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My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw. [18] Thorpe was a third-team All-American in 1908 [26] and a first-team All-American in 1911 and 1912. [5] Football was – and remained – Thorpe's favorite sport. [27]
Beamus Pierce aka Eagle Feather (May 7, 1895 – March 10, 1950) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 and 1923 seasons. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian School , located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania , before joining the NFL's Oorang Indians .
Herman Peter Hauser (June 10, 1887 – July 21, 1935) was a United States Native American football player. He played for the Haskell Indians football team from 1904 to 1905 and for the Carlisle Indians football team from 1906 to 1910 and was selected as a consensus first-team fullback on the 1907 College Football All-America Team. He was a ...
Category: Native American players of American football. 2 languages. ... This page was last edited on 23 December 2024, at 15:48 (UTC).
Jan. 26—When Los Alamos resident Mike Katko set out to write his first novel, he initially planned to base it off the life of one of his heroes, Native American NFL player Jim Thorpe. However ...
Ryneldi Becenti, first Native American to play in the WNBA, [46] first Native American woman to play professional basketball for a foreign nation [47] Joe Burton, first Native American to earn a scholarship to a Pac-10 conference [48] Sonny Dove, Wampanoag N.B.A. basketball player Detroit Pistons and New York Nets
Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant Jr. (June 13, 1884 – April 12, 1937) was a Native American football player, track and field athlete, and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and Dickinson College and graduated from Dickinson in 1910. He was the first Native American to ...
His first run from scrimmage for Tech was a 75-yard touchdown against Wake Forest. [ 13 ] In a 63–0 rout of Washington & Lee , Guyon knocked a Washington & Lee player out of the game by "wearing an old horse collar shaped into a shoulder pad but reinforced with a little steel" according to Judy Harlan.