Carlisle vs. Army Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football's greatest battle
Recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America's finest athletes, Jim Thorpe, against the man who would become one of the nation's greatest heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The story begins with the massacre of the Sioux by the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee in 1890, then moves to rural...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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.
