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The Carlisle Indian School: The Extraordinary Beginning of College Football’s Greatest Underdog

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Jim Thorpe in a Carlisle uniform.

This will be a series about the Carlisle Indian School football team. This is the first in the series about the school’s founding.

This is one of the best stories in college football history.

Summary:

The video transcript discusses the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first government-run boarding school for Native American children, established in 1879 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, by Richard Henry Pratt with the aim of assimilating Native Americans into American society through education.