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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anderson, Lars
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > Football. Thorpe, Jim, > 1887-1953. Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969. 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

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