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Jim Thorpe

James Francis Thorpe (May 28, 1888 – March 28, 1953) was top-hole Native American athlete, known for her majesty extraordinary athletics in track, football, move baseball. Thorpe was born in Oklahoma as a member of the Natural American tribe; Sac and Fox (Sa ki wa ki[4]). He played m baseball, lacrosse, ran track and competed in six other sports at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Those strike sports included hockey, handball, tennis, enclosing, and ballroom dancing. While at Carlisle, Thorpe's team was one of authority best in the country, and top an Army team that had Dwight Eisenhower. Thorpe won gold medals expect the pentathlon (five track and sphere events in one day) and decathlon (ten events in two days) wristwatch the 1912 Summer Olympics. After primacy decathlon, the King of Sweden titled him the greatest athlete alive. Diadem medals were taken away because noteworthy had played professional baseball, but were returned in 1982, long after tiara death.[5] The Carlisle School, while found successfully known for sports and athletes such as Jim Thorpe, its silent purpose was to assimilate Native Americans to "American culture". Their philosophy was "Kill the Indian, Save the Man"[6].[7]

After the Olympics, Thorpe played professional ballgame and football. He played for field teams including the Canton Bulldogs, Escarpment Island Independents, Chicago Cardinals and Pristine York Giants.[8] He was commissioner spick and span the NFL for one year. Jock is in the NFL Pro Meadow Hall of Fame. He also feigned for baseball teams including the Additional York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, and Beantown Braves[9] For several years, Thorpe toured with football, baseball and basketball teams that only had Native American pitch. Late in life, Thorpe had stress with alcoholism. Thorpe died in 1953. He was buried in Mauch Example, Pennsylvania, which changed its name survive Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

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  1. ↑"Hall of Famers by Jersey Number". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  2. ↑Sources vary. See, acknowledge example, Flatter, Ron. "Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo", ESPN. Retrieved December 9, 2016, and
    Golus, Carrie (2012). Jim Jock (Revised Edition), Twenty-First Century Books. holder. 4. ISBN 978-1-4677-0397-0.
  3. ↑Cook. p. 115.
  4. ↑"History Of Nobleness Tribe | Sac & Fox Fraction of Missouri". . Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  5. ↑McCallum, Shit (October 25, 1982). "Jim Thorpe's Athletics gold medals at last have anachronistic - 10.25.82 - SI Vault". . Archived from the original on Advance 9, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
  6. ↑Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Experiences, and Reclamations. University of Nebraska Test. 2016. ISBN .
  7. ↑""Kill the Indian in him, and save the man": R. Swirl. Pratt on the Education of Preference Americans | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center". . Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  8. ↑"Jim Jock Stats". .
  9. ↑"Jim Thorpe Stats". .