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Carlisle versus Army : Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football's greatest battle Lars Anderson
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks GV 958 .U33 A53 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Lars.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--Football.
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.).
- Football--History.
- Football.
- Physical Description:
- 349 pages : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 2007.
- Summary:
- Describes the November 1912 football matchup between college football powerhouse Army--which included cadet Dwight Eisenhower--and the Native American team from Carlisle, a team that was coached by the inventive Pop Warner and included Jim Thorpe.
- Contents:
- The thrill of possibility
- Shot like buffalo
- Pop learns from Ma
- The trickiest play
- What an Indian can do
- There's just no future in the army
- He is certainly a wild Indian
- A couple of well-paid amateurs
- A brutal, savage, murderous sport
- Beast barracks and a beast on the field
- A real American if there ever was one
- Chief Thorpe and the huge Kansan
- The clash of heroes
- The dead Indian and another wounded knee
- Epilogue: the ghosts of Carlisle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9781400066001
- 140006600X
- OCLC:
- 762269678
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