William "Ted" Francis Buffalo (November 5, 1901 – August 19, 1969) was a professional
football
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player who played in the
National Football League
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during the
1923 season.
Biography
Buffalo was born in
Red Cliff, Wisconsin
Red Cliff, also known as Gaa-Miskwaabikaang, is a Tribal Nation in the town of Russell, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. Red Cliff is the administrative center of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The reservation population ...
, and attended
Haskell Institute
Haskell Indian Nations University (Haskell or HINU) is a Public university, public tribal university, tribal land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for Native American children ...
(now Haskell Indian Nations University). In 1923, he joined the NFL's
Oorang Indians
The Oorang Indians () were a traveling team in the National Football League from LaRue, Ohio (near Marion). The franchise was a novelty team put together by Walter Lingo to market his Oorang (Airedale Terrier) dog kennels. All of the Indians ...
, a team based in
LaRue, Ohio
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which was composed of only
Native Americans. The team was coached by
Jim Thorpe
James Francis Thorpe (; May 22 or 28, 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional American football, football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was ...
. Buffalo played one season in the NFL. He was a
Chippewa and 23 years old when he joined the team.
He died on August 19, 1969, in
Washburn, Wisconsin
Washburn is a city and the county seat of Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,051 at the 2020 census. The city is just east of and adjacent to the Town of Washburn. It is in northern Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake S ...
.
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Further reading
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External links
Uniform Numbers of the NFL
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1901 births
1969 deaths
Native American players of American football
Players of American football from Wisconsin
People from Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Oorang Indians players
Haskell Indian Junior College alumni