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	Jim Thorpe - Athlete of the Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim Thorpe, the football star and Olympic legend whom Sweden's King Gustav V called "the greatest athlete in the world." was named, in 1950, by the Associated Press the greatest football player and greatest all-round athlete for the first 50 years of this century.
		According to Jim Thorpe's daughter and family historian Grace Thorpe, her father is the only American athlete is history to excel in three major sports both as an amateur and as a professional.
		Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes of all time.
	www.alphacdc.com /necona/jimthorp.html (1234 words)

	Amazon.com: Jim Thorpe: All American: Video: Burt Lancaster,Charles Bickford,Steve Cochran,Phyllis Thaxter,Dick ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		JIM THORPE, ALL AMERICAN is based on the autobiography of the same name, and in the hands of director Michael Curtiz, Thorpe, as played by the athletic Burt Lancaster, comes across as a man beset by a multitude of demons.
		Jim Thorpe was a Native American, often called an Indian because of Columbus' original mistake that the natives he encountered in the New World were residents of India, not an entirely new and unknown land.
		Jim struggled for years, as we see in the film, and, although he apparently never was financially successful, he at least lived long enough to receive some recognition for his athletic achievemtns.
	www.amazon.com /Jim-Thorpe-American-Burt-Lancaster/dp/6302344883 (2178 words)

	Jim Thorpe - MSN Encarta
		Thorpe excelled during this period in many other sports, including track and field, baseball, lacrosse, basketball, ice hockey, swimming, boxing, tennis, and archery.
		Thorpe was a member of the United States track and field team at the Olympic Games of 1912 and was widely recognized as the world's greatest all-around athlete after he won both the pentathlon and the decathlon.
		Thorpe subsequently had a few small parts as an actor in motion pictures, lectured on Native American culture, and served as a seaman in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761574686 (416 words)

	Jim Thorpe wins Schwab Cup Championship - Boston.com
		Thorpe rallied in the final holes to stay on top of a tight field with a 4-under 68 in the Champions Tour's season-ending event, cruising to a two-stroke victory over Tom Kite and his second win at Sonoma Golf Club in four years.
		Thorpe, the third-round leader, missed makable putts on the first two holes after the turn, muttering to himself as he walked the course with the similarly struggling Roberts.
		Thorpe then buried a 20-foot chip from the rough for birdie on the 15th, raising his arms in celebration as it dropped.
	www.boston.com /sports/golf/articles/2006/10/29/jim_thorpe_wins_schwab_cup_championship (677 words)

	Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 near the town of Prague, Oklahoma.
		Thorpe was a heavy drinker at times, which was probably the main reason the couple divorced in 1924.
		Jim Thorpe: All-American starred Burt Lancaster and was directed by Michael Curtiz (the director of Casablanca).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Thorpe (2940 words)

	Jim Thorpe's sons want his body back from Jim Thorpe, Pa.
		Thorpe's three surviving sons from his second marriage have always regarded his burial in a foreign town as unseemly and sacrilegious.
		In the town of Jim Thorpe, his idea is eliciting a range of reactions, everything from sympathy for the Thorpe family to bewilderment that it could expect such a concession.
		Thorpe held the title of world's greatest athlete even after his medals were taken from him because he had made $15 a week playing semiprofessional baseball.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20010114jimthorpe4.asp (1737 words)

	Jim Thorpe
		Jim Thorpe, the greatest athlete of the century, has been described as being one of the most naturally gifted althletes to have ever lived.
		Jim Thorpe is the only American athlete to have excelled at the amateur level and at the professional level in 3 major sports--track and field, football, and baseball.
		Jim Thorpe of the Thunder Clan of the Sac and Fox Tribe, was born May 22, 1887, on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation, Prague, Oklahoma.
	www.the-surfs-up.com /sports/jimthorpe.html (1221 words)

	Welcome To Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
		Jim Thorpe, native American Hero of the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, was buried here in 1953 when the towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk merged and changed their names to honor his memory.
		Although Jim Thorpe protested that he hadn't realized he was breaking any rules, The Olympic Committee stripped him of his medals on the grounds that Thorpe had forfeited his amateur status.
		Thorpe died in 1953, and his widow discovered to her sorrow that his native state of Oklahoma would not assist in developing a suitable memorial to him.
	www.visitjimthorpe.com /new/history.htm (2643 words)

	Memorable Olympic Moments: Jim Thorpe, Stockholm 1912
		Jim Thorpe competes in the pentathalon competition in Stockholm, 1912.
		Thorpe was a track and football star under legendary coach Pop Warner at Carlisle Institute, a vocational school for Native Americans, before and after his trip to Stockholm.
		Thorpe's mistake was owning up to it and ironically, it would come out years later that Thorpe and his teammates at Carlisle were paid more for playing college football than for professional baseball.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/mm-thorpe.html (289 words)

	Today in History: May 28
		Thorpe's versatile talents earned him the distinction of being chosen, in 1950, the greatest football player and the greatest American athlete of the first half of the twentieth century by American sports writers and broadcasters.
		Thorpe won the gold medal in both the decathlon and pentathlon events at the Stockholm Olympics, but was stripped of his medals when a reporter revealed he had played semi-professional baseball.
		Thorpe was the first president of the new American Professional Football Association (later the National Football League).
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/may28.html (1251 words)

	Jim Thorpe Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		James Francis Thorpe (Native American name, Wa-tho-huck or Bright Path) was born south of Bellemonta, near Prague, Oklahoma, on May 28, 1888, the son of Hiran P. Thorpe of Irish and Sac and Fox Indian extraction and Charlotte View of Potowatomi and Kickapoo extraction.
		Thorpe had matured to almost six feet in height and 185 pounds and led Carlisle to outstanding football seasons in 1911 and 1912.
		Thorpe outdistanced Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski for the former and led Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey for the latter, being paired with Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the outstanding female athlete.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jim-thorpe (1331 words)

	Jim Thorpe Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Jim Thorpe was born on Saturday, May 28, 1887, in Prague, Oklahoma.
		Thorpe was 25 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 14, 1913, with the New York Giants.
		"He (Jim Thorpe) was the greatest athlete of his time, maybe the greatest of any time in any land and he needed no gilded geegaws to prove it.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=thorpji01 (317 words)

	Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim Thorpe is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
		Jim Thorpe currently benefits from tourism initially spurred on by the celebration of its old architecture and has since then spawned into new industries that are modern creations.
		Jim Thorpe is located 3 miles north of Lehighton and 3 miles east of Nesquehoning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Thorpe,_Pennsylvania (709 words)

	ESPN Classic - Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo
		Thorpe was one of the few in his immediate family to have a long life.
		Warner promoted Thorpe as "the greatest all-around athlete in the world." Thorpe dominated an 18-15 upset of highly regarded Harvard with his four field goals and outstanding running in front of 30,000 in Cambridge.
		The standard Thorpe set was so high that, if he had duplicated his marks 36 years later, they would have held up well enough to win a silver medal.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Thorpe_Jim.html (1392 words)

	CNN.com - Roller-coaster life of Indian icon, sports' first star - Jul 13, 2004
		Thorpe had just captured a gold medal in the decathlon, his second after winning the pentathlon days earlier -- remarkably winning eight of the two events' 15 individual segments.
		Thorpe often noted that he was 5/8ths Native American -- his father being half-Irish, his mother one-quarter French, the rest of his ancestry linked to Sauk, Fox and Pottowatomie tribes.
		Thorpe took various, often low-paying jobs to support his family over the next 21 years.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/07/09/jim.thorpe (1504 words)

	Jim Thorpe - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim Thorpe is a borough in Carbon County, near Lehighton, Allentown and Lehigh Valley, in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
		Jim Thorpe and the surrounding region have no significant means of public transportation.
		Blue Mountain Ski Area is just a few minutes from Jim Thorpe and features several ski hills and a snow tubing area.
	wikitravel.org /en/Jim_Thorpe (614 words)

	Living Legends - Jim Thorpe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Thorpe whose concept of being generous was leaving a big tip for the fljack dealer.
		Thorpe said that lack of commitment to the game is one of the main reasons he won only three times on the PGA Tour.
		Thorpe, who has won more than $11 million in six seasons on the Champions Tour, told his pastor in early April that he planned to contribute the $250,000 to the church's building fund, but that the donation was going to be over a three-year period.
	www.afrogolf.com /Thorpe.html (790 words)

	Jim Thorpe
		Jim Thorpe was a Native American from the Sac and Fox tribe.
		In the 1912 Olympics he became the first and only person to win both the Pentathlon and Decathlon; he was the first American to simultaneously play professional baseball and football; and he became the first president of the National Football League.
		Thorpe should be designated `America's Athlete of the Century'.
	www.dentongenealogy.org /thorpe.htm (569 words)

	Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers \| Jim Thorpe \| Smithsonian's National Museum of American History \|
		Jim Thorpe, one of America's finest athletes, never forgot his roots.
		Yet the International Olympic Committee revoked the medals for violating the Olympic ban on professional athletes—a rule that was unevenly enforced and, in Thorpe's case, smacked of racism.
		Thorpe's medals were returned to his family in 1982.
	americanhistory.si.edu /sports/exhibit/champions/thorpe/index.cfm (301 words)

	NASC: Native American Sports Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim won a collegiate National Championship in football and in 1912 he was the intercollegiate ballroom dance champion.
		Jim was named the greatest athlete of the first half-century, in 1950 he was also named the greatest football player of the first half-century.
		In 1999 both houses of Congress honored Jim Thorpe by designating him as the Athlete of the Century, and in 2000 ABC's Wide World of Sports honored him as their Athlete of the Century.
	www.nascsports.org /index.php?page=athletes&sub=thorpe&back=olympians (282 words)

	Jim Thorpe ~ Kirkus Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim Thorpe was a modern American Indian hero.
		At Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Thorpe excelled in sports and later became known as the world's greatest athlete.
		Taking money to play semi-pro baseball one summer in North Carolina led to trumped-up charges that he had become a professional, and he was stripped of the gold medals he had won in the 1912 Olympics.
	www.walden.com /web/teach/jimthorpe/kirkusreviews (180 words)

	Jim Thorpe News
		A Jim Thorpe man scheduled for trial this week in Carbon County Court on charges he molested a 6-year-old boy agreed to a plea bargain Tuesday.
		Superior Court has upheld a Carbon County judge's decision to dismiss a malicious prosecution lawsuit filed against Jim Thorpe police and the borough by a teacher who was acquitted of charges that he exposed...
		After several shaky years during which Jim Thorpe's police pension program lost almost a third of its value, the fund again has failed to meet expected earnings and needs a $14,464 contribution from the borough...
	www.topix.net /city/jim-thorpe-pa (784 words)

	Jim Thorpe, Athlete of the Century
		Grace Thorpe made a presentation on the Justice for Jim Thorpe campaign, an effort to restore the trophies that were taken from him after winning the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics.
		Jim Thorpe photo albums and scrap books were displayed and those attending brought their own family memorabilia.
		Thorpe’s achievement was recognized officially by the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and others, who wrote letters of congratulation to him.
	home.epix.net /~landis/thorpe.html (2096 words)

	ESPN.com: Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo
		Jim Thorpe was an all-American in college as a four-position player.
		During the summers of 1909 and 1910, Thorpe was paid - reports have him earning from $2 a game to $35 a week - for playing for Rocky Mountain in Fayetteville in the Class D Eastern Carolina League.
		Thorpe died at 64 of a heart attack on Mar. 28, 1953.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00016499.html (1254 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thorpe was everything Cusack expected him to be — an exceptional talent and an unparalleled gate attraction.
		While Thorpe's exploits tend to be exaggerated with the passing years, there is no question he was superb in every way.
		Of mixed French, Irish, and Sac and Fox Indian heritage, Thorpe was born in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma, but when he was sixteen his father sent him to the Carlisle Institute, a school for Indian youth.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=213 (425 words)

	History Of Jim Thorpe PA
		Today, our community, of course now known as Jim Thorpe in memory of one of our nation’s greatest athletes, offers a remarkable diversity of experience to visitors and residents, much as it did a hundred years ago.
		And as the economy of the Lehigh Valley continues to develop, more employment and entrepreneurial opportunities are afforded Jim Thorpe’s fulltime residents.
		In serving our members, the Jim Thorpe Area Council is mindful of our town’s rich history and the interest we all have in understanding and preserving it.
	www.jimthorpe.org /history.php (576 words)

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