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By 1909, Warner had Thorpe competing in track and field and he won 14 events. In 1911, Thorpe began training for the upcoming Olympics, and won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. [n 15] Jim Thorpe tackling a weighted dummy on a pulley with Warner supervising, 1912.
Coach "Pop" Warner (standing, third from right) and Jim Thorpe (seated, third from right) are pictured. In 1903, an Indian team coached by Pop Warner first employed its infamous "hidden-ball play" against heavily favored Harvard. Warner, as coach at Cornell, had already used it against Penn State in 1897, but
Jim Thorpe – All-American (UK title: Man of Bronze) is a 1951 American biographical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe, the great Native American athlete who won medals at the 1912 Olympics and distinguished himself in various sports, both in college and on professional teams.
Led by 11th-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians compiled a record of 12–1–1 and outscored opponents 454 to 120, leading the nation in scoring. [1] It featured the Hall of Famers Jim Thorpe, Joe Guyon, and Gus Welch. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a halfback on the Army team defeated by Carlisle.
Thorpe in 1912 Thorpe tackling a dummy that is made of weights and pulley on wire, with Coach Warner, 1912 Thorpe began his athletic career at Carlisle in 1907 when he walked past the track and, still in street clothes, beat all the school's high jumpers with an impromptu 5-ft 9-in jump. [ 19 ]
Led by tenth-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians compiled a record of 11–1 and outscored opponents 298 to 49. The season included one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Against Harvard, Jim Thorpe scored all of the Indians' points in a shocking upset over the period powerhouse, 18–15.
Led by seventh-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians compiled a record of 10–2–1 and outscored opponents 222 to 55. Warner's team ran the single-wing on offense. This team featured legendary back Jim Thorpe.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School was depicted in the 1951 movie classic Jim Thorpe – All-American, a biographical feature film produced by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz, honoring Jim Thorpe. Historian Mark Rubinfeld says, "The movie stands out as an important cultural document in both American and Native American history."