Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team

Author

Steve Sheinkin

Call Number

• 796.33263 S543 TEEN (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017.

Physical Description

280 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Summary

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.

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.