![]() Joe Pappio – second row middle Haskell Institute football team | |
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Position: | Offensive lineman |
Personal information | |
Born: | October 1, 1902 Sawyer, Minnesota, US |
Died: | August 22, 1971 | (aged 68)
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Weight: | 183 lb (83 kg) |
Career information | |
College: | Haskell Indian |
Career history | |
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Player stats at PFR |
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Joseph Pappio (October 1, 1902 – August 22, 1971) was a member of the Chippewa. Pappio attended and played college football at the Haskell Institute.
He was a professional football player in the National Football League during the 1923 season. That season, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians, a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe.[1] In 1924, Pappio played football for the Hominy Indians, an independent team from Hominy, Oklahoma, that too was composed entirely of Native Americans. In 1927 the Indians defeated the 1927 NFL champions, the New York Giants, 13–6.[citation needed] In 1930, Pappio returned to the NFL to play the 1930 season with the Chicago Cardinals.
References
- Whitman, Robert L. (1984). Jim Thorpe and the Oorang Indians: The N.F.L.'s Most Colorful Franchise. [Mount Gilead, OH]: Marion County Historical Society. OCLC 717439558.
- Uniform Numbers of the NFL
Notes
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
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