But there is much, much more to his story, including an amazing football career at Carlisle that spanned seven years, and was capped by a win at West Point, playing against a team that included Dwight D. You might know Jim Thorpe as the Olympian who had to return his medals when he was discovered to have played professional baseball. But it also had an amazing football team, coached by Pop Warner, that pretty much reinvented the modern game of college football. You might know Carlisle Indian School as a place where Native American children were sent, often unwillingly, to be taught to assimilate into white culture. The Harvard-Yale football game? Well, you’re half right it was the football match between Harvard and the Carlisle Indian School football team, starring Olympian Jim Thorpe. Summary: Which American sporting event drew the biggest crowd in 1911? The World Series? An Olympic event? (Wait, there weren’t even any Olympic games in 1911).
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