Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team / Steve Sheinkin.
2017
GV958.U33 S54 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team / Steve Sheinkin.
Author
Sheinkin, Steve, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781596439542 (hardcover)
1596439548 (hardcover)
1596439548 (hardcover)
Published
New York, New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
280 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Call Number
GV958.U33 S54 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.332/630974843
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 a 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Young Adult.
980 Lexile.
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980 Lexile.
980L Lexile
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Undefeated.
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Table of Contents
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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.
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.