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Author Anderson, Lars.

Title Carlisle vs. Army : Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football's greatest battle / Lars Anderson.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  796.332 AND    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.332 AN23    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  796.33263 AND    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  796.3326 ANDERSON    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  796.322 ANDERSON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  796.332 AN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 Pennsylvania and the Carlisle Indian School, an institution designed to "elevate" Indians by uprooting their youths and immersing them in the white man's ways--including football. Guided by genius coach Glenn "Pop" Warner, the Carlisle team stormed the country, humiliating such powerhouses as Harvard, Yale, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and smashing American prejudices against Indians. By 1912 the national championship was within their grasp. Then, less than a quarter century after Wounded Knee, the Indians would confront, on the playing field, an emblem of the very institution that had slaughtered their ancestors on the field of battle.--From publisher description.
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.
Subject United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Football.
Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
Football -- History.
Added Title Carlisle versus Army
Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football's greatest battle
ISBN 9781400066001 alkaline paper
140006600X alkaline paper
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