Carlisle Indian School Football Immortals: A Brief Introduction

In Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs, Tom Benjey expanded the scope of his previous work, Keep A-Goin: The Life of Lone Star Dietz, to explore the lives of not just one of the Carlisle Indian School football immortals but the core group of men -- more than 50 all told -- who helped create the sport, both amateur and professional, we enjoy today. The issue for the Carlisle students of the competing visions of mainstreaming versus cultural retention for Native Americans in this country is one that Dr.Benjey explores in detail, the validities of which are still debated a century later.[A] plethora of books have been written about the Carlisle team. In my opinion, none of them can match the exhaustive research, attention to detail and, most importantly, the accuracy of Dr. Benjey's book.Robert W. Wheeler, author, Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest Athlete Carlisle Indian School Football Immortals consists of the background chapters from Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs but does not include the biographies of the individual players.