When superstar athlete Jim Thorpe and football legend Pop Warner met in 1904 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 such as Harvard and the Army in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays, and bone-crushing hard work.
But this is not just an underdog story. It's an unflinching look at the persecution of Native Americans and its intersection with the beginning of one of the most beloved―and exploitative―pastimes in America, expertly told by nonfiction powerhouse Steve Sheinkin.
- ISBN10 1250294479
- ISBN13 9781250294470
- Publish Date 15 January 2019 (first published 17 January 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 December 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English