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
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Jim 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
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
Watch Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning - HISTORY Told through his own words, these are the triumphs and tribulations of legendary Native American sports hero Jim Thorpe, whose prowess as an Olympic Gold Medalist, NFL star, and Major League
Jim Thorpe - New World Encyclopedia Thorpe's importance transcends his athletic achievements, however Like Jackie Robinson and some other minority athletes, Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Indian, overcame the "invisible" status of Native Americans in American society, to become one of the most legendary sports figures of the twentieth century Early life