Frank Mount Pleasant

Who was Frank Mount Pleasant?

Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant, Jr. was an American football player, track and field athlete, and college athletics coach. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and at Dickinson College, and made the 1904 and 1908 US Olympic track teams, placing sixth in the triple jump and long jump at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Mount Pleasant served as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College, Indiana Normal School, now Indiana University of Pennsylvania, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and the University at Buffalo. After World War I, in which he served as a first lieutenant, he settled in Buffalo, New York, where he worked at odd jobs for the rest of his life.