81. Terra - Specials - Sports Icons Of The 20th Century jim thorpe played football with the following teams Carlisle Indian School football jim thorpe. jim thorpe He forged his own legend in sports based on http://www.terra.com/specials/sportsicons/thorpe_en.html

Abebe Bikila Alain Prost Babe Ruth Bjorn Borg ... Jesse Owens Jim Thorpe Joe DiMaggio Joe Montana Juan Manuel Fangio Julio César Chávez ... Wilt Chamberlain Important facts - Jim Thorpe played football with the following teams: Carlisle Indian School (1915-17), Canton Bulldogs (1919-20), Cleveland Indians (1921), Oorang Indians (1922-23), Rock Island Independents (1924), New York Giants (1925), Canton Bulldogs (1926) and Chicago Cardinals (1928). - He was the greatest American athlete of his era. He excelled in every sport he played. - He won the decathlon and the pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. - He played Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1919. - Football was his favorite sport. In 1912, Thorpe scored 25 touchdowns and 198 points to lead the Carlisle Indian School to the National Collegiate Championship. - In 1950, Thorpe was named by the Associated Press as the most outstanding athlete of the first half of the 20th century. Football: Jim Thorpe He forged his own legend in sports based on his accomplishments, claiming Olympic pentathlon and decathlon titles, and playing baseball and football. He was an Olympic track and field champion who lost his medals because he played baseball in the Minor Leagues. Long before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders achieved a similar distinction, Thorpe was an athlete who played both professional baseball and professional football at the same time.

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83. Anecdote - Jim Thorpe - Hip Hip football star jim thorpe was once asked about his incredible running ability. I give em the hip, thorpe replied with a smile, then I take it away. http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=3573

84. Jim Thorpe Football Cards Others Vintage football Cards jim thorpe. To see a large picture of any card,pick the small picture or the card number. http://www.footballcardgallery.com/player/Jim Thorpe/

Gallery Home About This Site Vintage Football Cards for Sale Email me Card Search Example searches: Starr, Cowboys, Notre Dame. Advanced Search Popular Searches Rookie Cards Hall-of-Famers Heisman Winners Sets 1952 Bowman Large 1952 Bowman Small 1953 Bowman 1954 Bowman ... 1972 Topps Teams Atlanta Falcons Baltimore Colts Boston Patriots Buffalo Bills ... Washington Redskins Colleges Alabama Auburn Florida Florida State ... Others... Vintage Football Cards: Jim Thorpe To see a large picture of any card, pick the small picture or the card number. Picture Set Card Team Position College Notes 1955 Topps All-American Jim Thorpe halfback Carlisle HOF 1963 1963 Stancraft Jim Thorpe Canton Bulldogs halfback Carlisle HOF 1963

85. INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES jim thorpe, of Native American, French and Irish descent, He later playedprofessional football for the Canton Bulldogs and was actually the first http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=54230

86. Triumph And Tragedy Marked Jim Thorpe's Life - Sports - The Washington Times The Washington Times Sports Triumph and tragedy marked jim thorpe s life. He is a member of the pro football and track and field halls of fame. http://www.washtimes.com/sports/20050704-123427-9896r.htm

@import url(/css/washingtontimes.css); advertisement Advertise Search Sitemap Contact Us ... Arbor Ballroom July 4, 2005 Sports Front Page Sports Page Page 1 of 2 Email Print Subscribe advertisement By Dick Heller July 4, 2005 King Gustav V of Sweden: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." Jim Thorpe (reportedly): "Thanks, king." Thorpe, a full-blooded American Indian, was named the best male athlete of both the half-century and century. He is a member of the pro football and track and field halls of fame. A town was renamed for him (Jim Thorpe, Pa.) near where he starred in football for what then was known as the Carlisle Indian School. A movie starring Burt Lancaster was made of his life. The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp bearing his likeness in 1998. The following year, the House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring him the greatest athlete of the century. Could, say, Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders equal all that? Forget it. "What happened?" Page 1 of 2 Email Print Subscribe Front Page ... Reprints and Permissions advertisement Previous Dick Heller At Wrigley, history is always a big winner

87. Triumph And Tragedy Marked Jim Thorpe's Life - Sports - The Washington Times The Washington Times Sports Triumph and tragedy marked jim thorpe s life. In both seasons, thorpe was a firstteam choice on football pioneer Walter http://www.washtimes.com/sports/20050704-123427-9896r_page2.htm

@import url(/css/washingtontimes.css); advertisement Advertise Search Sitemap Contact Us ... Arbor Ballroom July 4, 2005 Sports Front Page Sports Page Page 2 of 2 Email Print Subscribe advertisement By Dick Heller July 4, 2005 Said Jim, seriously: "We were raised on canned condensed milk and we ran out of cans." Yet his greatest fame was achieved between the two football seasons and far, far from home. Then came the decathlon, a three-day event from July?13 to 15. He placed fourth or better in all 10 events and finished 700 points ahead of his nearest rival. "I hope I will be partly excused by the fact that I was simply an Indian schoolboy and did not know I was doing wrong," his letter read. How unfair were the two governing bodies? Wrote the customarily gentle Rice more than 40 years later, "They merely robbed the Indian in cold-blooded fashion. ... The treatment accorded Thorpe, in my opinion, is one of the cruel turns of all American sport." Thorpe played for six pro teams before retiring in 1928 at 41, but none won a championship. After Stockholm, it seemed, everything was downhill. Thorpe had four children with each of his first two wives, but his heavy drinking contributed to the breakup of both marriages. He went from job to job and during the Depression of the 1930s often played an Indian chief in the movies.

88. Hokiesports.com - Football OKLAHOMA CITY The leading candidates for the 2004 jim thorpe Award have in the Pro football Hall of Fame simply as The Legend , thorpe also played http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/07272004aaa.html

Football News Roster Schedule Past Schedules ... Bowl Game History Can't find it? Or Try Our Site Map Williams Named to Thorpe Watch List List is second to which junior defensive back has been named July 27, 2004 OKLAHOMA CITY - The leading candidates for the 2004 Jim Thorpe Award have been announced in a preseason watch list released by the Jim Thorpe Association. Virginia Tech junior cornerback Jimmy Williams is one of 29 college players on the list. It marks the second preseason list the junior from Hampton has been named to, as he is also a preseason candidate for the Bronko Nagurski Defensive Player of the Year. The Thorpe Award, presented annually to the nation's best college defensive back, is one of college football's most sought after and prestigious awards. It is named after history's greatest all-around athlete, a man who excelled as a running back, passer and kicker on offense, but also was an awesome defensive back. Recognized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame simply as "The Legend", Thorpe also played professional baseball and won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon. The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists the first Monday in November and then to three finalists the Monday before Thanksgiving. The winner will be announced on ESPN's College Football Awards Show, telecast from Disney World on Dec. 9. The official presentation of the award will be in Oklahoma City on Feb. 8.

89. Today In History: May 28 jim thorpe played football for Carlisle in 1907, 1908, 1911 and 1912. thorpe excelledat every sport he played. The great great grandson of an Indian http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may28.html

@import url(../css/am15_global_ss.css); @import url(ss/tih1_ss.css); Search all collections Today in History The Library of Congress American Memory Home Today in History: May 28 sources archives yesterday Yellow Ribbon from 1911 Suffrage Parade, Votes for Women, 1848-1921 On May 28 and 29, 1851, the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention met in Akron . Mrs. Frances D. Gage, convention president, began the proceedings with a stirring call to arms: "Opening Address," The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Akron, Ohio, May 28 and 29, 1851 , published 1851. Votes for Women, 1848-1921 The House Maid photograph of a painting by William McGregor Paxton, between 1900 and 1920. Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920 The convention's Report on Labor noted the following statistics: the average seamstress earned between $.75 and $1.50 per week for 15-18 hours of labor; domestics about $6 per month; and a female teacher in Ohio on the average of $21.49 per year. Statistics also showed that most female teachers in the state were paid less than one-half the salary of their male counterparts.

90. Baseball Almanac - Gibson, Gipper & Thorpe The autographed game ball football is signed by the entire 1928 Notre Dame jim thorpe began his major league career the year after the olympics and http://www.baseball-almanac.com/treasure/autont2a.shtml

Baseball Almanac: Where What Happened Yesterday is Being Preserved Today Advertising Downloads Feedback Newsletter ... Year In Review Google Baseball Almanac Related Links Articles by Frank Ceresi Treasures Menu "A homer a day will boost my pay." - Josh Gibson F rank Ceresi and Carol McMains, formerly of the National Sports Gallery in Washington, D.C., currently run FC Associates , a museum consultation and sports appraisal business. They have also lectured, appeared on television, authored many articles on sports history and studied countless sports artifacts that can only be described as "national treasures". B aseball Almanac is pleased and honored to present an insightful column written by the former curator of the National Sports Gallery and current president of FC Associates National Treasures by Frank Ceresi MCI National Sports Gallery We are now into the year 2000 and as we begin the new millennium it is important for us to appreciate the history of sport in our country by cherishing some of the relics from the past. For this column, my first in the New Year, I will highlight a few recent additions to the fabulous collection that we have been able to assemble here at the MCI National Sports Gallery. Each of these items is a true museum piece and has never been publicly displayed before. Josh Gibson D.C.'s Own Home Run King

91. Jim Thorpe, Red Grange And George Halas Elected To Football Hall Of Fame January jim thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame January29, 1963 in history. http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1963/january_29_1963_126424.html

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92. Thorpe, Jim. The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 thorpe, jim. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. A Native American, he was a leading college football player and also the best http://www.bartleby.com/59/12/thorpejim.html

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93. MSN Encarta - Jim Thorpe Great books about your topic, thorpe, jim, selected by Encarta editors thorpe performed brilliantly on the varsity football team, but in 1909 he http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574686/Jim_Thorpe.html

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95. Michigan State University Newsroom - MSU Lecture To Explore Story Of Jim Thorpe, “Balancing, Straightening and Refocusing the Picture of jim thorpe” will be He played professional football for several years, finishing his playing http://www.newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/1763/content.htm

Releases Entire Site News Releases Special Reports MSU Facts Photos ... Contact Us News Release Thursday, September 15, 2005 MSU lecture to explore story of Jim Thorpe, American sports legend Contact: Doug Noverr, Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures, (517) 355-2400, noverr@msu.edu ; or Kristan Tetens, University Relations, (517) 355-5633, tetenskr@msu.edu EAST LANSING, Mich. – The complicated legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most outstanding athletes will be the focus of a free lecture this week at Michigan State University. “Balancing, Straightening and Refocusing the Picture of Jim Thorpe” will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in Spartan Rooms B and C of the International Center. Speakers are Douglas Noverr, chairperson of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures and an expert on American sports history, and Robert Reising, visiting scholar in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures and professor in the Department of English, Theatre and Languages at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. James Francis Thorpe, of Sac and Fox Indian heritage, was born in 1888 in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. In the 1912 Olympics, he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events. In the same year, he led his Carlisle Indian School team to the national collegiate football championship, scoring 25 touchdowns and 198 points. Thorpe went on to play six years of professional baseball while leading the Canton Bulldogs football team to unofficial world championships in 1916, 1917 and 1919. He played professional football for several years, finishing his playing days in 1928 with the Chicago Cardinals. In a 1950

96. BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project. jim thorpe was the greatest allaround athlete of the Deadball Era. He is amember of the Pro football, College football, and National Track and Field http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=985&pid=14196

97. Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers | Jim Thorpe | Smithsonian's Nationa jim thorpe, one of America s finest athletes, never forgot his roots. He alsogained national fame in football. In 1908, thorpe left to play pro http://americanhistory.si.edu/sports/exhibit/champions/thorpe/index.cfm

"Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." "Thanks, King." Find Athletes 1980 U.S. Hockey Team Hank Aaron Muhammad Ali Lance Armstrong Geese Ausbie Roger Bannister Bonnie Blair Brian Boitano Terry Bradshaw Tim Brauch Jim Brown Owen Churchill Roberto Clemente Dominique Dawes Gertrude Ederle Althea Gibson Marilyn Hamilton Mia Hamm Howard Head Sonja Henie Betsy Jochum Michael Jordan Billie Jean King Sandy Koufax Abraham Lincoln Bobby Morrow First Modern Olympics Arnold Palmer Pel© James L. Plimpton Jackie Robinson Bill Russell Babe Ruth John L. Sullivan Jim Thorpe Kristi Yamaguchi view larger This first-place trophy from a 1914 foot race at the Bronxdale (New York) Athletic Club is one of the hundreds Thorpe won. view description view description Jim Thorpe All-Around Athlete and American Indian Advocate Jim Thorpe, one of America's finest athletes, never forgot his roots. Of Sac and Fox heritage, he was sent to the Carlisle (Pennsylvania), Indian Industrial School. There he showed signs of greatness in track and field and baseball. He also gained national fame in football. In 1908, Thorpe left to play pro baseball but soon returned to train for the Olympics. Thorpe returned to pro baseball, playing with the New York Giants for 15 years, while simultaneously playing and coaching football. In 1920, he helped organize a forerunner of the NFL and served as its first president. Thorpe also was an actor, appearing in nearly 50 films. After retiring, he became involved in Native politics, lecturing on American Indian life.

98. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Forum But not as a football player at least, American football, as the Brits say .LOL To answer your question jim thorpe, jim Brown and Gayle Sayers come http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/forum/boards/viewtopic.asp?topicid=63376&page=25

99. AggieAthletics.com :: A&M’s Appel Named To Thorpe Award Watch List The winner will be announced on ESPN’s College football Awards Show at Walt DisneyWorld on Dec. 8. Jaxson Appel S Sr3L jim thorpe Award http://sports.tamu.edu/pressRelease.php?PRID=10041

100. Member - Pro Football Hall Of Fame James Francis thorpe. . .AllAmerica halfback at Carlisle, 1912 Olympic .First big-name athlete to play pro football, signing with pre-NFL Canton http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=213

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