Chief Xavier Downwind aka Red Fang was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 and 1923 seasons. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian School, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, before joing the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. Downwind was a Chippewa. [1]

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Family

The son of James Mayshuckkence Downwind, Xavier was married twice. First he married Katie Isabelle and who he had a child with in 1919, Paul Xavier Downwind. In the mid 1920's he married Rose Eliza Smith. Between 1927 and 1945, Xavier and Rose had seven children; Xavier Francis, Rupert, Herman, Winnifred, Ruth Arlean, Anna Margaret and Leo Harold Lee. ^[2] He also had at least two grandchildren Cindy and Arlene. ^[3]

References

1. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/03-01-057.pdf
2. http://www.ojibwe.info/Ojibwe/HTML/people/p0000132.htm#I3813
3. http://www.rlnn.com/Classics001/XavierDownwind.html