Peter Allendine Quotes in Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951)

Peter Allendine: [to Jim] Hey, you! Yeah, you, come here. Hey, just a minute. What's your name?

Jim Thorpe: Jim Thorpe.

Peter Allendine: Do you have a tribal name?

Jim Thorpe: Wa-Tho-Huk.

Peter Allendine: What does it mean?

Jim Thorpe: Bright path.

Peter Allendine: Bright path, huh? Well, Bright Path, do you know the school song?

Jim Thorpe: No.

Little Boy Who Walk Like Bear: No, sir.

Peter Allendine: That's right. Well, here are the words. You memorize them, be ready to sing for us tomorrow morning.

[Jim starts to walk away]

Peter Allendine: Oh, uh, just a minute, Bright Path. Do you speak Indian?

Jim Thorpe: Yes.

Peter Allendine: Let's hear you recite the Gettysburg Address in Indian.

Jim Thorpe: Why, I reckon I can't.

Peter Allendine: Good, because when you recite the Gettysburg Address, you recite it in English. Indian isn't spoken here.

Wally Denny: Hello, Pete.

Peter Allendine: Hello.

Wally Denny: What you got here, football material?

Peter Allendine: From his attitude, I don't think he's even Carlisle material.

Peter Allendine: [to Jim] Ever play football before?

Jim Thorpe: What's football?

Peter Allendine: What's - You don't know what football is?

Jim Thorpe: No.

Peter Allendine: Well, football, Bright Path, is a white man's game, and it's played with a... leather skin, something like your suitcase here, and the object of this game is to take this leather skin and, uh... and try to run past Mr. Denny and me.

Wally Denny: Well, frosh, come on, run past them.

[Jim charges at Pete with his suitcase in his arms, and Pete knocks Jim to the ground]

Peter Allendine: I'm sorry, Bright Path, but that's football, very rough game. Indian boy got lot to learn.

Jim Thorpe: Now you try it.

Peter Allendine: Try what?

Jim Thorpe: Run past me.

Peter Allendine: Aw, forget it, Jim, you got plenty of chance next year.

Jim Thorpe: You try it!

[Jim tosses his suitcase at Pete and knocks him to the ground]

Wally Denny: Say, that wasn't bad! Come on, I'd like you to meet Pop Warner!

[Jim picks up his suitcase and walks to his dormitory]