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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe ...  Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of ... the line and crouched in a three-point stance to the outside of the left offensive tackle. .... In 1912, one of the classic American football games was played--between ... And so the Indian team from Carlisle took on the Army team with those words...
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Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia  James Francis "Jim" Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of ... He played as part of several all American Indian teams throughout his career, and .... Carlisle's 1912 record included a 276 victory over Army. ... team, which also included future International Olympic Committee president...
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Book Report: Carlisle vs. Army - The World of Football  Jun 22, 2008 ... That same summer, in North Carolina, Jim Thorpe also played ... to play on the varsity football team his first year at the Army Academy, but ... He made the varsity team in his sophomore year of 1912. One of his teammates was another future Army general, Omar ... That president was Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower ... - Amazon.com  Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's ... recounts one of college football's greatest contests: Carlisle vs. Army. ... football team minutes before the squad took the field against Army in 1912. ... with a bone-crushing hit almost derailed the future president's military career.
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Amazon.com: Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower ...  Editorial Reviews. From Booklist. *Starred Review* "Remember that it was the fathers and ... Army recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America's finest ..... and growth of the school and the role Jim Thorpe played in its football team's ... interesting read especially the parts relative to president eisenhower.
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Jim Thorpe The World's Greatest Athlete  King Gustav V of Sweden told Thorpe: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the ... the American Olympic team to Stockholm, Sweden for the 1912 Olympic Games.
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How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football - History in the Headlines  Sep 6, 2012 ... In life, as in a football game, he wrote, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard! In 1903, the...
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ESPN.com: November Classic Moments  Today, a month after completing his rookie season with the Kansas City Royals with 22 ... Besides playing end and owning the team, the 28-year-old Halas also .... and Doc Blanchard for Army, Johnny Lujack and Leon Hart for Notre Dame). ..... Fouts, also a future Hall of Famer, finishes with six touchdown passes, one shy...
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Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia  James Francis "Jim" Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won .... Later that year he became orphaned after Hiram Thorpe died from gangrene...
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Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia  James Francis "Jim" Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of .... Thorpe "ran around past and through them not once, but twice". ... For the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, two new multi-event ... Thorpe his prize, King Gustav said, "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world",...
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Fight for Jim Thorpe's remains continues 62 years later - USA Today  Aug 8, 2015 ... The man this borough is named for lived one of the most astonishing ... onetime coalmining towns in northeastern Pennsylvania that agreed to merge ... King Gustav told him, Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world. .... We paid good money for him and we put his name on our town, and now he's ours.
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Ford Was MVP of His College Football Team | TheLedger.com  Dec 28, 2006 ... During a 1934 game against the University of Chicago, Ford became the only future U.S. president to tackle a future ... He also was the captain of his football team at Grand Rapids South High School and was an all-state...
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Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia  James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the ... He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of ... medals. Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma. .... Strong competition from local favorite Hugo Wieslander was expected.
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ESPN.com: Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo  He was the Olympic track champion who lost his gold medals because he played minor league baseball. ... But Thorpe's legend was galvanized into America's conscience at the 1912 Olympics. He won the ... When King Gustav V of Sweden congratulated Thorpe, he said, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.".
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Remembering Teddy's three trips to S.A. - San Antonio Express-News  Jan 26, 2015 ... ... officially the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, in preparation for ... a speech in Alamo Plaza and a visit to the old training grounds at ... the volunteer regiment, made up primarily of college athletes, cowboys, ... Leonard Wood, one-time physician to Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley.
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ESPN.com: Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo  Although he would continue to write his legacy as an athlete nonpareil, he was stripped of his gold medals in 1913 after it was discovered he had violated...
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TLW's 1900s (1900-1909) Historyscope - The Historyscoper  William McKinley, with war hero Theodore Roosevelt (gov. of New York) for ... Full Dinner Pail"; Roosevelt later says that McKinley has "as much backbone as a ...... having ascended upon the death of a predecessor (Coolidge, 1924, Truman, ... Henry Clay Frick reportedly grumbles "We bought the son of a bitch and then he...
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HumanitiesWeb.org - Woodrow Wilson - "Schoolmaster in Politics ...  1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -The Election That Changed the Country (James Chace) Four extraordinary men sought the presidency in 1912.
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Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia  James Francis "Jim" Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of ... Thorpe attended the Sac and Fox Indian Agency school in Stroud, Oklahoma, with his ... Carlisle's 1912 record included a 276 victory over Army. .... to the Giants in 1917 but was sold to the Cincinnati Reds early in the season.
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The Big Apple: Muckraker  Jan 18, 2010 ... President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) gave his address, The Man ... The term muckraker was first used in a speech on April 14, 1906 by ... MUCK n.1 + RAKER n.1 In sense 2 after MUCKRAKE v. .... TR was repeating a phrase he had found successful at the Gridiron Club dinner of March 17, 1906.
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JEOPARDY! Game - January 12, 2004  (9) She & the future President spent part of their 1948 honeymoon at a Michigan-Northwestern football game. $800 - Snowden. (19) Lesney Products, a...