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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)
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
Jim Thorpe Memorial Foundation Discover the journey of a true champion whose legacy continues to inspire, redefine excellence, 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
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
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
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
The ‘First Celebrity Athlete,’ a Century Before Social Media Before Deion Sanders or Bo Jackson, there was Jim Thorpe More than a century ago, Thorpe was a multisport star, excelling in football, baseball and lacrosse, and winning gold medals in the