1. Thorpe, Jim - Denton Family GenealogyProfiles Thorpe, Who Is A Cousin By Marriag jim thorpe A biography of the player, personal achievements and awards he had received. jim thorpe - Official Site - Represented here by CMG as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th Century. http://www.acun.com/dentons/thorpe.htm

James Francis Thorpe, Wathahuck-Brightpath Thunder Clan, Sac and Fox Tribe, born May 22, 1887 on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation, Prague, Oklahoma, died March 28, 1953 in Lomita, California. Jim Thorpe married Iva MILLER had the following children: Jim,Jr., Gail, Charlotte, and Grace. Iva Miller was the daughter of Finis Miller and Martha M. Denton (1859-1899). Iva's grandparents were Greenberry Jefferson Denton (1816-1890) and Charlotte McCarty. Greenberry Jefferson Denton was born in Jefferson CO, TN and died in Washington CO, AR. Greenberry was the son of Josiah Denton (1799-1866) and Catherine Sehorn. Jim Thorpe was a Native American from the Sac and Fox tribe. In the 1912 Olympics he became the first and only person to win both the Pentathlon and Decathlon; he was the first American to simultaneously play professional baseball and football; and he became the first president of the National Football League. Career Highlights * Height: 6'-1" Weight: 190 lbs.

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Bookmark This Page Jim Thorpe 1888-1953 Pictorial Parade Inc. "Jim Thorpe was probably the greatest natural athlete the world has seen in modern times." The New York Times Book of Sports Legends(1991) edited by Joseph Vecchione. Jim Thorpe of the Thunder Clan of the Sac and Fox Tribe, was born May 22, 1887, on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation, Prague, Oklahoma. In writing for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Whit Canning reported that Thorpe was the son of Hiram and Charlotte Thorpe, his Indian - name Wa-Tho-Huk - meant "Bright Path." He wrote that Thorpe had been a twin but that his brother Charlie died of pneumonia when Thorpe was 9. He also lost both of his parents when he was a teenager. In the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm Jim won both the pentathlon and the decathlon. Reporting for the New York Herald Tribune in 1953, Red Smith wrote that in the pentathlon, Jim had won the broad jump, the 200-meter hurdles, the discus throw, 1,500 meter run and was third in the javelin. In the decathlon he was first in the high hurdles, the shotput, the high jump and the 1,500. He had also been third in the 100 meters, the discus, the pole vault and the broad jump. He also placed fourth in the 400 meters and the javelin. He had come back from Stockholm with a reportedly $50,000 worth of trophies. A month after his return the Amateur Athletic Union filed charges of professionalism against him because he had played summer baseball with the Rocky Mount Club in the Eastern Carolina Leagues. Even though it had been for a small amount of money he had been stripped of his medals and his trophies sent back to Stockholm. His medals were returned posthumously on October 13, 1982.

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CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL The Carlisle Indian School football team ( 1905 ) for enlarged photo of above click here One of the legendary teams of intercollegiate football were the Indians of Carlisle. The tales of their feats, tricks and prowess are endless. The Indians pride and fierce determination enabled little Carlisle, for fifteen years, to take the measure of almost every big university football team. Victories included wins over the then powers of the day Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania and Princeton. An Army officer by the name of Lieutenant Pratt concieved the idea of a school in the East for Indian boys and girls. Here the Indians would be taught to read and write, speak English and learn a trade. Aided by Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, he pursuaded the Washington authorities to grant use of the Carlisle Barracks located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Previously these had been used to protect early settlers from Indian attack and, during the Revolutinary War, as a prison for captured Hessian soldiers. In 1879 Richard Henry Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Beginning play in 1894 they managed only one win against Harrisburg high school. In 1899 Colonel Pratt hired Glenn S. "Pop" Warner away from Cornell University as coach. Warner soon realized the Indians were exactly the kind of players had hoped to coach. He proclaimed to his wife one evening "This is a new kind of team. They're light but they're fast and tricky. Once they get into an open field, they're like acrobats, they're so hard to knock off their feet."

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Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe was born and grew up in Oklahoma. He was part Irish, French, and mostly Native American. Thorpe was a great-grandson of the warrior, “Black Hawk.” By 1912, he was in his last year of Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania. During his earlier years he was named for one of the finest track athletes in college. He competed in baseball track , the Olympics, and college American football. His dream was really to be in the Olympics and win a lot of gold medals in Stockholm, Sweden With his coach's permission he was able to compete in both pentathlon and decathlon On July 7, 1912 he won four out of the five pentathlon events, coming in third in the fifth event. He even had victories in the 200 meters, the 1500 meters, the long jump and the long jump, and the discuss, by this time the fans of Jim Thorpe couldn’t wait until the decathlon Jim Thorpe ran, jumped, and threw summoning up every skill he possessed a few days after wining events in his first Olympics. His performance by now was well known and everyone knew once they saw him stretching that he was going to win! Thorpe’s breathtaking performance captured the spectator’s attention, especially the King of Sweden who claimed Thorpe was the greatest athlete in the world.

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Congress designates Jim Thorpe as Athlete of the Century Jim Thorpe: In the News Campaign in the news Petition for "Athlete of the Century" OK honors Athlete - U.S. Stamp Gold Metals stolen - Returned Book The Jim Thorpe Area Hall of Fame needs your help ... Wheaties, the breakfast of Champians! Jim Thorpe: Athlete of the Century Campaign James Francis Thorpe accomplished arguably what no other athlete in history has. The Sac and Fox Indian won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympic games in Sweden and played both professional football and professional baseball. His feats on the football field put him on the 1911 and 1912 All-American football teams. In 1920 he became the first president of the American Professional Football Association (later to become the NFL). Jim Thorpe, the football star and Olympic legend whom Sweden's King Gustav V called "the greatest athlete in the world." was named, in 1950, by the Associated Press the greatest football player and greatest all-round athlete for the first 50 years of this century. Grace Thorpe believes that there will be a naming of the greatest athlete of the century. When others fail to give her father his due, Grace Thorpe doesn't hesitate to take them on. In 1982, Grace won her five-year battle to get the International Olympic Committee to return the two gold medals - for the decathlon and pentathlon - that her father had won in Stockholm in 1912. The medals were stripped from him after it was discovered that he had played semiprofessional baseball as a student at Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

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JIM THORPE Athlete In the 1912 Olympics Jim Thorpe won gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon. He led his college football team to a national championship the same year. Then Thorpe played six years of professional baseball, an outfielder for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Braves. In 1916 his football team, the Canton Bulldogs, won their first of three unofficial national championships, and Thorpe served as the first president of what is now the National Football League. Of mixed European and Native American background, Thorpe was a popular hero; his life story was dramatized in the 1951 film Jim Thorpe, All-American , starring Burt Lancaster . Although he never got rich because of it, Thorpe is considered one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century. Extra credit : Thorpe's Olympic medals were taken back by the Olympic Committee in 1913, when it was discovered that he had played baseball for pay (at the time the Olympics allowed only amateur athletes). The decision was controversial, and the medals were returned to Thorpe's estate in 1983... The Pennsylvania town of Mauch Chunk renamed itself Jim Thorpe in 1954, and Thorpe's body lies in a mausoleum there. Another famous multisport athlete is Babe Didrikson Zaharias Athlete of the Century Heart-felt tribute to an absolute stud The Official Jim Thorpe Website Brief biographical stats, some photos and family history

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Login My Profile My Web Site Olympians Fall in Heartbreaker CATASAUQUA - The Olympians fell to Catasauqua on Friday in the Eastern Conference Class AA, 29-28, to end the season. Click Here To Read Jim Thorpe Olympians DATE OPPOSING TEAM HOME OR AWAY RESULT Tamaqua Home Loss Mahanoy Area Away Win Panther Valley Home Win Bishop Hoban Away Win Shenadoah Valley Home Loss Minersville Home Win Pocono Mountain Away Win Schuylkill Haven Away Loss Marian Home Loss Lehighton Away Win Jim Thorpe 18, Lehighton 7 LEHIGHTON — The Olympians’s defense played inspired football yesterday, allowing a little over a yard per carry, to prevent Lehighton’s offense from getting anything started. Jim Thorpe’s offense was on target, as well. Walter Johnson pulled in seven balls for 103 yards and Jason Figura ran for 125 yards in the victory. Click Here To Read Colts Rally To Stay Alive For Playoffs Joshua Sophy jsophy@republicanherald.com JIM THORPE — Stan Dakosty gave his team a pair of options at halftime: Stay inside or go out and score three touchdowns. You couldn’t blame Marian if it chose the first. It was cold and the rain was heavier than it was at the opening kickoff. But the Colts are in the thick of a late-season District 11 Class A playoff race, and quitting wasn’t a valid option. Click Here To Read Hurricanes Romp Over Olympians Leah Zerbe lmz120@psu.edu

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Miami Awards Home Heisman Trophy Lombardi Award Outland Trophy ... Butkus Award Jim Thorpe Award Davey O'Brien Award Johnny Unitas Award Maxwell Award Bronko Nagurski Award ... Walter Camp Award Jim Thorpe Award The Jim Thorpe Award for the best defensive back in college football was created in 1986. The award was immediately accepted as one of the nation's top collegiate sports honors. Winners are judged on their performance on the field, athletic ability and character. A watch list of outstanding defensive backs is determined at the beginning of the football season and a Jim Thorpe Association Screening committee composed of former players, coaches, journalists and representatives of major conferences to determine the winner. Bennie Blades, 1987 Miami's Bennie Blades, a two-time All-American was named co-winner of the Jim Thorpe Award in 1987, along with Oklahoma's Rickey Dixon. Blades was the leader of a secondary at Miami that was considered by many to be one of the nation's finest units in 1987. He led all UM defensive backs in interceptions and tackles. Bennie Blades, perhaps the nation's most noted interception specialist (19 career), established himself as an outstanding and aggressive tackler. In his 32 career starts at the free safety position, he averaged 8.2 tackles per game. In 1987 alone, he averaged 11 stops per game.

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Abebe Bikila Alain Prost Babe Ruth Bjorn Borg ... Jesse Owens Jim Thorpe Joe DiMaggio Joe Montana Juan Manuel Fangio Julio César Chávez ... Wilt Chamberlain Important facts - Jim Thorpe played football with the following teams: Carlisle Indian School (1915-17), Canton Bulldogs (1919-20), Cleveland Indians (1921), Oorang Indians (1922-23), Rock Island Independents (1924), New York Giants (1925), Canton Bulldogs (1926) and Chicago Cardinals (1928). - He was the greatest American athlete of his era. He excelled in every sport he played. - He won the decathlon and the pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. - He played Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1919. - Football was his favorite sport. In 1912, Thorpe scored 25 touchdowns and 198 points to lead the Carlisle Indian School to the National Collegiate Championship. - In 1950, Thorpe was named by the Associated Press as the most outstanding athlete of the first half of the 20th century. Football: Jim Thorpe He forged his own legend in sports based on his accomplishments, claiming Olympic pentathlon and decathlon titles, and playing baseball and football. He was an Olympic track and field champion who lost his medals because he played baseball in the Minor Leagues. Long before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders achieved a similar distinction, Thorpe was an athlete who played both professional baseball and professional football at the same time.

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Jim Thorpe named SportsCentury athlete No. 7 Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo By Ron Flatter Special to ESPN.com Didn't we hear about Jim Thorpe from our dad or granddad? We certainly never saw him in person. But we sure knew the legend. He was the Olympic track champion who lost his gold medals because he played minor league baseball. Long before Bo and Deion, he was the athlete who played pro baseball and football at the same time. Jim Thorpe was an all-American in college as a four-position player. He was voted "The Greatest Athlete of the First Half of the Century" by the Associated Press and became a charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But Thorpe's legend was galvanized into America's conscience at the 1912 Olympics. He won the decathlon and pentathlon in Stockholm. When King Gustav V of Sweden congratulated Thorpe, he said, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." Thorpe reputedly replied, "Thanks, king." He returned home a star. Thorpe's name was so big, he received that most American of honors a ticker-tape parade in New York City. "I heard people yelling my name," he said, "and I couldn't realize how one fellow could have so many friends." Later that year, Thorpe scored 25 touchdowns and 198 points to lead an outstanding Carlisle Indian School team. That launched him toward a pro football career, highlighted in 1920 when he helped found the American Professional Football Association, which would evolve into the National Football League.

18. JIM THORPE jim thorpe. jim thorpe was a great Native American athlete. He was anOlympic champion, and also played football and baseball. thorpe http://wwwald.bham.wednet.edu/jthorpe.htm

Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe was a great Native American athlete. He was an Olympic champion, and also played football and baseball. Thorpe was born near Shawnee, Oklahoma on May 22, 1887. He went to school at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. (My great-great-great auntie went to school with Jim Thorpe, and my grandpa went to school with his son Richard Thorpe). Jim helped make football a popular sport in the United States. Standing 6 feet, one inch tall and weighing 190 pounds, he was an outstanding kicker, tackler, and halfback. He was the first president of what is now known as the National Football League (NFL). In 1950, Jim was declared the best football player of the half-century. When Thorpe was on the boat to Stockholm for the 1912 Olympics with all of the other competitors for the Olympics, most jogged around the boat decks and lifted weights, but one of them didn't- his name was Jim Thorpe. One afternoon, Jim discovered a hammock. For all eleven days that the others trained, Thorpe just laid in the hammock dozing. The trainer was very, very angry, but the manager disagreed. Jim practiced mentally and was a fast learner. At the Olympics, Jim entered the Pentathlon. This sport is a series of five events. Thorpe came out representing America, but he competed for himself. He finished third in the javelin throw but won all four events. He won his first gold medal easily.

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JIM THORPE: JIM THORPE OVERVIEW: Jim Thorpe-A old town reborn. Jim Thorpe, a model for tourism and travel development. JIM THORPE INFORMATION: Jim Thorpe: The Man Jim Francis Thorpe was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on May 28th,1888, a descendant of the famous Chief Black Hawk. As a youth he attended the Carlisle Indian Academy near Harrisburg. In 1912, he participated in the Stockholm Olympics. He broke record after world record, and set a point total unprecedented in the modern Olympiad. Jim Thorpe won every event in the pentathlon except the javelin throw. King Gustav of Sweden, in presenting the gold medals, said to Jim Thorpe,"Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." Soon after the Olympics, a newspaper reporter discovered that, while at Carlisle, Jim Thorpe had played a season of professional baseball for $60 a month. Despite the protestations of Jim Thorpe that he didn't know he was breaking any rules, the Olympic Committee stripped him of his gold medals on the grounds that Thorpe had forfeited his amateur status. Over the years, Jim Thorpe continued to play professional sports, including the Canton Bulldogs football team. He also played football at Carlisle Institute and went on to play professional football and have a six-year professional baseball career with the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Boston Braves. In 1950, he was voted the "greatest male athlete of the first 50 years of the 20th century" by the sports writers of the Associated Press. However, he had fallen victim to illness and economic insecurity. In 1951, he was a charity case in the cancer ward of a Phildelphia hospital. His wife, Patricia is reported to have said,"We're broke. Jim has nothing but his name and his memories. He has spent money on his own people and has given it away. He has been often exploited."

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Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe, the greatest athlete of the century, has been described as being one of the most naturally gifted althletes to have ever lived. In his article "The Natural", Nicholas Lemann tells the story of how Thorpe first got into track and field while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. At the school the students were trained in manual trades and then sent out in the summers to live with and work for farmers in the surrounding area. Thorpe had been in the program for apprentice tailors. "...in the spring of 1907, Thorpe, dressed in overalls and work boots, is wandering across the Carlisle campus with a group of friends from the tailors program. They pass the field where the varsity track team is practicing the high jump. Thorpe shyly asks if he can have a try at clearing the bar, which is set at five foot nine. The guys on the track team snickering, say, Sure kid, try it. Whiz, over he goes. The next moring, Thorpe is summoned to the office of Pop Warner, Carlisle's human-bulldog track and football coach. "Boy you've just broken the school record!" Warner exclaims....The following summer Thorpe sails for the Olympics in Stockholm. Always reluctant to practice and so naturally gifted that he doesn't have to, he spends the voyage napping in a hammock rather than working out with the team." In the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm Jim won both the pentathlon and the decathlon.

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