Xavier Downwind

{{Short description|American football player (1893–1968)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Xavier {{nobold|"}}Red Fang{{nobold|"}} Downwind

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| birth_date = December 24, 1893

| birth_place = Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota

| death_date = {{death_date and age|1968|07|26|1893|12|12}}

| death_place = Bemidji, Minnesota

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lbs = 200

| position = End / Tackle

| college = Carlisle Indian

| number = 18

| pfr = DownXa20

| teams =

• Oorang Indians (1922–1923)

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Chief Xavier Downwind a.k.a. Red Fang (December 24, 1893 – July 26, 1968) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 and 1923 seasons. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian School, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, before joining the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. Downwind was a Chippewa.{{cite web|url=http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/03-01-057.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=August 21, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127050226/http://profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/03-01-057.pdf |archive-date=November 27, 2010 }}