Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle ebook

by Lars Anderson

Ever since Eisenhower and his Cadet teammates found out that Carlisle and Jim Thorpe would be coming to West Point, a day rarely passed at the Academy when the Army players didn’t talk about how they were going to stop Thorpe. A Cadet would become famous, the Army players believed, if he knocked Thorpe out of the game with a hit so powerful it kidnapped Thorpe from consciousness. Eisenhower especially had been looking forward to this game for months.

Carlisle Vs. Army book. The book chronicles the lives of Pop Warner, head football coach at Carlisle Indian Boarding school, Jim Thorpe, a Sauc/Fox indian and naturally phenomenal all-around athlete from a reservation in Oklahoma who would go on to win multiple gold medals in his first and only Olympics, and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower while he was a student and varsity football player at West. Point Military College.

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In 1912 the coach and the Carlisle team could feel the national championship within their grasp. Among the obstacles in Carlisle's path to dominance were the Cadets of Army, led by a hardnosed Kansan back named Dwight Eisenhower.

An epic story of how the Carlisle Indians battled the West Point Cadets, thisriveting tale of football brings together three of the most legendary figuresever to play the game: Carlisle head coach Pop Warner, Jim Thorpe, and DwightEisenhower. 5 people like this topic. ARMY by Lars Anderson is a story rich in the successes and failures of American history, told with a cast of characters that includes three Presidents of the United States, the generals who led America to victory in World War II, football legends whose influence on the game i. ARMY by Lars Anderson is a story rich in the successes and failures of American history, told with a cast of characters that includes three Presidents of the United States, the generals who led America to victory in World War II, football legends whose influence on the game is still felt today, and finally -- and perhaps most importantly. - the proud Indian nations who deserved better from the white men who seized control of their lands. At the end of the 19th century, the United States government still had not resolved the conflict created by westward expansion.

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A stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Carlisle vs. Army recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America’s finest athletes, Jim Thorpe, against the man who would become one of the nation’s greatest heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower. But beyond telling the tale of this momentous event, Lars Anderson also reveals the broader social and historical context of the match, lending it his unique perspectives on sports and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century.This story begins with the infamous massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee, in 1890, then moves to rural Pennsylvania and the Carlisle Indian School, an institution designed to “elevate” Indians by uprooting their youths and immersing them in the white man’s ways. Foremost among those ways was the burgeoning sport of football. In 1903 came the man who would mold the Carlisle Indians into a juggernaut: Glenn “Pop” Warner, the son of a former Union Army captain. Guided by Warner, a tireless innovator and skilled manager, the Carlisle eleven barnstormed the country, using superior team speed, disciplined play, and tactical mastery to humiliate such traditional powerhouses as Harvard, Yale, Michigan, and Wisconsin–and to, along the way, lay waste American prejudices against Indians. When a troubled young Sac and Fox Indian from Oklahoma named Jim Thorpe arrived at Carlisle, Warner sensed that he was in the presence of greatness. While still in his teens, Thorpe dazzled his opponents and gained fans across the nation. In 1912 the coach and the Carlisle team could feel the national championship within their grasp.Among the obstacles in Carlisle’s path to dominance were the Cadets of Army, led by a hardnosed Kansan back named Dwight Eisenhower. In Thorpe, Eisenhower saw a legitimate target; knocking the Carlisle great out of the game would bring glory both to the Cadets and to Eisenhower. The symbolism of this matchup was lost on neither Carlisle’s footballers nor on Indians across the country who followed their exploits. Less than a quarter century after Wounded Knee, the Indians would confront, on the playing field, an emblem of the very institution that had slaughtered their ancestors on the field of battle and, in defeating them, possibly regain a measure of lost honor.Filled with colorful period detail and fascinating insights into American history and popular culture, Carlisle vs. Army gives a thrilling, authoritative account of the events of an epic afternoon whose reverberations would be felt for generations."Carlisle vs. Army is about football the way that The Natural is about baseball.”–Jeremy Schaap, author of I

Celore

This is unequivocally one of the top three sports books ever written, right up there with "Boys in the Boat." It is beautifully told, makes one both aware of the rough shaping of America in the tumultuous late 19th century, but also a bit ashamed that America couldn't have done better with the Native Americans. But the book doesn't play the Indian team at Carlisle so much as victims of the times as innocents caught up in a cultural sea change. Mr. Anderson artfully weaves a rich tapestry of young Native American kids from many tribes coming together as "Indians" to fight on the football field, culminating in one hell of a tussle against Army, playing against the very bloodlines of soldiers who might well have killed some of their people. In that Army team was Dwight David Eisenhower. I don't care how many books you've read on Eisenhower, you'll learn something new about him in this book. Many years later, he not only remembered playing against Jim Thorpe but Thorpe recalled Eisenhower as "Good Linebacker." Being a good linebacker shaped the young man's personality, helped make him a leader, as demonstrated compellingly in the book. Jim Thorpe didn't damage Eisenhower's knee, but rather was such a master of the stutter-like stop-start on the football field that Eisenhower and another Army player wrecked each other. And Pop Warner! What a guy. He basically was the father of American football, a molder of boys into men, and of course a flawed man himself--but aren't all good leaders of men? This book is truly magnificent!

Goll

Shows how a positive attitude to succeed against all odds will work, especially when you work for an inventive coach who is using techniques and stratigies that are ahead of his time and that fit to his team. Smaller that nearly all the teams they played against he taught them how to use surprise, their speed, quickness, and intelligence to defeat college teams bigger and better equiped than they were. Exellent reading.

Jaiarton

In 1912, one of the classic American football games was played--between Carlisle and mighty Army. A book published in 2007 covers much of the same territory, "The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation" by Sally Jenkins--and covers it well. But Lars Anderson's book, approaching the issues differently, likewise has created a wonderful examination of that game and events leading up to it.

The structure of Anderson's book weaves the story of three people together, culminating in that 1912 context. First, legendary coach Pop Warner; second, the great Indian athlete, Jim Thorpe; third, a gritty undersized football player and future military leader, Dwight Eisenhower. What was at stake in the Carlisle-Army game might be summarized by a segment of the pep talk Warner gave his team just before the contest began: "Remember it was their fathers and grandfathers who destroyed your way of life. Remember Wounded Knee. Remember all of this on every play. Let's go." And so the Indian team from Carlisle took on the Army team with those words ringing in their ears.

How did we get to this point? The book describes the arc of Warner's life, his childhood, his becoming an attorney, and the strange voyage leading him into coaching. Early on, he was a vagabond, moving from team to team (even leaving the position at Carlisle a bit before returning). He was an innovator and could inspire his team.

Then there was Thorpe, from the American Southwest. Growing up, he was always restless, would run away from school routinely. He ended up at Carlisle, but ran away from that institution, too. The book illustrates his foray into professional baseball during one such hiatus (which, of course, was to come back to haunt him). Upon his return to Carlisle, he led them ably. The story of his Olympic heroics are also recounted.

Then, Ike, who--paradoxically enough--also played professional baseball under an assumed name ("Wilson"), but he was never caught for that behavior. The story of the undersized, hot tempered youth who ended up going to West Point, desperate to make the football team.

The three narratives come together with that game on November 9th, 1912. The story of the game itself is well told (no sense giving away all the elements). Then, the story of the aftermath for all three protagonists.

This is indeed a spellbinding historical tale. The book is well researched and well written, filled with details that provide depth to the subjects of this work. Highly recommended for those with an interest in the subject. . . .

Uris

I accept that this book is not a work of history, and I enjoyed the imagination the author displayed in exploring the motivations and inner thoughts of the characters, but some of the glaring errors of fact made it a less enjoyable read than it might have been. The issue of the single and double wing have been explored in other reviews, but the assertion that the Carlisle trip to Toronto was a promoter's dream because it was the first ever football game that featured one team from Canada and one from the United States ignores one of the most famous and important set of games in the evolution of football in America - the Harvard vs McGill series in 1874. Also missing from this book is any mention of the fact that Carlisle and Army had played each other before - Carlisle beat Army in 1905. The famous saying is "don't let facts get in the way of the a good story" and the author certainly took heed of that maxim. So it was an entertaining read, but I don't trust that I learned the truth of the matter from this book.

Ariurin

good history about when Eisenhower and Thorpe grew up to play each other at Carlisle.