| Birth date | February 11, 1889 |
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| Birth place | Cherokee, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Death date | October 14, 1957 (aged 68) |
| Death place | Cherokee, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft |
| Height in | 11 |
| Weight lbs | 185 |
| Position | Guard |
| College | Carlisle Haskell Indian |
| Number | 9 |
| Pfr | PoweSt20 |
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Stancil "Wrinkle Meat" Powell (February 11, 1889 – October 14, 1957) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1923 season. That season, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. Powell was an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.[1]
References
- Whitman, Robert L. (1984). Jim Thorpe and the Oorang Indians: The N.F.L.'s Most Colorful Franchise. [Mount Gilead, Ohio]: Marion County Historical Society. OCLC 717439558
- Uniform Numbers of the NFL
Notes
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-27. Retrieved 2012-11-08.