Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army

In the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Points Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U.S. soldiers and American Indians who fought on the battlefield only 20 years earlier. But for lightning-fast Jim Thorpe and the other Carlisle players, that day's game was about skill, strategy, and determination. Known for unusual formations and innovative plays, the Carlisle squad was out to prove just one thing -- that it was the best football team in all the land.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Capstone Editions
Published: 08/01/2018
ISBN: 9781543504064
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 11.20w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2018
Booklist 06/01/2018 pg. 80
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2018
School Library Journal 10/01/2018 pg. 84
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 501037 / Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army
Reading Level: 4.7 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 0.5