In the autumn of 1912, the Football Team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.
S.
But for lightning-fast Jim Thorpe and the other Carlisle players, that day\'s game was about skill, strategy, and det. soldiers and American Indians who fought on the battlefield only 20 years earlier.
Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U.
S.
Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Points Cadets.
In the autumn of 1912, the Football Team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.
S