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• 0:58
  Tokyo, 1964 Australia's world record holder is the man to beat in the Olympic 10,000 meters.
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  An American runner, hardly anyone's pick for gold, is barely hanging on.
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  The leaders surge into the final lap.
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  He is boxed in with runners all around him.
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  There are only a few hundred meters left.
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  Can he find a way through?
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  This story and more coming up on.
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  This Week in Indian All Stars history.
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  Welcome to Indian All Stars.
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  I'm Bill Black, and every week we travel back to discover how Native athletes helped shape the world of sports.
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  Because history isn't trapped behind museum glass, it comes alive.
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  Indian All Stars celebrates great Native American athletes from the past and the present, bringing these great All Stars back into the spotlight for new generations.
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  Now let's look back and find out what happened.
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  Here's what happened the week of October 11 through October 17 in Indian All Stars history.
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  The week of October 7 opens in 1913 with Ojibwe pitcher Charles Bender celebrating his third World Series championship.
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  His Philadelphia Athletics defeat the New York Giants four games to one.
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  Eddie Plank pitches the clincher, but Bender contributes two complete game victories to the championship, adding 1913 to his titles from 1910 and 1911.
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  Jump ahead to 1936 Narragansett marathoner Ellison Tarzan Dan Brown wins the Port Chester National Marathon in New York in 2 hours, 36 minutes and 56.7 seconds.
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  Brown defeats defending national marathon champion Pat Dingis by more than half a minute, then immediately heads for New Hampshire to race another marathon the following Morning in 1956.
• 2:47
  Defensive back Mel Davis, Muskogee and Kiowa faces a turning point in his football career.
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  The Detroit Lions released him after two games following his return from military service.
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  Davis says racial discrimination plays a part in the decision, recalling that the team tells him it has no other black player to room with him on the road.
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  The experience closes his chapter in Detroit, but not his NFL career.
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  He goes on to become an All Pro and championship player with the Baltimore Colts in 1962.
• 3:16
  Jim Nielsen Big River Cree makes his National Hockey League debut for the New York Rangers against the Detroit Red Wings at Madison Square Garden.
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  It is Nielsen's first step onto the Rangers blue line, where he will become a fixture for 12 seasons before his NHL career is finished in 1970.
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  Reggie Leach, an Ojibwe winger, makes his NHL debut at Boston Garden, where the Boston Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings 7 3.
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  It is the first NHL appearance for a young player who will go on to win a Stanley cup and the Conn Smythe Trophy and establish himself among hockey's great goal scorers.
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  Then in 1972, Jung bench leads off the bottom of the 9th inning of the deciding game 5 of the National League Championship Series with a game tying home run off Pittsburgh reliever Dave Jiusti.
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  The Cincinnati Reds score again later in the inning to win 4:3 and capture the National League pennant.
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  Facing elimination and three outs from the end of the season, Bench changes the game with one swing.
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  Three years later in 1975, Chippewa Cree and Metis center Brian Troutier scores the first three goals of his NHL career and adds two assists against the Los Angeles Kings.
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  In only his second NHL game, the 19 year old delivers a hat trick and five points, announcing the arrival of one of the league's great young Centers.
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  Also in 1975, Cherokee quarterback Sonny Sixkiller plays the final regular season professional football game of his career.
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  The World Football League's Hawaiian's defeat beat the Philadelphia Bell 1413 in Honolulu.
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  The Hawaiians are struggling financially and the World Football League is beginning to unravel.
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  When the club asks Sixkiller and fellow quarterback Rick Casada to accept major pay cuts, both leave.
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  Sixkiller's final professional game ends with a victory jumping ahead to 1990 Carlisle football standout Isaac Seneca is named to Athlon's all time American Indian College football team.
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  The honor recognizes the Seneca athlete's place among the great Native players in college football history.
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  More than 90 years after his Walter Camp First Team All America season at Carlisle.
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  In 1997, Apache grappler Frank Shamrock faces Dan Henderson in a professional submission grappling match at the contenders.
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  Shamrock catches Henderson in a heel hook in under a minute.
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  Henderson will go on to become a two division Pride champion.
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  The crossover victory is not an MMA bout, but it is a strong snapshot of Shamrock's elite submission ability against another future combat sports legend.
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  In 2003, Navajo driver Corey Witherill finishes third in the season ending Dreamerscandles.com 100 at Texas Motor Speedway and ends the year fifth in the Infinity Pro Series championship standings.
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  In 2009, Cherokee golfer Tiger woods finishes a perfect 50 at Harding park as the United States wins the President's Cup.
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  He becomes only the third player in President's cup history to win all five of his matches in a single event.
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  In 2010, Choctaw quarterback Brett Favre becomes the first player in National Football League history to throw 500 career touchdown passes.
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  Favre reaches number 500 on a 37 yard touchdown to Randy Moss against the New York jets and in the same game becomes the first quarterback to surpass 70,000 career passing yards at Baylor in 2014, Chickasaw quarterback Bryce Petty
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  throws for a career high 510 yards and six touchdowns as the Baylor Bears rally to defeat the ninth ranked TCU Horned Frogs 61 to 58.
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  Petty ties Baylor's single game record for touchdown passes while the Bears erase a 21 point fourth quarter deficit and score the final 24 points in one of the biggest wins of his career.
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  That same year, Dak Prescott Choctaw Apache leads the Mississippi State Bulldogs past the second ranked Auburn Tigers 3823 in a showdown of unbeaten teams.
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  Prescott rushes for 121 yards and two touchdowns as the Bulldogs improved to 60 after three straight victories over top 10 opponents, completing one of the greatest three week runs in school history.
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  Also in 2014, Navajo and Pueblo golfer Nota Begay III is inducted into the Stanford Athletics hall of Fame.
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  At Stanford, he earns three All America selections and helps win the 1994 National Collegiate Team Championship.
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  In 2019, Oglala Lakota fighter David Bulldog Michaux wins twice in one night at the Professional Fighters League Welterweight Playoffs in Las Vegas.
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  Seated fifth, Michaux first defeated defeats four seeded John Howard by unanimous decision, then returns later that night to upset number one seed Glaco Franca by majority decision.
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  Two victories in one evening send him to the Professional Fighters League Welterweight Championship final with a million dollar prize on the line.
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  In 2020, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott Choctaw Apache suffers a serious right ankle injury against the New York Giants.
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  The fracture and dislocation require surgery and end his season.
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  What follows is a long rehabilitation and a return to the field.
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  Now we move to October 12th.
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  In 1936, Narragansett marathoner Ellison Tarzan Brown wins the New England Marathon Championship in Manchester, New Hampshire one day after winning the Port Chester Marathon.
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  The back to back marathon victories become one of the most remarkable endurance feats of Brown's career and answer critics who question his toughness.
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  After the Berlin Olympics, jump ahead to 1954 and Louis Tuanema, the Hopi distance running hero is honored at New York's Waldorf Astoria as a member of America's all time Olympic track and field team.
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  At the banquet, he is photographed with two time Olympic decathlon champion Bob Mathias.
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  More than four decades after Tuanima's own Olympic performances in Stockholm in 1963, 18 year old warm Springs jockey Martinez Marty he wins an extraordinary seven races on a single card at Fresno, California.
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  The seven win day becomes one of the signature accomplishments of his 25 year riding career.
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  Let's move ahead to 1976 where Choctaw slugger Johnny Bench hits a ninth inning home run as the Cincinnati Reds rally to beat The Philadelphia Phillies 76 and sweep the National League Championship Series.
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  After George Foster homers to cut the deficit, Bench Bench follows with a blast that ties the game.
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  The Reds finish the comeback moments later and head back to the World Series with another dramatic Bench postseason home run in the books.
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  In 1980, quarterback Jim Plunkett, Cherokee, makes his first start for the Oakland Raiders and leads them to a 3824 victory over the San Diego Chargers.
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  Plunkett completes 11 of 14 passes for 164 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions.
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  The win begins the remarkable comeback run that carries Oakland all the way to a Super bowl championship.
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  Then in 2006, Cherokee and Pueblo receiver Hank Basket earns Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week honors with the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  The Honor follows his 112 yard performance and 87 yard touchdown in the Philadelphia Eagles victory over the Dallas Cowboys two seasons later in 2008, Basket catches four passes for 38 yards and a touchdown as the Philadelphia Eagles rally
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  to defeat The San Francisco 49ers 40 26.
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  Basket scores on a two yard reception in the second quarter before the Philadelphia Eagles erase a fourth quarter deficit with 23 unanswered points.
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  In 2014, Bryce Petty, Chickasaw, is named Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the week after his 510 yard six touchdown performance against the TCU Horned Frogs.
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  Petty also receives Athlon National Player of the Week recognition for the comeback victory.
• 11:27
  Then in 2020 on Indigenous peoples Day, a monument honoring Penobscot baseball legend Lewis Sockalexis is unveiled at Purnell Wrigley Field in Waterville, Maine.
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  Ralph Thomas, a Penobscot relative of Sock Alexis, participates in the ceremony and throws out the first pitch.
• 11:45
  In 2022, Columbus, Mississippi dedicates Henry Armstrong Way in honor of its hometown boxing champion.
• 11:52
  A section of 3rd Street north receives Armstrong's name, giving his hometown a permanent public tribute to its legendary boxing champion.
• 12:01
  Moving to 2025 Lumbee receiver Keenan Allen makes his 400th career catch from quarterback Justin Herbert during a game against the Miami Dolphins.
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  Combined with 520 career receptions from Philip Rivers, Allen becomes the first player in NFL history with at least 400 catches from two different quarterbacks.
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  Also in 2025, Mohawk lacrosse player Justin Martin wins a bronze medal with the Haudenosaunee Nationals at the World Lacrosse Super Sixes tournament in Oshawa Ontario Haudenosaunee holds off Australia 14:13 in the bronze medal game, giving Martin another international
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  medal in the 6 on 6 discipline that is headed to the Olympic Games.
• 12:43
  October 13th begins in 1897 when Chippewa running back George Shilafo breaks a 35 yard touchdown run as the Latrobe Athletic association shuts out Pittsburgh College 22 0.
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  Shilafo has just been recruited from Carlisle to win Reinforce La Trobe, the first football team made entirely of professional players to play a full season.
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  This makes him the first recorded Native American to play professional football.
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  His 35 yard scoring run is the clearest surviving individual highlight of his professional career and places a Chippewa Carlisle alumnus directly inside one of pro football's foundational seasons at Minnesota.
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  In 1923, Arapaho football star John Levi returns a second half kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown as Haskell battles Minnesota and Minneapolis.
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  Levi's burst turns a 130 game into a one point thriller.
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  Haskell ultimately falls 13 12, but Twin Cities coverage praises the 190 pound back as one of the fastest players of his size in college football.
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  The welterweight title is on the line in 1939 when Henry Armstrong Iroquois knocks out Howard Scott in the second round and Minneapolis to retain the world Welterweight Championship.
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  That is the second stop in an astonishing stretch in which Armstrong makes five welterweight title defenses in just 21 days.
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  Three years later in 1942, Armstrong knocks out Juan Zarita in the second round in Los Angeles.
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  Six years after their first meeting, Armstrong again stops the future world lightweight champion in 1951.
• 14:17
  Creek quarterback Jack Jacobs throws four touchdown passes against Saskatchewan and reaches the 30 touchdown mark, becoming the first quarterback in professional football history to throw 30 touchdown passes in one season.
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  He finishes 1951 with 33 touchdown passes and 3,248 passing yards.
• 14:37
  In the 1978 World Series, New York needs a win and Yankees shortstop Bucky Dent Cherokee drives in the eventual winning run as the New York Yankees Yankees defeat The Los Angeles Dodgers 51 in Game 3 of the World
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  Series.
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  The Yankees enter the night trailing two games to none.
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  Dent brings home Greg nettles in the second inning for a 20 lead and Los Angeles manages only one run as New York begins a four game winning streak that turns the series around.
• 15:07
  In 1982, Sac and Fox All World athlete Jim Thorpe has his Olympic honors restored by a vote of the International Olympic Committee.
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  Nearly 70 years after his pentathlon and decathlon victories are removed from the record books, the IOC restores Thorpe as a co champion in both events, sharing the pentathlon title with Ferdinand Bay and the decathlon title with Hugo Weaslander.
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  The vote is a major correction, but not yet the final one.
• 15:32
  In 2002, Brett Favre throws the 300th touchdown pass of his NFL career.
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  Favre connects with Aman Green for the milestone score against the New England Patriots, joining the small group of quarterbacks who have reached 300 career touchdown passes.
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  Also in 2002, Turtle Mountain Chippewa tight end Jim Kleinsasser catches the first receiving touchdown of his NFL career in the Minnesota Vikings 3124 victory over Detroit.
• 15:59
  Dante Culpepper finds Kleinsasser for a one yard score in the second quarter, giving his him the second of his seven career NFL touchdowns.
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  In 2004, Wes Welker, Cherokee, earns American Football Conference Special Teams Player of the Week honors.
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  The award recognizes his remarkable emergency kicking and return performance for the Miami Dolphins against the New England Patriots in 2008.
• 16:24
  Columbus, Mississippi officially honors boxing champion Henry Armstrong with Henry Armstrong Day.
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  The city celebrates one of boxing's greatest champions and recognizes his lasting connection to his hometown at California in 2011, Keenan Allen Lumby catches 13 passes for 160 yards against the USC Trojans.
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  His 13 receptions tie for third on California's single game list at the time.
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  Allen is also the only Pac 12 receiver that season with three games of at least 160 receiving yards.
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  Also in 2011, Navajo center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury is named the American League Comeback Player of the Year after injuries limit him to only 18 games.
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  In 2010, Ellsbury returns to play 158 games and post career highs across the board in one of the greatest seasons by a Red Sox center fielder.
• 17:17
  In 2012, Brandon Bam Bam Rios meets unbeaten Mike Alvarado at the Home Depot center in one of the defining fights of his career.
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  The two trade heavy shots at close range until Rios hurts Alvarado with a right hand and pours on the pressure.
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  In the seventh round, the referee stops the fight at 1 minute 57 seconds.
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  Rios wins the vacant WBO Latino junior welterweight title and Sports Illustrated names the battle its 2012 Fight of the Year.
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  That same year on the football field, Lumbee receiver KEENAN Allen catches 11 points, passes for 166 yards and a touchdown as the California Golden Bears defeat the Washington State Cougars 31 17.
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  His 69 yard touchdown is Allen's longest reception of the season and the performance gives him another standout game in his final season at California.
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  At Denver in 2013 Wes Welker, Cherokee, scores against the Jacksonville Jaguars and becomes the first player in NFL history to catch a touchdown pass in each of his first six games with a new team.
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  The record extends a remarkable opening run to his first season with the Denver Broncos.
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  Also in 2014, Chickasaw quarterback Bryce Petty is named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week and Davey O' Brien National Quarterback of the Week.
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  The honors follow his 510 yard six touchdown comeback performance against nationally ranked TCU.
• 18:41
  In 2018, Oglala Lakota distance runner Billy Mills is inducted into the inaugural class of the National Native American hall of Fame during its first induction ceremony.
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  Mills enters alongside 11 other historic Native leaders and achievers, including fellow athletic legend Jim Thorpe, securing his place in the Hall's first ever class.
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  Also in 2018, David Bulldog, Michaux Oglala Lakota stops Fernando Gonzalez Trevino with punches in the second round at Combat Americas Mexico versus usa.
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  The victory gives Michaud back to back knockout or technical knockout wins and keeps the momentum building toward his biggest professional season.
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  That same year, Blackfeet boxer Billy Wagner makes a winning professional debut at Coeur d' Alene Casino in Idaho, earning a four round unanimous decision over Andrew Whitfield.
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  Wagner scores two knockdowns in the opening round and another late in the fourth, taking the judges cards 38 36, 3836 and 3835 to begin his paid career 1 0.
• 19:43
  In 2018, Cherokee quarterback Mason Fine becomes North Texas all time career leader in pass completions during a 37 victory over Southern Miss.
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  Fine moves past Derek Thompson and Mitch Marr and finishes the day with 653 career complete completions, adding another major school record during his junior season on the velodrome.
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  In 2022, Oneida cyclist Shayna Paulus becomes the first tribally affiliated woman to race for the United States at the Union Cyclist International Track World Championships.
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  Palace joins Megan Gastrab, Colleen Gulick and Lily Williams in the first round of the women's team pursuit at St.
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  Quentin and Yvelines, France as Team USA first finishes eighth.
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  This is Palace's seventh World Championship selection across cycling disciplines, but her first on the track.
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  In the same season, she begins racing on the velodrome.
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  Now we're up to October 14th.
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  In 1899, Seneca football star Isaac Seneca helps Carlisle defeat Pennsylvania 165 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
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  The victory gives Carlisle its first win over one of college football's dominant Big Four programs, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn.
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  Seneca is one of the principal backs on the Carlisle team that soon establishes itself among the strongest teams in the country.
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  Then, in 1905, Ojibwe pitcher Charles Bender faces Christy Mathewson with the Philadelphia Athletics season on the line in Game five of the World Series.
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  Bender pitches a complete game and allows only two runs, but Mathewson throws his third shutout of the series and New York wins 20 to claim the championship.
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  Even in defeat, Bender stands toe to toe with one of the era's greatest pitchers on baseball's biggest stage.
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  Six years later, in 1911, Bender meets Mathewson again in Game 1 of the World Series.
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  In a classic pitchers duel, bender allows only five hits, gives up two runs, just one earned and strikes out 11.
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  But New York wins 2 1.
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  Giants catcher John Tortes Myers Ku Weah doubles in the seventh and scores the winning run.
• 21:46
  Two native stars stand on opposite sides of the same World Series drama for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1950.
• 21:54
  Creek quarterback Jack Jacobs throws two touchdown passes to Tommy Ford and scores another touchdown on a hidden ball play as Winnipeg shuts out the Saskatchewan Rough Riders 230 and clinches first place in the Western Interprovincial Football Union.
• 22:08
  Then comes Tokyo 1964 and the answer to our opening teaser.
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  Oglala Lakota runner Billy Mills is chasing an Olympic gold medal few believe he can win.
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  Running against world record holder Ron Clark of Australia and Tunisia's Mohamed Gamoudi, Mills surges through traffic in the final stretch and explodes past Gamoudi to win the Olympic 10,000 meters in 28 minutes, 24.4 seconds.
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  The time is an Olympic record nearly 50 seconds faster than his previous best.
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  Mills becomes the first American to win Olympic gold in the 10,000 meters at Edmonton in 1981.
• 22:45
  Enoch Cree goaltender Grant Fuer makes his National Hockey League debut for the Edmonton oilers, launching a 19 season career that eventually takes him to the Hockey hall of fame in 1984.
• 22:58
  The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres 8 to 4 in Game 5 to claim the World Series.
• 23:04
  Yavapai veteran Daryl Evans is part of Detroit's championship roster, winning the title in his 16th major league season.
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  Lumbee catcher Dwight Lowry contributes during the regular season, although he is not on the postseason roster.
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  Detroit takes the series four games to one at Southern Miss in 1989.
• 23:22
  Brett Favre of Choctaw produces one of the most famous endings in Southern Miss football history against Louisville.
• 23:28
  With time expiring, Favre launches a desperation pass that is tipped and caught by Daryl Tillman for the winning touchdown.
• 23:35
  Southern miss wins 1610 on the play remembered as the miracle of Louisville Fast forward to 2012 when Wes Welker Cherokee reaches 100 straight regular season games with at least one reception.
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  The streak reflects the extraordinary durability and consistency that define the middle of his NFL career.
• 23:55
  In 2013, Chargers rookie Keenan Allen catches nine passes for 107 yards and a receiving touchdown for the San Diego Chargers against the Indianapolis colts in a 199 victory.
• 24:07
  Allen follows his breakout in Oakland with another 100 yard night, giving the Chargers rookie consecutive 100 yard receiving games with the clock running down in 2017, North Carolina Texas quarterback Mason Fine Cherokee engineers a 98 yard game winning
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  drive with a minute and seven seconds remaining as the North Texas Mean Green defeat The UTSA Roadrunners 2926 with no timeouts in North Texas.
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  Starting at its own two yard line, Fine drives the Mean Green the length of the field and throws the winning 22 yard touchdown pass with 10 seconds remaining.
• 24:44
  In European basketball in 2018, Ho Chunk guard Bronson Koenig scores 23 points as Mornard defeats Partizan 9794 In ABA league play in Bar Montenegro, Koenig plays 31 minutes and 41 seconds, makes four three pointers and adds four rebounds
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  and five assists in Mornar's first home ABA league win of the season.
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  Now it's October 15th in 1898.
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  Isaac Seneca, a Seneca athlete at Carlisle, helps Carlisle defeat Williams 176 with contemporary coverage crediting his strong bucking as Carlisle drives toward the goal line.
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  Seneca is listed by Carlisle at right tackle during the 1898 season, making the report an early example of the versatility that helps define his career.
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  A year later he emerges as one of the nation's premier halfbacks.
• 25:33
  In Game 7 of the 1912 World Series series, Kaweah catcher John Tortes Myers goes 3 for 4, drives in a run and scores another as the New York Giants beat the Boston Red Sox 11 4.
• 25:44
  Facing elimination, the Giants erupt early and force the deciding contest of the series.
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  Myers finishes the eight game World Series batting.357 with 10 hits.
• 25:54
  In the 1977 World Series, Yankees shortstop Bucky Dent Cherokee singles home a run as the New York Yankees defeat the Los Angeles Angeles Dodgers 4 2.
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  In game four, the World Series, Dent's second inning RBI helps New York build a 30 lead and Ron Gidry makes it stand with a four hit complete game.
• 26:13
  The victory gives the Yankees a three games to one advantage in the series one October later in 1978, Dent collects three hits, scores twice and drives in a run as the New York Yankees route the Los Angeles Dodgers
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  twice 122 in Game 5 of the World Series, Gant adds an 8th inning run scoring double as the New York Yankees win their third straight game and move within one victory of repeating as World Series champion in 2001.
• 26:42
  Pioneering Seminole skater Mabel Fairbanks is inducted into the International Women's Sports hall of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
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  The honor recognizes a pioneering skater and coach whose influence reaches generations of champions and skaters who faced barriers in the sport.
• 26:59
  In Toronto in 2016, Algonquin hockey legend George Armstrong has his number 10 officially retired by the Toronto Maple Leafs during the Centennial season home opener.
• 27:09
  Toronto retires the numbers of 17 honored players.
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  Armstrong's number 10 now joins the permanent list of Maple Leafs numbers that will no longer be worn in 2017.
• 27:21
  Apache fighter Frank Shamrock returns to competition for a submission grappling match against Japanese mixed martial arts legend Kazushi Sakuraba at a Risen event in Fukuoka, Japan.
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  The 10 minute match ends in a draw.
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  The match is not a professional mixed martial arts bout, but it gives Shamrock a late career crossover date against another foundational figure in the sport in 2019.
• 27:41
  A trade sends Walker River Paiute lineman Austin Cole Corbett from the Cleveland Browns to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for a future draft pick.
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  The move becomes the turning point of Corbett's early NFL career.
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  Within weeks, he moves into the Rams starting lineup and begins the run that ultimately carries into a Super bowl championship.
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  On the golf course that same year, Laguna Pueblo golfer Aiden Thomas shares the individual title at the Herb Wimberley Intercollegiate for New Mexico State.
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  The freshman closes with a six under under par 65 and finishes at six under 207, tying Dawson Lewis for the championship.
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  The result gives Thomas the first individual tournament title of his college career.
• 28:22
  Idaho State takes the field in 2022 and Nez Perce wide receiver Xavier Guillory catches five passes for 120 yards and a touchdown as the Idaho State Bengals defeat the cal Poly Mustangs 40 31.
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  Guillory ties in his career high for receiving yards and breaks loose for a 71 yard touchdown in the third quarter.
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  The victory is Idaho State's first win of the season.
• 28:46
  October 16th begins in 1899 as Seneca Football veteran Bemis Pierce is announced as the new head football coach at the University of Buffalo.
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  Pierce leads Buffalo to a 71 season with no collegiate opponents scoring against his team.
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  The appointment is widely regarded as is making the former Carlisle captain one of the earliest and likely the first Native American head coaches in college football.
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  In early Pro Football.
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  In 1921 White Earth Chippewa football star Joe Ghyon scores a touchdown and kicks four extra points as Cleveland defeats Columbus 35.
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  9 Guy on accounts for 10 points in the victory, adding kicking duties to the running, passing, receiving return and defensive skills that make him One of professional football's most versatile early stars at Haskell in 1926, Cherokee fullback May's
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  Watt McLain powers Haskell past the professional Dayton Triangles, scoring four touchdowns and a field goal in a 3014 victory.
• 29:44
  Haskell defeats the undefeated professional Dayton Club during McLean's historic scoring season for Winnipeg in 1950.
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  Creek quarterback Jack Jacobs still delivers another late game winner for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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  Two days after clinching first place, Jacobs strikes again against Saskatchewan with less than two minutes remaining.
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  He completes a third down pass to Keith Pierce, who fights across the goal line for the winning touchdown in a 2019 Winnipeg victory.
• 30:12
  In 1966, Choctaw and Chickasaw player Ed Wahoo McDaniel helps the expansion Miami Dolphins claim the first victory in franchise history 247 over the Denver Broncos.
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  McDaniel handles punting duties as well as linebacker work, booming seven punts for 295 yards and a 42.1 yard average against his former team at the Orange Bowl.
• 30:35
  The Ultimate Fighting Championship travels to Brazil in 1998 and Frank Shamrock Apache headlines UFC Ultimate Brazil and defeats John Lober for his third successful UFC championship defense.
• 30:48
  The event is the UFC's first card held in Brazil and Shamrock avenges an earlier loss to Lober while extending his championship run for Nashville in 2003.
• 30:58
  Enouk forward Jordan Tutu earns the first point of his NHL career with an assist for the Nashville predators against the St.
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  Louis Blues.
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  One week after becoming the first Enoch to play in the NHL, Tutu helped set up a Dan Ham who goal and puts his name on an NHL scoresheet for the first time in 2016.
• 31:17
  Choctaw Apache quarterback Dak Prescott breaks Tom Brady's NFL record for the most pass attempts without an interception to begin a career.
• 31:25
  Prescott extends the streak to 176 attempts before throwing his first interception in a victory at the Green Bay packers, adding a league record to his remarkable rookie start in 2020.
• 31:38
  2021 Agualla Lakota offensive lineman Teton Saltes receives the Wurfel Trophy from Danny werfel during New Mexico's home game against Colorado State.
• 31:47
  COVID 19 restrictions had prevented the normal February presentation, so Saltees receives the physical trophy in Albuquerque roughly nine months after being announced as the 2020 winner.
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  In 2022 Cherokee linebacker Z Davin Collins collects the first two sacks of his NFL career against Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith.
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  He also matches career highs with eight tackles, two tackles for loss and two quarterback hits.
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  Finally, we arrive at October 17th in 1910, Ojibwe pitcher Charles Bender opens the World Series against the Chicago Cubs with a three hit complete game victory.
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  Bender strikes out eight, allows only an unearned run and drives in a run himself as The Philadelphia Athletics win 4 1.
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  The Athletics go on to capture the first World Series championship in franchise history in 1967.
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  MASH P Wampanoag forward Sonny Dove makes his NBA debut for the Detroit pistons in a 131108 victory over the Cincinnati Royals.
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  The appearance begins Dove's professional career after Detroit selects him fourth overall in the NBA NBA draft earlier that year.
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  In 1970, Jim Plunkett, a Cherokee quarterback, becomes college football's all time career total offense leader as Stanford rolls past the Washington State Cougars 63 16.
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  Plunkett breaks the record on a 96 yard touchdown pass to Randy Vitaha, then the longest pass play in Stanford history, and finishes 10 of 14 for 224 yards while also scoring on a 39 yard run.
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  Also in 1970, Washington quarterback Sonny Sixkiller Cherokee continues his sensational first season at Washington with a record setting passing day against nationally ranked USC.
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  Sixkiller completes 30 passes establishing a new Washington single game record.
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  The huskies push the 11th ranked Trojans to the finish before falling 2825 even in defeat.
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  Sixkiller's arm is rewriting the Washington record book during a season that transforms the Huskies from a one win team into one of college football's most explosive offenses.
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  The 1971 World Series reaches Game 7 where Seminole slugger Willie Stargell helps the Pittsburgh Pirates Defeat the Baltimore Orioles 21 and claim the championship.
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  Stargell singles in the eighth inning and scores on Jose Pagan's double.
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  The run becomes the championship winning margin when Baltimore answers with one run in the bottom half.
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  Elsewhere in 1971, Big River Cree defenseman Jim Nielsen contributes three assists as the New York Rangers defeat the Montreal Canadiens 8 4.
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  The performance helps show Nielsen's value on the blue line as the Rangers build toward a Stanley cup final appearance later that season.
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  The Yankees are back in the World Series in 1978 and Cherokee shortstop Bucky Dent goes 3 for 4 with with three runs batted in as the New York Yankees defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 72 to win a second
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  consecutive World Series championship.
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  Dent finishes the six game series batting 417 with 10 hits and seven RBIs and earns World Series Most Valuable Player honors, becoming the first shortstop to receive the award.
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  Sixteen days after his historic Fenway home run, Dent completes one of baseball's great October runs with a championship climb clinching performance and the series top individual honor.
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  A year later in 1979, Seminole slugger Willie Stargell delivers the defining game of his hall of Fame career in World Series Game 7 against Baltimore.
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  Starjill goes 4 for 5 with two doubles and a go ahead two run home run as Pittsburgh wins 4 1.
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  He finishes the series batting.400 with three home runs and seven RBI and is named World World Series MVP.
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  In a memorable rivalry game in 1998, Turtle Mountain Chippewa tight end Jim Kleinsasser catches three touchdown passes as North Dakota defeats North Dakota State 3925 in Fargo.
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  With the game tied 2525 early in the fourth quarter, the 282 pound tight end takes a quick slant 77 yards for the go ahead touchdown.
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  The play becomes one of the enduring moments of the the UND NDSU Rivalry in Strong woman competition in 2021.
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  Angela Houle, Whitefish Lake Cree places third at the Strongman Corporation National Championship in Alberta in her first national level strongwoman competition.
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  The podium finish establishes Houle among Canada's leading amateur strong women and becomes an important step in the climb that carries her to professional status the following year on the football field.
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  That same year, Choctaw Apache quarterback Dak Prescott throws for 445 yards and three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys beat the New England Patriots 3529 in overtime.
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  Prescott ends the game with a walk off touchdown pass to CD Lamb, giving the Cowboys their first victory at New England since 1987.
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  That wraps up another week of incredible moments in Indian All Stars history.
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  I hope you'll join me again next week as we bring more great Native athletes back into the spotlight.
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  Until then, this is Indian All Stars.