Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, Thorpe won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon)
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Jim Thorpe | IOC 1982, All-American, Path Lit by Lightning, Facts . . . 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
Visit Jim Thorpe, PA | History, Mountain Town Vibes Arts The town took on the name it holds today in 1954, when it became the final resting place for Olympian and famous Native American athlete Jim Thorpe His legacy is honored every year during the Jim Thorpe Birthday Celebration in May, and his mausoleum and memorial can be found along Route 903
Jim Thorpe Memorial Foundation Discover the journey of a true champion whose life continues to inspire and break barriers From the fields of Carlisle to the global stage of the Olympics, his journey showed that limits are meant to be overcome
Watch Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning | HISTORY Channel “Jim Thorpe: Lit By Lightning” explores the legendary journey of Jim Thorpe, a Native American icon whose athletic prowess reshaped the landscape of 20th-century sports, defying the brutal
Jim Thorpe - Pro Football Hall of Fame Jim Thorpe was one of the most famous athletes of his time and when the NFL was established in 1920 was selected as the first President Learn more about one of the most influential figures of the game
Jim Thorpe Was More than an Extraordinary Athlete Five illustrations from a 1911 Philadelphia Inquirer article portray a robust Jim Thorpe (also known as Wa-Tho-Huk) in his athletic prime, countering prevalent beliefs that Euro-Americans had about Indigenous people at the time: that we were a people near extinction
Thorpe, James Francis | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture Jim Thorpe was perhaps the United States' greatest athlete of the twentieth century An American Indian, he is usually considered to be Sac and Fox, although he also had Potawatomi, Menominee, and Kickapoo, as well as Irish and French, ancestry