Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

<p>Jim Thorpe: Super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American <br>Pop Warner: Indomitable coach, football mastermind, Ivy League grad </p><p>Before these men became legends, they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, where they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called &quot;the team that invented football,&quot; they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools such as Harvard and the Army in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays, and bone-crushing hard work. </p><p><i>Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team </i>is an astonishing underdog sports story -- and more. It's an unflinching look at the U.S. government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. Expertly told by three-time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin, it's the story of a group of young men who came together at that school, the overwhelming obstacles they faced both on and off the field, and their absolute refusal to accept defeat.</p>