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Extractions: American athlete, one of the greatest all-around athletes of the 20th century. He was born near Prague, Indian Territory (now in Oklahoma), and educated at Hask ell Institute, in Lawrence, Kansas, and at Carlisle Indian School. His full name was James Francis Thorpe, but his original Native American name was Wa-tho-huck ("Bright Path"); his parents were of Sauk and Fox ancestry. In 1907, his first year at Carlisle, young Thorpe displayed remarkable prowess in football and track and won the attention of Pop Warner, then Carlisle's coach of these sports. Thorpe performed brilliantly on the varsity football team, but in 1909 he withdrew from the school and went to North Carolina. There he worked as a farmhand and played semiprofessional baseball. Returning to Carlisle in 1911, Thorpe played halfback on the football team, contributing largely to Carlisle victories over some of the most powerful teams in the country. In 1911 and 1912 he made the All-American team. Thorpe excelled during this period in many other sports, including track and field, baseball, lacrosse, basketball, ice hockey, swimming, boxing, tennis, and archery. Thorpe was a member of the United States track and field team at the Olympic Games of 1912 and was widely recognized as the world's greatest all-around athlete after he won both the pentathlon and the decathlon. Early in 1913, however, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), having learned that he had played semiprofessional baseball, voided his amateur status and disallowed his Olympic victories. In 1982 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) posthumously restored both his amateur status and his two Olympic medals.
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Extractions: Jim Thorpe, Star at Stockholm Jim Thorpe has been called the world's greatest athlete. He was a track star and played both professional baseball and football. Thorpe was Native American. He was born in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1888 and later attended the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Thorpe became the nation's leading track-and-field competitor. He won All-American honors in football at Carlisle in 1911 and 1912. When Thorpe competed in the Olympic Games, only amateur athletes could participate. Because he had briefly played semiprofessional summer baseball in 1909 and 1910, Thorpe was asked to return his gold medals in 1913. The medals were finally returned to Thorpe's family in 1983. Advertise TRUSTe Approved Privacy Statement
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Extractions: Cornerback Shane Walton Named A Semifinalist For The Jim Thorpe Award Senior is a leading candidate for best secondary player in the nation. Nov. 6, 2002 Notre Dame senior cornerback Shane Walton has been named one of 14 semifinalists for the Jim Thorpe Award presented annually to the nation's best college defensive back. The other semifinalists include:
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Extractions: Number Description CIS Football, Teams Jim Thorpe with backfield of 1912 CIS Football Team. CIS Football, Teams Jim Thorpe and players on 1912 CIS Football Team. CIS Football, Teams Jim Thorpe with backfield of 1912 CIS Football Team. CIS Football, Teams Fourteen members and coach of the CIS Team of 1912. CIS Football, Teams Carlisle Indian School Football Team of 1907 including Jim Thorpe, Coach Warner and 24 other team members, all in uniform. CIS Football, Teams Jim Thorpe and about ten other players running during a warmup before a game. Number of bystanders are in the background. CIS Football, Teams Jim Thorpe and 1911 CIS Football Team with football which reads "1911, Indians 18, Harvard 15" CIS Football, Teams Jim Thorpe with backfield of 1912 CIS Football Team. CIS Football, Teams Jim Thorpe, with football, far right, in football practice scrimmage. CIS Football, Teams Jim Thorpe and other players on the 1911 CIS Football Team. CIS Football, Small Groups Jim Thorpe, Pete Calac and Joe Guyon of the CIS Football Team of 1912 shown in a composite photograph. CIS Football, Small Groups
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Extractions: Back Jim Thorpe Arthur, Alex, Cameron and James January 17, 2001 Jim Thorpe - Athlete of the Century ,http://oraibi.alphacdc.com/necona/necona.htmlFebruary 1, 2001 Arthur- Place Jim Thorp was born in Central, Oklahoma on May 28, 1888. He made a difference to the world because he was the first Native American to play in the Olympics in 1912. He also made a difference to American football because he was the first Native American to play football. Jim Thorpe, his family and all of the other Indians living all over the states got captured and put into the state of Oklahoma. The place Jim Thorpe lived in was in acres of open grass fields, in some places- dusty, and the whole entire place was flat. The climate was kind of cool and most of the times warm. Just like Japan, although the summer is longer there then here. The vegetation of the area he lived in has acres and miles of just green grass. The area that Jim lived in had no buildings- just a house and a farm with cows, rabbits, deer and armadillos in the middle of nowhere. The jobs that Jim and his brothers had to do where just doing chores. The language that Jim Thorp and his family used was Sack Fox and English. I think it was the jobs that changed him because all the jobs he did where hard jobs and heavy jobs. I think all the hard and heavy jobs helped him build his muscles so he could run fast and throw far. He was the first head master of the football league. I think him learning English helped him into football as well.
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Extractions: 2002 Bald Eagle Football Numerical Roster No. Player Pos. Yr. Ht. Wt. Hometown (High School) Adam Angelici WR Jr. Bethel Park (Bethel Park) Sheldon Gray CB So. Norristown (Norristown) Kellen Bush FS So. Pittsburgh (Penn Hills) Ngoyi Mukusa CB Fr.-R Jim Thorpe (Jim Thorpe) Jim Hanzely SS Sr. DuBois (DuBois Area) Winston Alspaugh DB Fr.
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Extractions: Did You Know ? Index Public Services Search Links Contact Us ... Site Map Jim Thorpe - one of the World's Greatest Athletes On Prairie Avenue, just north of Rosecrans Street, there is a park called Jim Thorpe Park. That is because Thorpe lived in Hawthorne during the late 1940s and was, at one time, considered by many "the Greatest Athlete in the World." Thorpe excelled in virtually every sport, playing football, basketball, baseball, and participating in track and field. He had numerous major feats, especially in football and track. In track and field, Thorpe participated in the pentathlon and decathlon and swept gold medals in both of those in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. In the decathlon, Thorpe broke the World record which stood until 1928. Thorpe also stood out in football, playing first at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. During the 1911 and 1912 seasons, his outstanding rushing ability guided Carlisle to big wins over then powerhouses Army (West Point, New York), University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. He was a three-time All-American, including first-team in his final two seasons. For much of the time, Thorpe was know for his track and field ability but decided to try out for the Carlisle football team, head coached by the legendary Pop Warner, in the fall of 1907 when he was 20 years old. He borrowed a uniform that was two sizes too big. The players chuckled but Warner had him take the uniform off because he did not want the track and field standout to get hurt. Later, though, Warner tossed Thorpe the football and had him do some tackling practice. From there, he took off being a third-team All-American player in the 1908 season.
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Extractions: Describing Jim Thorpe as a great athlete would be doing him a severe injustice. A better description would be calling him the greatest athlete of the 20th Century. This label will probably be debated by many, but Thorpe's accomplishments speak louder than words. King Gustav V of Sweden told Thorpe: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." James Francis Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. Although there is much confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the date according to his estate. His very existence was an excellent representation of the melting pot that was America. He had some French and Irish blood but he was of mostly Sac and Fox Indian heritage. His Indian name, Wa-Tho-Huk, translated to "Bright Path", something that Thorpe definitely had ahead of him. The career biography of Jim Thorpe reads like an encyclopedia of sports, encompassing virtually every major athletic event available. In the 1912 Olympic Games, he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events. In the same year, he led his Carlisle Indian School team to the national collegiate championship, scoring 25 touchdowns and 198 points. Following the college football season, Thorpe went on to play 6 years of Major League Baseball. Meanwhile, he managed to lead the Canton Bulldogs football team to unofficial world championships in 1916, 1917, and 1919. When he eventually finished his playing days in 1928 with the Chicago Cardinals, Jim Thorpe had become an athletic attraction that crowds flocked to see. Thorpe died on March 28, 1953.
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Extractions: Jim Thorpe was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame a full ten years after his death as part of the original class of 1963. Thorpe was the first president of the NFL (then called the American Professional Football Association) in 1920, and was the gold medalist in decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics.
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Wheaties To Honor Sac And Fox Indian Jim Thorpe On Box 3. thorpe played football professionally well past his prime, retiring in 1928at age 41. 4. jim thorpe played major and minor league baseball for 20 years http://www.aipc.osmre.gov/Notes from Native America/8_2001.htm
Extractions: Wheaties to Honor Sac and Fox Indian Jim Thorpe on Box Associated Press Published Nov 20 2001 JIM THORPE, Pa. (AP) Jim Thorpe, the American Indian once called " the world' s greatest athlete, " will soon grace the cover of a Wheaties box. Grace Thorpe, his 80-year-old daughter, and Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker unveiled the box design at a ceremony Tuesday at Jim Thorpe High School. Thorpe died in 1953. Thorpe never lived in the Carbon County town that bears his name, but he did attend the Carlisle Indian School of Pennsylvania, where his prowess on the gridiron catapulted the school to victories over the likes of Pitt, Army and Penn State. Thorpe is known for winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. After winning his second gold medal, Sweden' s King Gustav V shook his hand and said, " Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world!" " Thanks, King, " he replied. Thorpe also played professional baseball with the New York Giants and the Boston Braves. Burt Lancaster played the lead role in the 1951 movie about his life, titled " Jim Thorpe, All American."
Extractions: Jim Thorpe is No. 3 on my list of the century's Five Greatest Athletes. The Sac and Fox Indian left the Oklahoma plains in 1907 and became an All-American running back, an Olympic champion of mythic proportions, a star/president of the NFL and, in his spare time, a major league baseball player for parts of six seasons. Thorpe sailed from New York to Stockholm in 1912 aboard the ocean liner Finland . As other American Olympians trained on a cork track laid on a deck, Thorpe sat by in silence. A New York sportswriter named Francis Albertani asked, "What are you doing, Jim? Thinking of your Uncle Sitting Bull?" "No," Thorpe said, "I'm practicing the broad jump. I've just jumped 23 feet eight inches. I think that can win it." At five inches less, Thorpe, who preferred visualization to actual workouts, did in fact win the broad jump event in the Olympic decathlon; he also won three other of the 10 decathlon events en route to the gold medal. He won four of five pentathlon events to earn a second gold. On shaking Thorpe's hand in congratulations, King Gustav V of Sweden said, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." The wonder is, the king had seen only a fraction of Thorpe's athletic ability.
TSN Presents - Football's 100 Greatest Players The lifesize statue of jim thorpe prepares visitors for their nostalgic trip intopro football's past, much as the real thorpe prepared fans for pro football http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/100/88.html
Extractions: Football history Fantasy football Team gear "Jim Thorpe could have made any team in any league. What's more, he would have been the best player on that team. He would have been the best player in the league. There wasn't anything he couldn't do better than anyone else." Hall of Fame player/coach Jimmy Conzelman, 1963 He guards the main entrance to the Pro Football Hall of Fame museum, threatening to deliver one of his dreaded stiff-arms or to trample anyone in his path. The lifesize statue of Jim Thorpe prepares visitors for their nostalgic trip into pro football's past, much as the real Thorpe prepared fans for pro football future eight decades ago. The name and legend are still powerful, and his exploits are recounted with flair and exaggeration. But one thing that cannot be exaggerated is Thorpe's role as the game's first great running back, first gate attraction and spiritual guru. Thorpe had gained worldwide acclaim as a college football hero for the Carlisle Indian School and a double gold medal winner in the 1912 Olympics before he played his first professional football game in 1915 for the Canton Bulldogs. Thick-armed with a moon face, 42-inch chest and penetrating black eyes, Thorpe was first and foremost a great athlete, maybe the most versatile of the first half century. He complemented his football career by playing major league baseball.
UNCP Hosts Jim Thorpe Day, Friday, March 28 jim thorpe was a Native American from Oklahoma, who garnered fame in 11 sports andwas the star running back on the 1912 national championship football team at http://www.uncp.edu/news/2003/jim_thorpe.htm
Extractions: Fax: 910.521.6694 UNCP hosts Jim Thorpe Day, Friday, March 28 "Jim Thorpe is unquestionably the greatest athlete of all time," says Thorpe scholar and UNCP professor, Dr. Bob Reising. Dr. Reising said as much for ESPN's "Sports Century" program on the greatest American athletes of the century. The scholar's interest in Thorpe has led him to travel and lecture around the country and to establish The Jim Thorpe Scholarship, an endowed scholarship for UNCP students interested in or majoring in American Indian Studies UNC Pembroke is hosting a scholarship dinner and silent auction on Friday, March 28, which is 50 years to the day after Jim Thorpe's death. The cost of the dinner and silent auction, which features Thorpe memorabilia and the world's largest collection of Thorpe photographs, is $50.
