Frank Hudson (1875 – December 24, 1950) was a football player and coach who was a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe from New Mexico.

The New York Times wrote that "little Hudson showed his ability as a kicker by dropping the ball squarely between the posts.

The spectators held their breath and watched the ball as it sailed on just over the heads of the Yale players and finally dropped over the bar.

The goal was one of the prettiest ever seen ..."[8] The success of the Carlisle football team was a source of great pride for Native Americans.

In 1897, the Indian Helper (the Carlisle school newspaper) described a celebration that greeted the football team on its return from a game played in New York City against Yale University:"On Monday morning after breakfast, the football team, who returned the evening before from the Yale game which was played at New York last Saturday, was treated to a free ride across the parade, in the large four horse herdic, drawn by the entire battalion.

The school is proud of the record made for clean playing, and were gratified that the boys scored.”[9]In 1898, Hudson became the captain of the Carlisle football team.

[11] At the conclusion of the 1898 season, he was selected as the first-team quarterback on Outing magazine's 1898 College Football All-America Team.

The Indians advanced the ball to Harvard's thirty-five-yard line, when Hudson dropped back for a goal from the field.

The 1899 Carlisle team drew further acclaim after defeating Columbia, 45–0, in a Thanksgiving Day game played at Manhattan Field near the Polo Grounds in New York.

[16] For the second consecutive year, he was selected as a first-team All-American on Outing magazine's 1899 College Football All-America Team.

[16] In 1900, Hudson secured a position with a bank in Pittsburgh, and played a season of professional football with that city's Duquesne Country and Athletic Club.

[20][21][22] In 1910, one sportswriter noted:"Frank Hudson, the greatest kicker, not barring Pat O'Dea, Marshall Reynolds, Billy Bull or John De Witt, who ever hoisted a spiral was an Indian.

[23] The national media covered the selection of non-whites to coach the Carlisle team as an experiment, with the Boston Daily Globe running a headline: "FULL BLOODED INDIANS Coaching a Football Team: Will they prove equal in brains and skill to the paleface gridiron strategists of the leading universities?

[18][28] In January 1904, the Red Man and Helper reported:"Frank Hudson is a principal clerk in a bank in Pittsburg.