Most fascinating bit really is about the innocence of the Merkins who actually CARED about

the native americans assuming that the best way to help them was to Americanise them and take their kids to a boarding school, ban them from speaking their own languages, dress them up in military uniforms, cut their hair etc just to prove they were not a subhuman species.

Much much more, and interesting to see what drove Eisenhower. Quite a hard luck story.

And the one fascinating thing about the game itself is how close it was to the Wounded Knee massacre. Basically the coaches and players on the Army team were the sons and grandchildren of the soldiers who committed the massacre, while the players on the Carlisle Indians team were grandchildren of the victims and survivors.

Then there's the rest you probably wouldn't be so interested in which is more on an AF level, about Pop Warner and Jim Thorpe, etc. I'd say it's the most fascinating sports-but-more-than-sports book I've read since Brilliant Orange.

Posted By: Steve in Holland on September 26th 2011 at 10:26:54

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