![]() ![]() Sheinkin attempts to converge several threads of the Thorpe/Carlisle story, switching between background on Carlisle’s developing football program, Glenn “Pop” Warner’s backstory and involvement in coaching and recruiting, and Thorpe’s tenure as restless, uncommitted student and football hero. Here Sheinkin concentrates on Thorpe’s years at the Carlisle Indian School, during which time both Thorpe and Carlisle became sports luminaries as football itself evolved rapidly into a semblance of the game we recognize today. ![]() ![]() It takes an ambitious, sprawling biography to do justice to the multifaceted career of early twentieth-century sportsman Jim Thorpe, whose accomplishments cannot be fully appreciated without examining the educational system focused on forced assimilation of Native children, under which Thorpe came of age. ![]()
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