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Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team /
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 inve...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Roaring Brook Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Image http://stevesheinkin.com/ |
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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 a 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. |
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| Physical Description: |
280 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
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Young Adult. 980 980L |
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Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 2017. Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2017 Horn Book Fanfare List, 2017 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781596439542 1596439548 9780605963221 0605963223 |