| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"A great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story of how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner created the legendary Carlisle Indians football team"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [234]-266) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Football -- Juvenile literature.
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Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953 -- Juvenile literature.
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Warner, Glenn S. (Glenn Scobey), 1871-1954 -- Juvenile literature.
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Young adult literature.
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Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953. (OCoLC)fst00044054
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Warner, Glenn S. (Glenn Scobey), 1871-1954. (OCoLC)fst00369405
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United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) (OCoLC)fst00584691
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United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Football.
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Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953.
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Warner, Glenn S. (Glenn Scobey), 1871-1954.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Sports & Recreation.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / Native American.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century.
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Football. (OCoLC)fst00931362
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sheinkin, Steve, author. Undefeated First edition. New York, New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017 9781596439559 (DLC) 2016034829 |
| ISBN |
9781596439542 (hardback) |
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1596439548 (hardback) |
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