Baptiste Thunder

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

John Baptiste Thunder (February 23, 1891 - December 17, 1935) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League (NFL) 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]

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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]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Braunwart, Bob; Carroll, Bob; Horrigan, Joe. "The Oorang Indians" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Ancestors of John Baptiste THUNDER". Archived from the original on August 14, 2013.
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