Thorpe and Carlile take down Army

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1912

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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 I...

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