1. Top 100 Players - 10 Jim Thorpe 100 Greatest Players of AllTime 10 jim thorpe. jim thorpe, Halfback. Carlisle Indian School, 1907, 1911-1912 jim thorpe is most famous for his Olympic achievements in the decathlon and pentathlon and his greatness as a professional football As a college football player, it could be argued http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Top_100_Players/Top_100_Players_10_Jim_Thorpe

100 Greatest Players of All-Time #10 Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe, Halfback Carlisle Indian School, 1907, 1911-1912 Acknowledged as one of the greatest all-around American athletes ever, Jim Thorpe is most famous for his Olympic achievements in the decathlon and pentathlon and his greatness as a professional football and baseball player. As a college football player, it could be argued that Thorpe, also known as Bright Path, was the greatest individual talent ever taking a team to a title all by himself. It wasn't a given that Thorpe was going to be one of the giants of college football. Glenn "Pop" Warner had no real interest in the five-foot tall Thorpe for the football team and wanted him to run track. After sitting on the bench for the football team in 1907, Thorpe ran track in 1908 before leaving to play baseball in the Carolina League. After going home to Oklahoma after his arm gave out, Warner summoned Thorpe back to Carlisle, Pennsylvania to prepare for the 1912 Olympics. When Thorpe came back, he was the 6-1 and 190 pounds and the perfect athlete for the football team. 25 touchdowns, 198 points and a national title in 1912 later, Thorpe was a college football legend.

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JIM THORPE Athlete Jim Thorpe wowed the sporting world by winning gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. Later that year, against opponents like the fabled Army football team, he scored 25 touchdowns for the Carlisle Indian School. Then Thorpe played six years of professional baseball as 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 Jim Thorpe's Olympic Scandal The brief tale of why he was stripped of his medals The Official Jim Thorpe Website Brief biographical stats, some photos and family history

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Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History THORPE, JIM , Olympic and professional athlete. Born in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Thorpe was the son of a farmer of Irish and Sac and Fox Indian descent; his mother was part French and part Potawatomi Indian. The tribal name given him at birth was Wa-tho-huck, which meant Bright Path. In 1904, he was sent to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Glenn S. "Pop" Warner, the legendary coach at Carlisle, "discovered" Thorpe in 1907 when he saw him high-jump six feet in street clothing. Thorpe became a star on the Carlisle track team and in 1908, a promising substitute on the football team. Thorpe left Carlisle in 1909 to play baseball for two seasons in the newly formed East Carolina minor league. Unlike other "amateur" athletes who played in the league under aliases, Thorpe used his own name. After returning to Carlisle in 1911, he led the football team to an 11-1 record and was named to Walter Camp's All-American team. Thorpe's most notable achievement came at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm where he won two gold medals. He took four of the five track events in the Pentathlon and scored an astounding 8,412 points in winning the Decathlon, a score that was unsurpassed for fifteen years. King Gustav V of Sweden said to him, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." Thorpe replied, "Thanks, King."

4. American Indians In Football Includes a history of the Carlisle Indian school football team and profiles of jim thorpe and Sonny Sixkiller. http://members.tripod.com/~johnnyrodgers/centralsqindian.html

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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Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Maps ... World Civilizations Encyclopedia of North American Indians Thorpe, Jim Sauk and Fox football and baseball player and Olympic athlete James Francis Thorpe (Wa Tha Huck, Bright Path) was born on May 22, 1887, in Keokuk Falls, south of what is now Prague, Oklahoma, on the Sauk and Fox Indian Reservation. He and his twin brother, Charlie, were baptized on November 17, 1887, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, in what is now Konawa, Oklahoma, their mother's home. Jim was one of eleven children born to Hiram P. Thorpe, a man of mixed Sauk and Fox and Irish ancestry; and Charlotte Vieux, of mixed Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Menominee, and French ancestry, the great-granddaughter of Jacques Vieux, a French fur trader. Jim's father was a horse breeder and trainer and occasional bootlegger. Life was a struggle for the family, and only five of the eleven children grew to adulthood. Jim used to run down the horses on their ranch on the banks of the North Canadian River, an activity that developed his strength and stamina, and helped him hone the athletic skills that would later make him famous. Like many other Indian children, Thorpe went off to Indian boarding schools. He began at the Sauk and Fox Mission School at age six, and went on to Haskell Institute and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. While the government's assimilationist lessons were imperfectly learned—Thorpe never forgot that he was an Indian—he never again lived in an Indian community.

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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 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.

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MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Search ... Money ESPN Network: ESPN.com NBA.com NHL.com WNBA.com ... ESPNdeportes ALSO SEE More on Jim Thorpe Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo By Ron Flatter Special to ESPN.com "[Jim] Thorpe was early 20th century when sportswriting was mythologizing, so it becomes hard to tell what's real and what's myth. He's kind of half a modern sports figure, and half a kind of Paul Bunyan, American mythic figure. The appeal is the idea of the kind of frontier, superhuman, natural man," says author Nick Lemann on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Jim Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. 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. 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, when he won the decathlon and pentathlon in Stockholm. At the awards ceremony, King Gustav V of Sweden congratulated him: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world."

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Gilded Age (1878-1889) Jim Thorpe played football for Carlisle in 1907, 1908, 1911 and 1912 World-Class Athlete Jim Thorpe Was Born May 28, 1888 Do you play multiple sports? If you admire great athletes like Deion Sanders that do, meet world-class athlete Jim Thorpe. Thorpe was a Native American who excelled at every sport he ever played. Born in a one-room cabin in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) on May 28, 1888, Thorpe was named the greatest football player and the greatest American athlete of the first half of the century by American sports writers and broadcasters in 1950. The great-great-grandson of an Indian warrior and athlete, Thorpe attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. In 1909, he left school to play baseball for two years before returning to play football, baseball, and basketball, and train for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in track. How do you think he did? page 1 of 3 Home Jump Back in Time Gilded Age (1878-1889) Jim Thorpe Site Map

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Gilded Age (1878-1889) World-Class Athlete Jim Thorpe Was Born Jim Thorpe played football for Carlisle in 1907, 1908, 1911 and 1912 CREDIT: Peck, H. F. "Carlisle, '05." 1905. Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991, Library of Congress. Home Jump Back in Time Gilded Age (1878-1889) Jim Thorpe ... Site Map

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Thorpe, Jim 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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