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

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...

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Main Author: Anderson, Lars
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Thorpe, Jim, > 1887-1953.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969.
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > Football.
Football > History.
Physical Description:349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Carlisle versus Army.
Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football's greatest battle.
Format: Book
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.