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There's been only one all time, AllAmerican football player andhis name is jim thorpe. - jim Wood, Rochester Jeffersons. He
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Extractions: Thorpe's athletic achievements at the collegiate level were at the Carlisle Indian Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which competed against the major universities of the time. Besides his accomplishments in football, he was a one-man track team and excelled in basketball, lacrosse, baseball and all other sports he attempted. He also won a national ballroom dancing contest. He was voted the greatest football player and the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century. Sports historian Murray Olderman called him the "greatest all-around athlete in the history of sports, dating back to Coreobus of Elis in the eighth century before the birth of Christ." "Football will never see another Thorpe. The two or more platoon system produces defensive players who don't know how to carry the ball or famous offensive players who don't know how to block or tackle. There's been only one all time, All-American football player and his name is Jim Thorpe." - Jim Wood, Rochester Jeffersons. "He blocked with his shoulder and it felt like he hit you with a 4 x 4." Cover Art Home Biography About Us ...
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Jim Thorpe's Relatives Pledge To Get His Body Back To Oklahoma
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Extractions: JIM THORPE, Pa. (AP) Thorpe lies under a monument on a hill outside of this town that he probably never even visited while he was alive. That upsets Jack Thorpe, 64, the youngest of Thorpe's five living children, who is seeking to have his father given a proper Indian burial in his native Oklahoma. He has asked for the village to give up the body and have it returned. "We as a family had offered any way we can to work with the city,'' Thorpe said. "It's a great honor to have a town named after your father. We offered to work with them to help them succeed, but they don't need the bones of my father to succeed.'' Jack Thorpe's resentment has been brewing for nearly 50 years. Following Thorpe's death in 1953, his family made plans to bury him in Oklahoma. But his third wife, Patricia, said she didn't have enough money to give Thorpe the burial she thought he deserved. She then took Thorpe's body from Oklahoma after Gov. William H. Murray refused to sign a spending bill authorizing a monument in Thorpe's honor. Patricia Thorpe announced that she was looking for a place that would honor her husband and ended up here, 70 miles north of Philadelphia in a community nestled in a narrow valley in the Poconos, where civic leaders pledged to give him a monument. They also pledged to merge the boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk and incorporate together as Jim Thorpe, which happened in 1954.
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Extractions: Thorpe, Jim (28 May 1888-28 Mar. 1953) , athlete, was born James Francis Thorpe near Prague, Indian Territory (now Okla.), the son of Hiram Thorpe and Charlotte Vieux, farmers. Part Sac and Fox Indian, Thorpe was given the tribal name Bright Path. He attended the Sac and Fox Indian Agency School near Tecumseh, Oklahoma, and the Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, where he was introduced to football. In an effort to curb Thorpe's tendency to abandon his schooling, in 1903 his father sent him to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania to receive vocational training. Carlisle, established in 1879, was a part of the U.S. government's efforts to assimilate Native Americans into white society. There, Thorpe came under the guidance of football and track coach Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner . Impressed with the young man's athletic talents, Warner encouraged him to compete on the track team in 1907; Thorpe immediately became a star, breaking most of the school's records. He played halfback on the 1908 football team, and against the University of Pennsylvania he scored two touchdowns on long runs to help Carlisle register an upset. He was named to Walter Camp 's third-team All-America that year.
Canku Ota - Decermber 1, 2001 - Wheaties Honors Jim Thorpe
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Extractions: credits: JIM THORPE, Pa.(BUSINESS WIRE)Nov. 20, 2001 Wheaties, The Breakfast of Champions, announced today at a ceremony held in Jim Thorpe, PA, that the legendary Jim Thorpe, an American Indian who left his humble beginnings on an Oklahoma reservation to become known as "the world's greatest athlete,'' will be honored on the cover of the celebrated cereal box. "My dad had a bowl of cereal almost every day for breakfast, and of course we had Wheaties,'' said Jim Thorpe's daughter, Grace Thorpe, 80. "He was very modest and humble when it came to all of the attention, but he would be very honored to be recognized by The Breakfast of Champions.'' Members of the Thorpe family and Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker unveiled the new Wheaties box during the ceremony at the Jim Thorpe High School football stadium and participated in a parade to celebrate the occasion. The Pennsylvania state legislature passed a resolution, "Recognizing the great athletic achievements of Jim Thorpe and celebrating his appearance on the Wheaties cereal box.'' Thousands of school children, many of them who are among those who wrote letters to Wheaties, also marched in today's parade and participated in the ceremony.
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Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia
jim thorpe. thorpe, a Sac indian (his Sac name was WaTho-Huk or Bright Path), participatedin many sports, playing American football and baseball, before he
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Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James "Jim" Thorpe May 28 March 28 ) was an American sportsman He was born in Prague, Oklahoma Thorpe, a Sac indian (his Sac name was Wa-Tho-Huk or Bright Path ), participated in many sports, playing American football and baseball , before he competed in the Olympic Games in Stockholm . There he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events, earning him a compliment from the Swedish king: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world". In , however, Thorpe had to return his medals, as it was discovered that he had played semi-professional baseball in and , which was against the - then very strict - amateurism rules. However, the medals were restored again in
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jim thorpe continued to play professional baseball until 1919, with the New YorkGiants He then helped to form the National football League, where he served as
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Extractions: Jim Thorpe was a Native American from the Sac and Fox Tribe. His Native American name, Wa-Tho-Huck, meant Bright Path, and he was the great grandson of Black Haw, the Sac and Fox war chief. Jim grew up in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. At age 20, he left for Pennsylvania to attend Carlisle Indian School, where he was a member of the school boxing, wrestling, lacrosse, gymnastics, swimming, hockey, handball, basketball, football, track, and baseball teams. Jim Thorpe's career reads like an encyclopedia of sports. He played semi-professional baseball during summer vacations; then having qualified for the Olympics, he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events in the 1912 Olympic Games. The King of Sweden told him "Sir, you are the greatest athlete of the world." The Olympic honors given to Jim were short lived, however, because when the International Olympic Committee found that he had played semi-professional baseball, the strict rules of amateurism required that he be deemed ineligible for Olympic competition. The medals were returned. Jim Thorpe continued to play professional baseball until 1919, with the New York Giants, the Cleveland Indians, and the Chicago Cardinals. He then helped to form the National Football League, where he served as a player and coach of the Canton Bulldogs until his retirement age the age of 40 in 1928. Jim was one of only two men in history to have played for both the New York Giants football team (as a running back), and the New York Giants baseball team (as an outfielder).
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Extractions: "Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century" James Francis Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin in Prague Lincoln County ) Oklahoma east of Oklahoma City and just north of Interstate 40 . He had some French and Irish blood but he was of mostly Sac and Fox Indian heritage. His Indian name, Wa-Tho-Huk, is translated as "Bright Path". In showcasing Thorpe's athletic ability, one must look first to the 1912 Olympic Games where he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events. Later that year, he led his Carlisle Indian School football team to the national collegiate championship by scoring 25 touchdowns. Thorpe went on to play six years in baseball's Major Leagues and led the Canton Bulldogs football team to the unofficial World Championship in 1916, 1917, and 1919. He served as the first president of the American Professional Football Association (precursor of the National Football League) in 1920 and retired from the sport in 1928. Thorpe passed away in March of 1953. Find similar pages at Famous Oklahomans
Jim Thorpe's Olympic Scandal
football and baseball. He retired in 1928 after playing his last game for the ChicagoCardinals. A commentator on that November 30th game wrote, jim thorpe
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Extractions: Jim Thorpe's Olympic scandal Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world. bodyOffer(27455) So spoke King Gustav V of Sweden to Jim Thorpe, a man who totally dominated track and field in the early part of the 20th Century. But with the passage of time, Jim Thorpe is best remembered for the loss rather than the winning of Olympic Gold medals. Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in Oklahoma. His parentage was a mixture of French, Irish, Sac and Fox Indian. Almost immediately Jim proved himself as a natural athlete. At the age of 25 he was competing for the United States at the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912. He won Gold in both the decathlon and the pentathlon events. That same year led his football team, the Carlisle Indian School, to claim the National Collegiate Championship. Thorpe finished the year with 25 touchdowns and 198 points. Following the triumphs of 1912, Thorpe went on to play Major League Baseball. For six years he played for the New York Giants, from where he spent a short time playing in the outfield for Cincinnati. Thorpe was the ultimate in multi sports talent. He was adept at a raft of sports, including tennis, golf, billiards, rowing, gymnastics and bowling. Despite his physical achievements Thorpe was not an overpowering physical specimen. Standing at five foot, eleven inches, he weighed about one hundred and eighty five pounds.
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Extractions: Jim Thorpe James (Jim) Francis Thorpe with the Sac and Fox name of "Bright Path", was born on May 22, 1887 on a farm just south of Prague, Oklahoma. In 1950, through an Associated Press poll of 393 sports experts, Jim Thorpe was selected as the greatest male athlete, as well as the outstanding football player of the first half of the 20th century. Jim Thorpe also played big league baseball and was the only contestant in the history of the Olympic Games to win both the pentathlon and decathlon championships. The son of Indian parents, Jim Thorpe received his schooling on the sac and fox Indian reservation and at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, preparatory to entering Carlisle Pennsylvania Indian School on a part-time basis in 1904. At Carlisle he attracted the attention of the famous coach, Glenn S. ("Pop") Warner, who helped develop him into a football and track star. After an absence from Carlisle of several years, Thorpe returned to the campus, and his accomplishments in the 1911 and 1912 seasons won him selection by Walter Camp at the All-American football teams for both years. His scoring on 198 points in the 1912 season was exceeded only twice in the next 35 years. Jim Thorpe's attainments in the 1912 Olympic Games of Stockholm, Sweden, marked the peak of this career. With relative ease he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events, placing first in four pentathlon events, and first in four and third in four of the decathlon contests. A year later, as a result of disclosures that Thorpe had played professional baseball in 1909 and 1910 with the Fayetteville and Rocky Mount teams of the Eastern Carolina League, his name and accomplishments were officially expunged from the Olympic records.
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and was buried in the Pennsylvania town of Mauch Chunk, renamed jim thorpe in hishonor. In 1963, thorpe was a charter enshrinee to the Pro football Hall of
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Extractions: Oklahoma was not even a state when Jim Thorpe was born there. His Indian name, Wa-Tho-Huk, means "Bright Path." The very definition of "all-around athlete," Thorpe excelled in every sport he attempted. Thorpe attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1912, where he starred as an All-American football halfback. At the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Thorpe won gold for the decathlon and pentathlon, but those medals were stripped from him after it was discovered that he had played semiprofessional baseball while a student at Carlisle. Decades later, Thorpe's daughter was successful in her quest to get the International Olympic Committee to return the two gold medals, saying, "The modern day Olympics started in 1896, and they had no hard and fast rules on mixing professional and amateur sports. They sort of made the rules on Dad." Following college, he played six seasons of professional baseball (1913-1919) and 15 seasons of professional football (1915-1929). In 1920, he became the first president of the American Professional Football Association, and helped found the National Football League in 1922. Thorpe was named the greatest all-around athlete of the first half of the century by sportwriters in 1950. Thorpe died in 1953 and was buried in the Pennsylvania town of Mauch Chunk, renamed Jim Thorpe in his honor.
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Extractions: Jim Thorpe was born in an Indian territory in Oklahoma to parents of Sac and Fox ancestry. Thorpes original Native American name was Wa-tho-huck ("Bright Path"). As a young boy Jim was forced to attend a white mans school that had recently opened up near his familys reservation. Jim was reluctant to go to school and would have liked to spend all his time in the great outdoors. Even as a child Jims athletic ability was able to shine through. Though Jim was reluctant to attend school, his father prepared him at a young age that the times for the Indians were changing and Jim would need his education further down the road. Jim went on to finish his primary schooling and to further his education Jim headed to Carlisle Indian School to begin his work on a college education.
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Extractions: Toll Free: (800) 764-7652 INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Courage Awards Courage Award 2000 recipient Hailey Mathis and friends from Bridge Creek, Oklahoma. Hailey is a survivor of the May 3, 1999, tornado. INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe staff celebrate the awards presentation The INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center Courage Awards were established in 1994 to recognize and honor individuals who have overcome disabilities caused by injury or illness by facing the physical and mental challenges of rehabilitation with courage and determination. The awards are named after the man known as the World's Greatest Athlete. Jim Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Indian, won gold medals in the 1912 Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden, in the pentathlon and decathlon events. Those medals were confiscated in 1913 on the grounds that Thorpe had been a professional athlete. The medals were presented again to the Thorpe family in 1983. Thorpe went on to establish a career in professional football, and was a founding father of the National Football League.

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