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4 days ago · Jim Thorpe was one of the most accomplished all-around athletes in history. In 1950 he was selected by American sportswriters and broadcasters as the greatest American athlete and the greatest gridiron football player of the first half of the 20th century.
Jul 15, 2022 · Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history and the victim of what many considered a century-old Olympic injustice, has been restored as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon...
3 days ago · Jim Thorpe, who was Sac and Fox, was born in Prague, Oklahoma and in 1912 became the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal. Inside courtroom Historic moments 📷 Key players Bird ...
Nov 17, 2021 · Decades before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders starred in baseball and football, Jim Thorpe was America’s original multi-sport athlete. A two-time college football All-American and charter member...
Jim Thorpe. Class of 1963. Career games played. 52. Seasons. 12. "My earning days in athletics are at an end and while sports have been my livelihood, I have really played for the love of competition.” Enshrinement Speech. Read More. Career Highlights. Learn More.
A town called Jim Thorpe. Thorpe died from heart failure on 28 March 1953. He was 64. Associated Press named him the USA’s greatest athlete and American football player of the first half of the 20th century, while an ABC Sports poll in 2000 ranked him as the best American athlete of the century.
But Jim Thorpe was different. While he played the sport at the big league level with uneven results for a half-dozen seasons, his overall athletic prowess a century ago before embarking on a professional baseball career was already legendary.
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