Thorpe and Carlile take down Army

As Native American Heritage Month has just slipped past us, I’d like to share the story of a football game played Nov. 9, 1912 between Army and Carlisle Indian School at West Point, N.Y. This is an epic story, and I hope I can do it justice. The Army team was captained by Dwight D. Eisenhower, who became our 34th President, and Carlisle was captained by Jim Thorpe, a Sac & Fox Indian who…