were perishing, and the epic striving of the Carlisle Indians was a last great effort to reach the unattainable ..." Professional football After leaving Carlisle, Seneca briefly played professional football for the Greensburg Athletic Association in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. In an October 1900 game against Altoona, Seneca made several substantial gains, including a 25-yard run and a 50-yard touchdown run. During a game against Latrobe in 1900, a fight broke out between Seneca and Latrobe's quarterback, Al Kennedy. The crowd of 2,000 spectators joined in what one historic account has called "a general donnybrook." Later years Information on Seneca's later years is lacking, though a 1917 publication noted that a Carlisle graduate named Isaac Seneca was the head of the blacksmithing department at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School near Ponca City, Oklahoma. A 1928 article notes that Seneca is now "in the government service". At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Seneca was listed as a blacksmith working in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Seneca moved back to New York sometime between 1937 and 1940; at the time of the 1940 United States Census, he was living at the Cattaraugus Reservation, Erie County, New York, listed as widowed, working as a blacksmith. Isaac Seneca is interred at United Missions Cemetery at the Cattaraugus Reservation in the Seneca Nation, Erie County, New York. See also Benjey, Tom (2008). Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs: Jim Thorpe & Pop Warner's Carlisle Indian School football immortals tackle socialites, bootleggers, students, moguls, prejudice, the government, ghouls, tooth decay and rum, pp. 314–317. Tuxedo Press, . References 1874 births 1945 deaths Seneca people 19th-century players of American football Carlisle Indians football players Greensburg Athletic Association players All-American college football players People from Cattaraugus County, New York Players of American football from New York (state)