Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team /

Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School 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 inve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sheinkin, Steve (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Thorpe, Jim, > 1887-1953 > Juvenile literature.
Warner, Glenn S. > (Glenn Scobey), > 1871-1954 > Juvenile literature.
Thorpe, Jim, > 1887-1953.
Warner, Glenn S. > (Glenn Scobey), > 1871-1954.
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > Football > Juvenile literature.
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > History > Juvenile literature.
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > Football.
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Football > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Native Americans > North America > Biography.
Football.
Biographies.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Sports & Recreation.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > People & Places > United States > Native American.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > United States > History > 20th Century.
Juvenile works.
Table of 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.