January 18 Football Fix

“(Pop) Warner said he had arranged for them to go there and play baseball in the summer to keep in shape. They were just Indian kids, what did they know? When Warner told them something, they did it. When the Scandal broke, Warner disclaimed any knowledge of it. If he had stepped forward and told the whole story, there’s a good chance Thorpe would have been cleared right there.” ~ Robert W. Wheeler after he helped the Thorpe family have Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic Medals restored by the International Olympic Committee after being stripped of them 70 years earlier for making $2 a game playing baseball which allegedly stripped his amateur status.