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Buck Jones (American football)
Horatio "White Cloud" Jones (October 23, 1888 – September 8, 1985) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 season.
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| Position: | End |
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| Born: | October 23, 1888 Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, New York |
| Died: | September 8, 1985 (aged 96)[1] Lewiston, New York |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) |
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| College: | Haskell Indian |
| Career history | |
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| Player stats at NFL.com · PFR | |
Biography
Jones was born on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation and attended Haskell Indian Nations University.[2] In 1922, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians for two games. The Indians were an early NFL franchise based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe.[3]
References
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2015-03-09. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ . databaseSports.com. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ^ (PDF). The Coffin Corner. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
Further reading
- 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.
External links
- Uniform Numbers of the NFL