Louis Weller

Who was Louis Weller?

Louis "Rabbit" Weller was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Boston Redskins. He attended Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.

Weller was a four-sport star at Haskell Institute. Weller, a full-blooded Caddo Indian, was the first three-time captain of the Haskell football team, where he scored thirteen touchdowns of 60 yards or more. In 1930, he was selected to the Knute Rockne All-American team and the United Press second team. W eller played two years of professional football with the Boston Redskins and Tulsa Oilers, scoring a 60-yard touchdown the first time he touched the ball. A dodging, ducking runner, he had one of his greatest games in 1930 versus undefeated Oklahoma A&M. In that game, the 5-foot, 8-inch, 150-pounder returned a kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown and later returned a punt 95 yards for the winning touchdown in a 13-12 victory. Weller once returned seven punts for touchdowns in one high school game for Chilocco Indian Agricultural School in Oklahoma. Made Ripley's famous "Believe It or Not" for returning a kickoff 105 yards for a touchdown. Charter inductee of the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame.