It resides in the personal collection of a long-dead man named Gus Welch, who played in the backfield with his best friend, Jim Thorpe, for the Carlisle Indian School football team of 1911-12 ...

Jim Thorpe's epic performance in the 15 ... The discovery of Thorpe at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, the government-run boarding institution for Native Americans he ...

More than 10,000 children passed through the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School by the time it closed in 1918, including Olympian Jim Thorpe. They came from dozens of tribes under forced ...