Bill Winneshiek
| No. 3, 8 | |
|---|---|
| Position: | Guard |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | December 24, 1894 Winnebago County, Iowa |
| Died: | September 15, 1949 (aged 56) Wilmington, Delaware |
| Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Weight: | 180 lb (82 kg) |
| Career information | |
| College: | Carlisle Indian |
| Career history | |
| Oorang Indians (1922) | |
| Career NFL statistics | |
| Player stats at NFL.com · PFR | |
William Phineus Winneshiek, also spelled Winneshick and referred to as NahiSonwahika (December 24, 1892 – September 15, 1949), was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 season, at age 25. 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. Bill was a member of the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago tribe.[1]
His father helped him to attend
B-17 missions over Germany during World War II and culminating his military as Director of Communications at NORAD in Colorado Springs, CO.[2] They also had a daughter, Doris Winona Winneshiek who became a nurse and writer.[citation needed
]
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-27. Retrieved 2013-03-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Home of Bill Winneshiek".
External links
- 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
- http://hocak-nation.com/phineus.html
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