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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Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2007], ©2007.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Carlisle versus Army.
Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football's greatest battle. |
Format: | Book |
MSU Main Library
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GV958.U33 A53 2007
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