1921 Cleveland Tigers season

[2] The 1921 team, remembered by some as the Cleveland Indians,[3] featured legendary player-coach Jim Thorpe at halfback and two other Native-American football stars in the backfield — "Indian Joe" Guyon and fullback Pete Calac, both of whom played with Thorpe on the 1920 Canton Bulldogs.

[4] In all, six members of the 1921 Cleveland Tigers team played on the Canton Bulldogs the previous season.

[4] The 34-year old Thorpe — ancient in football years — used himself sparingly but was still effective enough that the Cleveland Plain Dealer could write good-naturedly of his season-opening performance against the Columbus Panhandles: "Poor Jim Thorpe.

He has become so old and decrepit that the best he could do yesterday was run eighty yards for a touchdown, shaking off half a dozen tacklers and dodging three or four others.

His arm has become so weak he cannot throw the football more than forty or fifty yards in executing forward passes.