Jim Thorpe, Original All-AmericanPenguin, 2 жовт. 2008 р. - 288 стор. Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League Baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track & field. But his life wasn’t an easy one. Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887, he encountered much family tragedy, and was sent as a young boy to various Indian boarding schools—strict, cold institutions that didn’t allow their students to hold on to their Native American languages and traditions. Jim ran away from school many times, until he found his calling at Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian School. There, the now-legendary coach Pop Warner recognized Jim’s athletic excellence and welcomed him onto the football and track teams. Focusing on Jim Thorpe’s years at Carlisle, this book brings his early athletic career—and especially his college football days—to life, while also dispelling some myths about him and movingly depicting the Native American experience at the turn of the twentieth century. This is a book for history buffs as well as sports fans—an illuminating and lively read about a truly great American. |
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Carlisles Visit | 19 |
Back Home | 24 |
Garden Grove | 28 |
Off to Carlisle | 35 |
Follow the Trolley Tracks | 39 |
WarmUp Games | 135 |
The Toughest Season | 141 |
The Reluctant Track Star | 148 |
Summer Ball | 156 |
Being Missed | 162 |
Tough Seasons | 166 |
A Friend for Life | 173 |
So Far So Good | 179 |
Cadet Thorpe | 45 |
The Routine | 49 |
Outing | 54 |
Clearing the Bar | 63 |
Keep aGoin | 67 |
Ex | 73 |
Summer at Carlisle | 77 |
Nobody Tackles Jim | 81 |
The World of the Football Boys | 89 |
Indian Field | 95 |
First Touchdown | 100 |
The Association | 114 |
Doing Well | 119 |
Oklahoma Summer | 127 |
Iva | 185 |
Harvard | 192 |
AllAmerican | 198 |
Better Than Ever Before | 204 |
Olympic Glory | 213 |
All Kinds of Opportunities | 224 |
The 1912 Season | 230 |
Everything Comes to an End | 243 |
Disgrace | 247 |
Things Come Around | 254 |
Authors Note | 263 |
Bibliography | 274 |
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