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    media related to Jim Thorpe. Jim Thorpe at the Team USA Hall of Fame Jim Thorpe at Olympics.com Jim Thorpe at Olympedia Jim Thorpe at the Pro Football...
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    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...
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  • The Jim Thorpe Award, named in memory of multi-sport athlete Jim Thorpe, has been awarded to the top defensive back in college football since 1986. It...
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  • 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...
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  • Look up Jim Thorpe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jim Thorpe (1887–1953) was a Native American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Jim Thorpe may also...
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    The Jim Thorpe House is a historic house in Yale, Oklahoma. In 1917, Jim Thorpe bought a small home in Yale, Oklahoma and lived there until 1923 with...
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    2022. Thorpe faces two years in prison Jim Thorpe sentenced to one-year prison term Jim Thorpe, Champions Tour golfer, released from jail Jim Thorpe at the...
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    Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe. The Grace F. Thorpe Collection is held by the National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Thorpe was born on December...
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  • The Jim Thorpe Association is a civic and charity organization based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Its parent corporation is the Jim Thorpe Athletic Club...
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  • founded in the city, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Canton. Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox), the Olympian and renowned all-around athlete, was Canton's...
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  • The Jim Thorpe Memorial Trophy was an American football award presented by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) to the most valuable player (MVP)...
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  • are listed alphabetically by IOC country code.   Host country (Sweden) Jim Thorpe, the winner of the pentathlon and decathlon events, was subsequently disqualified...
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  • He played college football for the Air Force Falcons, where he won the Jim Thorpe Award in 2023. Taylor grew up in Frisco, Texas and attended Lone Star...
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  • The Jim Thorpe Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest award presented by the Jim Thorpe Association. Without consideration of athletic accomplishments...
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  • was disappointing, losing twice to the Canton Bulldogs, who were led by Jim Thorpe, and splitting a pair of games with the Columbus Panhandles. In 1920,...
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    Thompson and Ashton Eaton have all won back-to-back decathlon titles, Jim Thorpe won both the decathlon and pentathlon titles in 1912, and Eero Lehtonen...
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    This began when Gustav V of Sweden told Jim Thorpe, "Sir, you are the world's greatest athlete" after Thorpe won the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics...
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    to 12 athletes. Jim Thorpe's gold medal was stripped by the International Olympic Committee in 1913, after the IOC learned that Thorpe had taken expense...
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    com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-08-05. "Jim THORPE | Olympic Athlete | Stockholm 1912". Olympic.org. Retrieved 2012-08-05...
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    member. Hay chose his own running back, Jim Thorpe, as the league's inaugural President; Hay believed Thorpe's status and fame as an athlete would bring...
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    significant milestone in American sports history with Jim Thorpe, a Native American athlete. Thorpe achieved a unique feat, clinching gold medals in both...
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  • Thorpe (1929–2014), former UK Liberal Party leader Jerry Thorpe (1926–2018), American TV and film director Jim Thorpe (1888–1953), U.S. athlete Jim Thorpe...
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    feature both the decathlon and the new pentathlon, both won by the American Jim Thorpe. Electric timing was introduced in athletics, while the host country disallowed...
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  • Terrier) dog kennels. All of the Indians players were Native American, with Jim Thorpe serving as its leading player and coach. The team played in the National...
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    contested in Olympic Games from 1906 through 1924. In the 1912 Olympic Games, Jim Thorpe won both the pentathlon and decathlon titles, only to have them later...
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  • Official report, p. 61. Mather, Victor; Panja, Tariq (15 July 2022). "Jim Thorpe Is Restored as Sole Winner of 1912 Olympic Gold Medals". The New York...
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    International (UPI). The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) awarded the Jim Thorpe Trophy. American Football League Most Valuable Player Award Bert Bell...
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    officially began with Jim Thorpe. During the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, Thorpe won the gold medal in the Decathlon (among others). Thorpe competed professionally...
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    Indian and ran for the Carlisle Indian School where he was a teammate of Jim Thorpe. His silver medal in 1912 remained the best U.S. achievement in this event...
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    west of New York City, the nation's largest city. The county seat is Jim Thorpe, which was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk. The Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long...
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