Showing posts with label 1900-1920s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1900-1920s. Show all posts
1893 - 1917 The Carlisle Indians Football Team
... represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in intercollegiate football competitions for 25 years. It was an incredibly successful defunct major college football program, and was considered a national powerhouse of its time. The players regularly competed against Ivy League schools, and although they were outsized by their opposing teams, they were gifted athletes and highly competitive.
1900, November 17 - Talk about bad ass!
On November 17th, 1900, two trains collide, killing two men. The Carlisle Indian football team were riding on one of those trains, as they were en route to Philadelphia. They went on to play the University of Pennsylvania soon-after.
Doesn't like publishers depicting American Indians as blood-thirsty scalpers
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| The New York Times. July 1, 1910 |
1909 - first publication of the "Smoking the Pipe of Peace" at Miami University
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| 1888 - Nov. |
This tradition was first seen in a 1909 issue of The Miami Student.
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1910, Jan 16th - Spectators at an Indian ball game say brutal Sport.
Civil war veterans witness a contest at Sulphur while in reunion
there – played for ENTERTAINMENT.
Game is combination of
foot and base ball.
Two goals are arranged similar to football -- from 11 to 15 men play on each side.
Guthrie, Okla – When full-blood Indian men play ball they present
a grotesque sight. They strip to the waist and their brown bodies are greased
in order that they may more easily slip out of the grasp of their opponents.
Each Indian carries two clubs. Indian ball, or lacrosse, is as much the
national game of many tribes of the Indians as baseball is the white American’s
national sport today, and the game is particularly popular with all the five
civilized tribes in old Indian territory.
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1910, Feb 6 - "Red Skins" at Carlisle
The Carlisle Indian School will not have a baseball team this year. The fact has been established that the Red Skins are not adapted for the game. A Savage may be a perfectly good football player, but he is not cut out for baseball playing. A base ballist makes a fine Indian on occasions; but an Indian can never be a ball player.
1910, April 6th - Louis Sockalexis
Former Potter and old time Cleveland player put in much time together in Maine.
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1910, May 17th - the "Redskins' Scalp" pun was in full use.
At the time of this headline, scalping parties (where people went out to literally hunt for Native Americans in a coordinated effort to kill them - usually Apaches) existed. And yet ADAMS BOYS TAKE REDSKIN'S SCALPS was a pun used for sporting headlines.
But then again, people said these ball teams are meant to HONOR Native people and not exploit them as a Vanishing Race. Right?
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But then again, people said these ball teams are meant to HONOR Native people and not exploit them as a Vanishing Race. Right?
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1911 Jim Thorpe. This Indian the Athletic Marvel of the Age.
Click below to see this article - which is a full and amazing page!
1911, May 13th Indian favorite wins marathon. 28 minutes and 43 3-5 secongs.
Talyumptwea carries off classic event of state meet.
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1911, Jan 29th Colored League and loyal fans
Actual article below from IN THE WORLD OF SPORT.
More talk of Colored Baseball League.
More talk of Colored Baseball League.
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1911, Nov 11 Such puns! Carlisle and scalping. We get it, oh sportswriters.
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| The Indianapolis Star 11/11/1911 |
1911, July 13th Scalping the Haskell team
SOLDIERS HOME CLUB GETS SCALPS OF HASKELL TEAM.
"Nine braves from the Haskell Institute of Lawrence were scalped yesterday .... "
1911, July 18th - The Wild West
Native people were often put on display for Wild West shows, as the article states, "decked out in their bravest and most gorgeous apparel a curious crowd of all ages was gathered." ....
It is important to note that the "white children" were dressed as Indians, and the attire included: fringed hunting shirts, moccasins, and feathered headdresses. And the Boy Scouts were also there - and dressed up as Indians, no less.
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1911, Aug 24 - "Scalped by the Indians" headline... meaning, actual Indians in sports
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| Hopkinsville Kentuckian 8/24/1911 |
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