"Game of the century"

[longtimefirsttime]

This looks like a very interesting read.

"The two teams stood on opposite sidelines of Cullum Field at West Point, studying each other closely as whites and Indians once did from opposite sides of frontier battlefields. Kickoff between the Carlisle Indian School and Army was minutes away. The cold November air at West Point was thick with tension. This was it, the game James Francis Thorpe, Dwight David Eisenhower, and Glenn Scobey Warner had been waiting to play all their lives."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/09/27/carllisle/index.html

[fyrewood]

My Great, Great Uncle Joe Little Twig (yes that really was his name lol) was a participant in that game for the Carlisle Indians. He was good friends with Jim Thorpe and later came with him to Canton to play for the Pro Canton Bulldogs and the NFL's only all Indian team, the Oorang Indians out of LaRue, Ohio.

https://www.profootballhof.com/history/decades/1920s/oorang.jsp