TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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.
AU  - Sheinkin, Steve,
CN  - GV958.U33
CN  - GV958.U33
ET  - First edition.
ID  - 808134
KW  - Football
KW  - Off-reservation boarding schools
KW  - Indians, Treatment of
N2  - 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.
SN  - 9781596439542
SN  - 1596439548
T1  - Undefeated :Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team /
TI  - Undefeated :Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team /
ER  -