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The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
Doubleday
May 2007
On Sale: May 8, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0385519877
EAN: 9780385519878
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the
Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All
Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly
inspirational story about a Native American football team
that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was
about a bike. If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college
gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular
team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian
Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard
Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native
Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879,
Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to
recruit Carlisle’s first students. Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion
of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in
less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was
defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process
changing the way the game was played.
Sally Jenkins gives this story of unlikely champions a
breathtaking immediacy. We see the legendary Jim Thorpe
kicking a winning field goal, watch an injured Dwight D.
Eisenhower limping off the field, and follow the glorious
rise of Coach Glenn “Pop” Warner as well as his unexpected
fall from grace.
The Real All Americans is about the end of a culture and the
birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations.
It is an inspiring reminder of the extraordinary things that
can be achieved when we set aside our differences and
embrace a common purpose.
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