DEPTHS OF GLORY.

Scorecard: Life On and Off the Field GAMEPLAN: THE SMART FAN'SGUIDE TO RIGHT NOW: READ B PATH LIT BY LIGHTNING b By David Maraniss In 1931, Pop Warner, who had been Jim Thorpe's football coach at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, wrote in I Collier's i , "Our treatment of the Indian is a dark chapter in the history of the United States, which is perhaps the reason the white man has never made an honest effort to understand the red man." "From the moment I started telling acquaintances I was writing a book about Thorpe, the response was often some variation of 'Oh, I read a book about him in fourth grade,'" he writes. In endeavoring to go deeper, Maraniss examines how those myths came to be, focusing on how Thorpe was viewed and treated by the country for which he won Olympic gold medals in both the decathlon and pentathlon (beating, among others, George Patton). [Extracted from the article]

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