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  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Jim-Thorpe-American-athleteJim Thorpe | Biography, Olympics, & Facts | Britannica

    May 5, 2024 · Jim Thorpe. Byname of: James Francis Thorpe. Born: May 28, 1888, near Prague, Indian Territory [now in Oklahoma], U.S. Died: March 28, 1953, Lomita, California (aged 64) Awards And Honors: All-America team. Olympic Games. Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963) Pro Football Hall of Fame (inducted 1963) 1 All-Pro selection. (Show more) Recent News.

  4. www.usatoday.com › story › sportsJim Thorpe posthumously receives Presidential Medal of Freedom -...

    May 3, 2024 · The Jim Thorpe Award is given annually to the best defensive back in college football. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to “individuals who ...

  5. www.nytimes.com › 2022/07/15 › sportsJim Thorpe Is Restored as Sole Winner of 1912 Olympic Gold Medals

    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 at...

  6. www.history.com › news › jim-thorpe-sports-native-american-athlete-olympicsHow Jim Thorpe Became America’s First Multi-Sport Star

    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 of...

  7. olympics.com › en › athletesJim THORPE - Olympics.com

    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.

  8. baseballhall.org › discover › going-deep#GoingDeep: The Legend of Jim Thorpe | Baseball Hall of Fame

    Thorpe won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian School and played in the major leagues for John McGraw ’s New York Giants.

  9. www.profootballhof.com › players › jim-thorpeJim Thorpe | Pro Football Hall of Fame

    Jim Thorpe - the record of his accomplishments in the field of sports is magnificent. His figure stands out as a beacon light to all young men aspiring to be great athletes and good citizens of these United States. Jim Thorpe was a great man, a keen competitor, who today gives me the greatest honor which has ever been bestowed on this "old mill ...

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