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Photograph features the 1912 Carlisle Indians football team. The players are situated in 3 rows. In the top row is Gus Welch and Jim Thorpe, the second and third players from the left. Reverse side of photograph has printed note taped onto the paper that identifies the players by last name in each row.

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Scanned image of original photograph. Photograph features 1912 Carlisle Indians football team. The players are situated in 3 rows. Gus Welch is the fourth player from the left in the middle row. The first player in the first row is Jim Thorpe. Reverse side of photograph has handwritten notation identifying the team and location of Gus Welch and Jim Thorpe.

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Photograph features 5 men standing in a line wearing sports attire. The second man from the left is Gus Welch. Printed notation on page reads: "Relay Team, 1913". Reverse side of page features a photograph of the 1913 Carlisle lacrosse team, but there is a penciled X over the image.

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Photograph features 7 men in two rows wearing sports attire. Gus Welch is standing furthest to the right in the back row. Printed notation on page reads: "The Track Team 1913". Reverse side of page has different Carlisle team records for 1913, but there is a penciled X over the writing.

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List compiled by the Native American Information.

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List developed by the Native American Information Center in conjunction with Dr. Rayna Green, American Association for the Advancement of Science and others.

Content Description From the Collection:

Correspondence and clippings from and about Gustavus Gus Welch (1892-1970) a full blood Chippewa born in Spooner, Wisconsin, was a member of the Carlisle Indian School Class of 1911, Jim Thorpe's quarterback for the professional football team the Ohio Bulldogs in Canton, Ohio, a member of the U. S. Track Team for the 1912 Olympics, a 1917 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law and a coach at a number of institutions.

Scope and Contents From the File: An artificial collection that consists of materials pertaining to Oklahoma and Oklahomans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is not part of any other collection.The Oklahoma Collection subsumes the old Oklahoma Ephemera, Oklahoma Historical Photos and Docs and Oklahoma Maps collections. Ephemera was a remnant of the McFarlin Reference Department's vertical files, the larger portion having been sent to the Tulsa City-County Library, which was kept during the late 1940s...

Content Description From the Collection:

Correspondence and clippings from and about Gustavus Gus Welch (1892-1970) a full blood Chippewa born in Spooner, Wisconsin, was a member of the Carlisle Indian School Class of 1911, Jim Thorpe's quarterback for the professional football team the Ohio Bulldogs in Canton, Ohio, a member of the U. S. Track Team for the 1912 Olympics, a 1917 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law and a coach at a number of institutions.

Content Description From the Collection:

Correspondence and clippings from and about Gustavus Gus Welch (1892-1970) a full blood Chippewa born in Spooner, Wisconsin, was a member of the Carlisle Indian School Class of 1911, Jim Thorpe's quarterback for the professional football team the Ohio Bulldogs in Canton, Ohio, a member of the U. S. Track Team for the 1912 Olympics, a 1917 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law and a coach at a number of institutions.