Baptiste Thunder

John Baptiste Thunder (February 23, 1891 - December 17, 1935) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 season. That season, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. Thunder was a Chippewa.[1]

Baptiste Thunder
No. 16
Position:Tackle
Personal information
Born:February 23, 1891
Minnesota, United States
Died:December 17, 1935(1935-12-17) (aged 44)
Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota, United States
Height:5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight:215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
College:None
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR

Family

The son of Joseph Thunder and Nancy Greely, Baptiste was married three times. First he married Isabella Neadeau in 1913 with whom who he had four daughters from 1913 until 1919; Edna Victoria, Dorothy Louisa, Susan Alice and Margaret Josephine. In the early 1920s he married an unknown woman with whom he had a son, Ralph Jerome. In 1931, Thunder married his third wife, Rachel MacDonald, with whom he had four more children, John Baptiste, Joseph Marcell, Genevieve and Imogene Mable.[2]

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 2013-03-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://www.ojibwe.info/RedLake/HTML/people/p00000p3.htm#I12636
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