Young Jim Thorpe, Native American, and His Game-Changing Football Team

(NYTimes) Few of today’s football fans know that much of the game as we now recognize it was developed by a group of Native American kids who were coerced into a Pennsylvania assimilation camp called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where they were coached by a man named Glenn (Pop) Warner. Before their legendary seasons from 1907 to 1912 there was no forward pass, no misdirection play, no receivers or tight ends. Along with the outsize athletic ability of the ultratalented Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle Indians’ speed and inventiveness were both revolutionary and wildly successful: Continued