Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army
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In the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and betterequipped West Points Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U.S. soldiers and American Indians who fought on the battlefield only 20 years earlier. But for lightningfast Jim Thorpe and the other Carlisle players, that day's game was about skill, strategy, and d...





