Blogs about: Lone Star Dietz

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Redskins Named in Dietz's Honor

tombenjey wrote 2 weeks ago: Professor Joseph Gordon Hylton posed some opinions and asked a question with regard to the naming of … more →

Tags: Football, Haskell Institute, boston braves, Boston Redskins, George Preston Marshall, Redskins, Washington Redskins

Lone Star's Portrait

tombenjey wrote 3 weeks ago: Yesterday, I received n email from the son of Mary Lou Zientek with some photos attached. Mary Lou Z … more →

Tags: Carlisle Indian School, Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs, Football, Washington Redskins

Redskins Renamed 80 Years Ago4 comments

tombenjey wrote 3 months ago: Earlier this week, I received a totally unexpected call from a reporter from the Washington Examiner … more →

Tags: Carlisle Indian School, Football, Redskins

Dietz's Incarceration1 comment

tombenjey wrote 5 months ago: One of the several mysteries surrounding Lone Star Dietz is what transpired between the time he surr … more →

Tags: Football, Carlisle Indian School, hoosegow, WWI hysteria, sedition, Draft Dodger

Guiding The White Brethren

tombenjey wrote 6 months ago: The electronic version of the Fall 2012 edition of the magazine for the National Museum of the Ameri … more →

Tags: Albert Exendine, Bemus Pierce, Caleb Sickles, Carlisle Indian School, Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs, Football, Frank Cayou, Frank Mt. Pleasant, Gus Welch

Lone Star Dietz Article in Indian Country Today

tombenjey wrote 9 months ago: Yesterday’s edition of Indian Country Today includes an article by Jack McNeel on Lone Star Dietz. T … more →

Tags: Football, Carlisle Indian School, washington state university, Rose Bowl, College Football Hall of Fame, tournament of roses, Pasadena, Jack McNeel, Indian Country Today

Carlisle Has as Many Hall of Famers as Miami

tombenjey wrote 10 months ago: Well, it finally happened. Lone Star Dietz was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame last w … more →

Tags: Jim Thorpe, Pop Warner, Football, Carlisle Indian School, Albert Exendine, Gus Welch, Ed Rogers, James Johnson, Joe Guyon

400th Post - Paterno Loses Halo & Dietz Vindicated

tombenjey wrote 10 months ago: WordPress tells me that this is my 400th message. At about 300 words each, that comes to 120,000 wor … more →

Tags: Football, Carlisle Indian School, Joe Paterno, Clery Act, Paternoville, nittanyville, sandusky, Spanier

Carlisle Indians as Coaches

tombenjey wrote 11 months ago: While preparing the 1911 Spalding’s Guide for printing, I noticed that some former Carlisle players … more →

Tags: Albert Exendine, Bemus Pierce, Caleb Sickles, Carlisle Indian School, Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs, Ed Rogers, Football, Frank Cayou, Frank Mt. Pleasant

Lone Star Dietz Artwork

tombenjey wrote 11 months ago: A question that has come up recently is where Lone Star Dietz’s artwork can be purchased, because he … more →

Tags: Football, Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs, Albright College, Cumberland County Historical Society, Joel Platt, Sports Immortals, Francine Scoboria, dick riffle, Lewis Smith

Lone Star Gets His Due

tombenjey wrote 12 months ago: Tonight, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, DC holds a reception to ki … more →

Tags: Jim Thorpe, Football, Carlisle Indian School, washington state university, Washington Redskins, Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs, College Football Hall of Fame, Lewis Tewanima, Joe Paterno

Artichoke Played for Carlisle

tombenjey wrote 1 year ago: I thought I’d continue with the theme of Carlisle Indians who played football in WWI by looking thro … more →

Tags: Carlisle Indian School, Charles Guyon, Chauncey Archiquette, Football, Haskell Institute, Joe Guyon, washington state university, Artichoke, Base Section 5

Hawkeagle Also Played in 1917

tombenjey wrote 1 year ago: Page 110 includes headshots of soldiers who played on the Camp Funston (Fort Riley, Kansas) football … more →

Tags: Pop Warner, Football, Carlisle Indian School, washington state university, John B. Flinchum, Mike Balenti, pretty boy, War Eagle!, Thomas Hawkeagle

Was Wahoo Really Present?2 comments

tombenjey wrote 1 year ago: Beginning on page 7, Camp discussed three unbeaten eastern teams, two of which had ties to Carlisle. … more →

Tags: Carlisle Indian School, Charles Guyon, Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs, Football, Joe Guyon, Pete Calac, Pop Warner, William Gardner, Dick Jemison

Differences Between Warner's 1912 Book and Spalding's Ad Copy

tombenjey wrote 1 year ago: The title of Warner’s 1912 book varies from the title in the advertisement in the 1912 Spalding’s Gu … more →

Tags: Pop Warner, Football, Carlisle Indian School

More About Warner's 1912 Book1 comment

tombenjey wrote 1 year ago: The endorsements at the bottom of the 1912 ad were the same as previously: one from Walter Camp and … more →

Tags: Jim Thorpe, Pop Warner, Football, Carlisle Indian School, Gus Welch, Frank Mt. Pleasant, Walter Camp, Parke H. Davis, 1912 Spalding's Guide

Even More 1903 Carlisle Stars

tombenjey wrote 1 year ago: Ed Rogers and James Phillips weren’t the only Carlisle Indians to play for a future Big Ten team in … more →

Tags: Pop Warner, Football, Carlisle Indian School, William Baine, James Phillips, Ed Rogers, Bemus Pierce, James Johnson, Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs

The Little Buffalo Robe

tombenjey wrote 1 year ago: The last few days have been spent cleaning up the scanned PDF of The Little Buffalo Robe, a task tha … more →

Tags: Carlisle Indian School, Angel DeCora, pawnee, Omaha, assiniboine, Dakota, Ruth Everett Beck, Paul Ward Beck

Photos of Paintings on Deerskin

tombenjey wrote 1 year ago: One of my earliest blogs, posted on April 4, 2008, was titled “Deerskin Paintings.” The post include … more →

Tags: Pittsburgh, Deerskin paintings, Barr Shriver


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