202. Indeed, even legends can’t do it all. If there were ever a historical exception to that, though, it was Jim Thorpe. 2024 PARIS OLYMPICS: Meet the members of Team USA for the 2024 Summer ...
The exact date of Jim Thorpe’s birth is unknown, but it is generally believed that the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States—regarded by many as one of the ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reinstated Jim Thorpe as the winner of the Stockholm 1912 Olympics’ decathlon and pentathlon. The decision overturns a controversy that has hung ...
Pro Football Hall of Famer JIM THORPE has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for ...
Jim Thorpe is a household name for many sports fans ... when he won both the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. In the following year, however, the International ...
In fact, Olympian Jim Thorpe once had his Olympic medals stripped for accepting money to play semi-professional baseball in ...
In 44 games that Jim Thorpe played for Carlisle, he had 53 touchdowns. He would finish this season with 25 touchdowns and 198 ...
In 1912, Jim Thorpe walked the streets of those same American cities, past crowds of people straining to see him. He had just won gold medals for both the pentathlon and the decathlon at the Olympic ...
In addition to his legendary performance on the football field, Thorpe played professional baseball and won Olympic gold ...
Thorpe, winner of the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon and a ... the two small Pennsylvania towns combined into one and was renamed Jim Thorpe.
We explore the life of the American Indian who was the star of the 1912 Olympics. Show more This special programme explores the sad and controversial life of Jim Thorpe - the American Indian who ...
In addition to his legendary performance on the football field, Thorpe played professional baseball and won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon. The Paycom Jim Thorpe Award is ...