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with only a third-grade education. Calac left
Carlisle in June 1911 and returned to California. He asked to return to Carlisle and was re-enrolled September 22, 1912. At the school, he played competitive football. In 1914 and 1915, he was captain of the football team. He was first elected as the
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team's captain in 1914 when the team's current captain, Elmer Busch, was forced to resign. Until attending the school, Calac had never played football before and had no knowledge of the game. Calac recalled in Robert W. Wheeler's book,
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championship, and was acclaimed the pro football champion. The
Bulldogs had a repeat of their 1916 season, by winning the 1917 Ohio League championship. Then in 1919 Thorpe and Calac were joined in the backfield by future
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terrier breeder, brought Thorpe and Calac, to his plantation in
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shows instead of a football team. Calac played the team's
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802:"Ben Lee Boynton: The Purple Streak"
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761:"The Oorang Indians"
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247:Ohio League
86:Position(s)
894:Categories
677:References
501:Jim Thorpe
448:Jim Thorpe
400:Early life
283:Allegiance
49:1892-05-13
22:Pete Calac
609:Eddie Kaw
513:Joe Guyon
395:Biography
311:U.S. Army
225:1925–1926
203:1922–1923
151:1916–1920
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