Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang Indians (eBook)

How a Dog Kennel Owner Created the NFL's Most Famous Traveling Team

Chris Willis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
310 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7766-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book tells the little-known story of the Oorang Indians, a traveling professional football team comprised entirely of Native Americans. Created by dog kennel owner Walter Lingo and coached by star athlete Jim Thorpe, the team spent two seasons in the NFL in 1922 and 1923 traveling throughout the country and drawing crowds wherever they went.

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At the beginning of the Roaring Twenties the NFL was just a footnote within the landscape of American sports. The early pro game was played on dirt fields by vagabond athletes who would beat up or punch out their opponent for fifty dollars a game. But one team was different than the rest: the Oorang Indians. Comprised entirely of Native Americans and led by star athlete Jim Thorpe, the Oorang Indians were an instant hit in almost every city they visited.In Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang Indians: How a Dog Kennel Owner Created the NFLs Most Famous Traveling Team, NFL historian Chris Willis tells the story of this unique and fascinating part of professional football history. In 1922 Walter Lingo, a dog kennel owner from tiny La Rue, Ohio, joined forces with Jim Thorpe, the country's greatest athlete, to create the Oorang Indians. Willis recounts how Lingo used the football team, the star attraction of player-coach Thorpe, and the all Native-American squad to help advertise his kennel and sell dogs, putting the small town of La Rue on the map. With the complete cooperation of the Lingo family and unlimited access to family photos and archives, Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang Indians provides an up-close and behind-the-scenes view into the making of this little-known team. It is a remarkable story that will be enjoyed by football fans and historians alike.

Autor

Chris Willis is the Head of the Research Library at NFL Films, a position he has held since 1996. He is the author of multiple books on pro football, including The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr (2010), Dutch Clark: The Life of an NFL Legend and the Birth of the Detroit Lions (2012), and A Nearly Perfect Season: The Inside Story of the 1984 San Francisco 49ers (2014), all published by Rowman & Littlefield. In 2002 Willis was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the HBO Documentary “The Game of Their Lives: Pro Football in the 1950’s.” Willis was awarded the Professional Football Researchers Association’s Ralph Hay award for lifetime achievement in pro football research and historiography in 2012.

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: WALTER LINGO, LA RUE, OHIO, AND THE OORANG KENNELSChapter 1: The Lingo FamilyChapter 2: Walter LingoChapter 3: The Oorang Kennels and the Rise of the Oorang AiredalesChapter 4: A Genius of PromotionChapter 5: World War IChapter 6: Putting La Rue on the MapPART II: THE FOOTBALL TEAM: THE OORANG INDIANSChapter 7: The National Football LeagueChapter 8: The Great Jim ThorpeChapter 9: “The Idea”: Creating the NFL’s Most Famous Traveling TeamChapter 10: The Oorang IndiansPART III: THE FOOTBALL SEASONS, 1922–1923Chapter 11: Training Camp in La RueChapter 12: The 1922 NFL SeasonChapter 13: The 1923 NFL SeasonChapter 14: A Two-Year Experiment EndsPART IV: THE AFTERMATH FOR WALTER LINGO, JIM THORPE, AND THE OORANG INDIANSChapter 15: Athlete and Sportsman MagazineChapter 16: The Lingorue and the Demise of the Oorang KennelsChapter 17: Walter Lingo Rebuilds His Business and Good-bye to Jim ThorpeChapter 18: The Passing of the King of DogsChapter 19: Commemorating the Oorang IndiansChapter 20: The Legacy of Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang IndiansAPPENDIXES:A: Oorang Indians Game ResultsB: Oorang Indians All-Time Roster (1922–1923)C: Oorang Indians Box Scores (1922–1923)NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 32 Illustrations including: - 28 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 4 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Fahrrad
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1920s NFL • all Native American football team • American Football • American football history • American History • American Indians • Books about American History • Books about Native Americans • Books about The 1920s • Football • Football History • football in the 1920s • football in the 20s • jim thorpe • National Football League • native-american • Native American • Native American football team • Native-American football team • Native Americans in football • NFL • Oorang Indians • Oorang Indians 1922 • Professional Football • The 1920s • traveling football team • Walter Lingo
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-7766-1 / 1442277661
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7766-3 / 9781442277663