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The Real All Americans by Sally Jenkins (2007, Hardcover) 
The Real All Americans by Sally Jenkins (2007, Hardcover)

 
The Real All Americans by Sally Jenkins (2007, Hardcover)

Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 2007-05-15
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0385519877
ISBN-13: 9780385519878
Product ID: EPID57146924
Description: Journalist/author Jenkins revives a forgotten piece of history and crafts an inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you guessed that Yale or...
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Journalist/author Jenkins revives a forgotten piece of history and crafts an inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you guessed that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you'd be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a dangerous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle's first students. Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing the way the game was played.--From publisher description.

Details
Publication Date:2007-05-15

Size
Length:343 pages
Height:10.0 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:22.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Offers an inspirational portrait of the Native American football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a championship squad that included the legendary Jim Thorpe and that defeated its Ivy League opponents, in a history that is set against a backdrop of the early days of football and the rise and fall of Coach Glenn "Pop" Warner. 75,000 first printing.

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