James Francis Thorpe (Meskwaki: Wa-Tho-Huk, May 22 or 28, [2] 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.

2025年1月17日 · Jim Thorpe was one of the most accomplished all-around athletes in history. In 1950 he was selected by American sportswriters and broadcasters as the greatest American athlete and the greatest gridiron football player of the first half of the 20th century.

2014年4月2日 · Native American Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics but was stripped of his gold medals for violating amateur eligibility rules.

2022年8月27日 · In a new book, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss goes into great detail about the events and the myths that shaped Jim Thorpe and his legacy. It's called "Path Lit By Lightning:...

Jim Thorpe was one of the most famous athletes of his time and when the NFL was established in 1920 was selected as the first President. Learn more about one of the most influential figures of the game.

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2022年7月15日 · Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history and the victim of what many considered a century-old Olympic injustice, has been restored as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at...

In 1950, Thorpe, in an Associated Press poll of 391 sportswriters and broadcasters, was voted the greatest football star of the first half of the 20th century, easily outdistancing such gridiron legends as Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Ernie Nevers and Sammy Baugh.

THORPE, JAMES FRANCIS (1888–1953). Jim Thorpe was perhaps the United States' greatest athlete of the twentieth century. An American Indian, he is usually considered to be Sac and Fox, although he also had Potawatomi, Menominee, and Kickapoo, as …

Five illustrations from a 1911 Philadelphia Inquirer article portray a robust Jim Thorpe (also known as Wa-Tho-Huk) in his athletic prime, countering prevalent beliefs that Euro-Americans had about Indigenous people at the time: that we were a people near extinction.