Joe Pappio
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Joe Pappio – second row middle
Haskell Indian Nations University football team
No. 33
Position:Offensive lineman
Personal information
Born:October 1, 1902
Sawyer, Minnesota, US
Died:August 22, 1971(1971-08-22) (aged 68)
Height:6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:183 lb (83 kg)
Career information
College:Haskell Indian
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR
Joe Pappio, in native regalia

Joseph Pappio (October 1, 1902 August 22, 1971) was a member of the Chippewa. Pappio attended and played college football at the Haskell Indian Nations University.

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. 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

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-27. Retrieved 2014-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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