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1921, May 17 - As long as we're all entertained, who cares about risks and causalities?

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The Courier Gazette  May 17, 1921
In 1921 the Brown's all Indian ball players came to play an exhibition game against another team: the Tollohosse and the Eufoulo. But they aren't going to entertain the crowd with just an ordinary game... noooo.. they'll be playing in beech cloths, eagle feathers, and war paint. And though a rough form of the game has been outlawed due to the "large number of causalities," promoters were granted permissions for these players to run that risk and play the dangerous sport irregardless of the "causalities."
All for the entertainment of others... right?

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