Tom Benjey

In Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs, Tom Benjey expanded the scope of his previous work, Keep A-Goin: The Life of Lone Star Dietz, to explore the lives of not just one of the Carlisle Indian School football immortals but the core group of men -- more than 50 all told -- who helped create the sport, both amateur and professional, we enjoy today. The issue for the Carlisle students of the competing visions of mainstreaming versus cultural retention for Native Americans in this country is one that Dr. Benjey explores in detail, the validities of which are still debated a century later.?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

[A] plethora of books have been written about the Carlisle team. In my opinion, none of them can match the exhaustive research, attention to detail and, most importantly, the accuracy of Dr. Benjey's book.

Robert W. Wheeler, author, Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest Athlete

*** This ebook is the story of one of those 50 men. The others’ stories can be found elsewhere in this ebook series. The overview chapters are in Carlisle Indian School Immortals: a brief introduction. ***

Tom has clearly become the foremost authority on the contribution of Native Americans to competitive athletics—most notably football and track and field-- in America. His recent book, Keep A goin’: The Life of Lone Star Dietz, is an excellent companion piece to two recently published best sellers regarding the Carlisle Indians.... Now—with Doctors, Lawyers Indian Chiefs, readers are introduced to the on and off the field accomplishments of great Native American athletes—not only the legendary Jim Thorpe but also notables like Frank Mount Pleasant, William Baine and Pete Hauser—whose stories are relatively unknown.?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

Bernie Kish, Ph.D., Executive Director, College Football Hall of Fame, 1995-2005

Much of the credit for this upsurge of interest [in Carlisle] goes to Dr. Tom Benjey - now the leading authority on the athletic history of the pre-World War I Pennsylvania school for Native Americans - who has written a number of articles about Carlisle topics, and this, his second book on the subject, is the most exhaustively researched and valuable of all his works.

Ray Schmidt, College Football Historical Society