Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team / Steve Sheinkin
Material type: TextEdition: First editionDescription: 280 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9781596439542; 1596439548Other title: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football teamSubject(s): Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953 -- Juvenile literature | Warner, Glenn S. (Glenn Scobey), 1871-1954 -- Juvenile literature | United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Football -- Juvenile literatureGenre/Form: Juvenile works. | Biographies. Additional physical formats: Online version:: UndefeatedLOC classification: GV958.U33 | S54 2017Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 921/THORPE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500042664 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
"A great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story of how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner created the legendary Carlisle Indians football team"--
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 plays, and bone-crushing hard work. Sheinkin provides an true underdog sports story-- and an unflinching look at the U.S. government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures
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