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Show I 1 Oorang Indians Take The Trail O o o o o o o O O O O O O O O o Entire Tribe Seeks Grid Scalos i ; i Manhattan are right. Kedsklns still terrorize the region of Ohio. Whoever'd have supposed that, within a stone's throw of tho home of President Warren G. Harding, pow-wowed a powerful tribe, formed on union basis by premier members mem-bers of other tribes, all over everywhere' every-where' Tel 'tis true. Fourteen miles from Marlon h coterie of chieftains. averaging about 200 pounds apiece, and pos-aeasi pos-aeasi I of ravenous appetites, makes its home. luit's more, tho season has now arrived for this formidable aggregation aggrega-tion to sally forth, hunting scalps And a sight they arc, too, when they take the war trail! all done up In hideous orange and maroon the colors of the Oorang Indians In the National Professional Football 1 league. Gathering from all parts of the United States, the redskins have been gruelling dally at LftRue, unde- the leadership of Jim Thorpe, one of tho greatest all-round athletes the world ever has known. The National Football league of 20 teams Includes. besldcH the Ooranga, such elevens as the Chicago Cardinals and Bears, Minneapolis. Cleveland, Buffalo Milwaukee, Rochester. Roch-ester. N. Y ; Columbus, O, and various va-rious others. Some of these the Uorangs have yet to meet on the i field of battle this fall. JLM THORPE LEADS. It Is believed .that never before in the history of professional football foot-ball has such an organization of Indian In-dian stars been assembled as Jim Thorpe's. I Thorpe himself, a sensation of the I Olympic games at Stockholm, is still engaged actively In more tnan one form of sport. After a successful baseball season in the Eastern league h'o autoed to LaRue to assume as-sume command of the tribesmen gathered there. Besides Thorpe, two more former captains of Carlisle are Included In the lineup Joe Guyon and Pete Calac. Walter Camp considered all of these three as members of afl- Amerlca elevens a few years ago. Other members of tho team are: Attache, ot last year's Sherman College team; Long Time Sleep, of Haskell University and the Flathead reservation In Montana; St. Ger-malne, Ger-malne, of Carlisle and Yale; Bout-well. Bout-well. Sanook, Downwind, Busch, Lone Wolf, War Eagle. Running Deer. Strongwlnd, Big Bear and Thunder, all former Carlisle men. MASCOT A COYOTE. The squad mascot Is a pot coyoto. brought from Montana by Nicholas Lasso, better known as Long Time Sleep. It's a playful tribe, even when at work. Wrestling matches and long runs are the regular thing. It means nothing to the Indians to make a Jaunt on foot into Marion and back, a distance of 28 miles. The warriors eat but twice a day. Practice begins at noon and continues until evening, and It's then that the redskins have their second meal. The training camp and tho club- 1 house in which tho Indians live Is on the Oorang Airedale kennel farm of Walter Longo, chief sponsor of the eleven. |