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- NAME: Jacobus Franciscus Thorpe
- OCCUPATION: Baseball Player, Basketball Player, Boxer, Football Player, Hockey Player
- BIRTH DATE: May 28, 1888
- DEATH DATE: March 28, 1953
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Prague, Oklahoma
- PLACE OF DEATH: Lomita, California
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Jim Thorpe was one of the most versatile American athletes of all time. He was predominantly American Indian in heritage, which played into his renowned.
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(born May 28, 1888, near Prague, Indian Territory—died March 28, 1953, Lomita, Calif., U.S.) U.S. athlete. Of predominantly American Indian (Sauk and Fox) descent, he trained as a football halfback under Pop Warner while attending the Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pa. (1908–12), where he also excelled at baseball, basketball, boxing, lacrosse, swimming, and hockey. In 1912 he won the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by wide margins, but he was deprived of his medals in 1913 after it was discovered he had played semiprofessional baseball. He later played professional baseball and football, and in 1920–21 he served as first president of what would become the National Football League. His Olympic medals were restored posthumously in 1983.Copyright © 1994-2011 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. For more information visit Britannica.com
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