Buck Jones (American football)

American football player (1888–1985)

American football player

Horatio Buck JonesNo. 30

Position:| End
Personal information
Born:| October 23, 1888
Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, New York
Died:| September 8, 1985(1985-09-08) (aged 96)[1]
Lewiston, New York
Height:| 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:| 210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
College:| Haskell Indian
Career history

* Oorang Indians (1922)

Career NFL statistics

Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

Horatio "White Cloud" Jones (October 23, 1888 – September 8, 1985) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 season.

## Biography[edit]

Jones was born on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation and attended Haskell Indian Nations University.[2] In 1922, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians for two games. The Indians were an early NFL franchise based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe.[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-09. Retrieved 2012-12-28.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ^ "NFL Players who attended Haskell Indian Nations University". databaseSports.com. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
3. ^ "The Oorang Indians" (PDF). The Coffin Corner. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2014.

## Further reading[edit]

* 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.

## External links[edit]

* Uniform Numbers of the NFL