Martin Frederick Wheelock (June 5, 1874 – May 25, 1937)[1] was an American college football player who achieved a national reputation while playing for the Carlisle Indian School from 1894 to 1902.

In 1913, coach Pop Warner named Wheelock to the All-Time American Indian Football Team.

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 students from 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.

He played on the renowned Carlisle teams of 1899-1902, which were coached by football legend Pop Warner.

[1] In 1897, Wheelock became one of the first football players to receive an x-ray to assess an injury, after being hurt in a game against Brown University.

The following account was published in newspapers across the country: "Martin Wheelock, right tackle of the Carlisle football eleven, a big Indian, six feet high, became acquainted with the latest acquisition to the white man's science, the X-ray, in the J.

He included such renowned players as Jim Thorpe, Jimmy Johnson, Bemus Pierce, Joe Guyon, and Albert Exendine.