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Full name: Jim Thorpe
Born: May 28, 1888
Died: March 28, 1953
- Height: 6'-1" Weight: 190 lbs.
- Position: Halfback
- He played for Carlisle Indian School, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, Oorang
Indians, Rock Island Independents, New York Giants, Canton Bulldogs and Chicago Cardinals.
- He was the most famous American athlete of the age. He was excellent at every sport he
tried.
- He won the decathlon and penthatlon events at the 1912 Olympics.
- He did play major-league baseball from 1913 to 1919.
- Football was his favorite sport. In 1912, Thorpe scored 25 touchdowns and 198 points in
leading his Carlisle Indian School team to a national collegiate championship.
- Jim Thorpe was selected by the nation's press in 1950 as the most outstanding athlete of
the 20th century.
- Jim Thorpe was also declared as "America's Greatest football player of the
half-century," in 1950.
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