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at 19, alum John Henry Wise - first native Hawaiian college football player - helped establish Oberlin’s inaugural football program Educated at the Hilo Boarding School & Kamehameha School for Boys, Wise traveled by boat to San Francisco and train across the US

after college, the Kapaau native went on to: - advocate for Hawaiian culture - serve as a senator - play a pivotal role in passing the 1921 Hawaiian Homeland Act - teach Hawaiian language at both the Kamehameha schools and the University of Hawaii

“I so love America, and I love Oberlin for giving me this education, but my heart belongs in Hawaii,” Wise wrote in a letter to his family upon his death, the University of Hawaii renamed an athletic field in his honor July 19, 1868-August 12, 1937