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Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon ). He also played football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and professional basketball.
Jim Thorpe (known as East and West Mauch Chunk until 1954) is a borough and the county seat of Carbon County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is historically known as the burial site of Native American sports legend Jim Thorpe .
Jul 19, 2022 · In the earliest part of the 20th century, when golf, horse racing, boxing and baseball ruled the sporting universe, Jim Thorpe (1887-1953) emerged as maybe the greatest athlete the world had ever known. Some might argue, more than a century later, that he still is.
Jim Thorpe – All-American (UK title: Man of Bronze) is a 1951 American biographical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe, the great Native American athlete who won medals at the 1912 Olympics and distinguished himself in various sports, both in college and on professional teams.
Founded in 1818 and originally known as Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe is now named after the greatest athlete of all time, and there's plenty of rich history to discover.
It’s been 100 years since Jim Thorpe dashed through the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and we’re still chasing him. Greatest-evers are always hard to quantify, but Thorpe is especially so...
Sep 21, 2023 · Jim Thorpe is a charming, small Pennsylvania town featuring white water rafting, old-time railroad rides, biking, great restaurants, and unique shops. It’s about a two-hour drive from New York City and Philadelphia.
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. An excerpt elaborates: Once in awhile, across the vista of the passing years ...
Jul 15, 2022 · The The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe was reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 decathlon and heptathlon at the Stockholm...
The reputation of Jim Thorpe, “the greatest athlete in the world,” will finally be restored to the peak of Olympic glory. Again, in spite of Jim Thorpe’s effortless grace as an athlete, nothing about his memory has been easy. Another conflict is nearing a head about the resting place of his body.
