The Haskell Fighting Indians football team represented the Haskell Institute (Later known as Haskell Indian Nations University.) in the sport of college football.[1] They fielded their first football team in 1896.[2] From the 1900s to the 1930s, Haskell’s football program was referred to as the “Powerhouse of the West,” playing teams from Harvard, Yale, Brown, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma A&M, Wisconsin and Minnesota.[3] But in 1931, a new superintendent (R. D. Baldwin) made the decision to shift the college football team to high school status following the 1931 season. With fewer teams available to play, Haskell dropped football after the 1938 season.[2] Football at Haskell would not be resumed again until 1990.[citation needed]
Due to funding shortfalls, Haskell suspended football for the 2015 season.[4]
- ^ http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH2001/JSH2803/JSH2803f.pdf
- ^ a b Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930 - Raymond Schmidt - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- ^ "Haskell Indian Nations University Commemorates 125th Anniversary, Recognizes Painful History - Higher Education". Diverseeducation.com. 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- ^ http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/may/21/haskell-suspends-football-program-2015-season/