Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team

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Native American Jim Thorpe became a super athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Indomitable coach Pop Warner was a football mastermind. In 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that invented football," they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius play...

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Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953 Juvenile literature

United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) Football Literatures

Warner, Glenn S. (Glenn Scobey), 1871-1954 Literatures

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ISBN:

9781596439542
1596439548

Edition:

First edition

Description:

280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Tryout
First half
The star
The coach
The game
The school
Alien world
The team
Restless disposition
Carlisle vs. the big four
Charlie
The Carlisle rut
Football imagination
New team
Carlisle vs. Pennsylvania
Wild horses
Haughty crimson
Before and after
Football on trial
High jump
Second half
The forward pass
Carlisle against the world
Modern football
Crossroads
The quarterback
All in
Carlisle vs. Harvard
All-American
Stockholm
One more year
Into the whirlwind
Football evolution
Carlisle vs. Army
Last games
Brutal business
Undefeated
Epilogue: back on top

LCCN:

2016009083

Control Number:

2129986

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