The real all Americans : the team that changed a game, a people, a nation / Sally Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.).

Football.

Physical Description:

vi, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [2007]

Summary:

Journalist/author Jenkins revives a forgotten piece of history and crafts an inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you guessed that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you'd be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a dangerous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle's first students. Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing the way the game was played.--From publisher description.

Contents:

The real field

Pratt

Fort Marion : first lessons

Carlisle

The last fight and first games

Cheats and swindles

Not a parlor game

Dodges and deceptions

Experiments in flight

Advances and retreats

The real all Americans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-343) and index.

ISBN:

9780385519878

0385519877

OCLC:

82772593