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Jim Thorpe

American athlete (1887–1953)

This article is about the American athlete. For other uses, see Jim Thorpe (disambiguation)."Bright Path" redirects here. For the 1940 Soviet film, see Tanya (1940 film). For the Kazakhstani economic stimulus plan, see Nurly Zhol.

Jim Thorpe

Thorpe in 1913

Born

James Francis Thorpe


May 22 or 28, 1887

Near Prague, Oklahoma, U.S.[a]

DiedMarch 28, 1953(1953-03-28) (aged 65)

Lomita, California, U.S.

NationalitySac and Fox Nation, American

American football player

American football career

Thorpe with the Canton Bulldogs, c. 1915 – c. 1920

Position:Tailback
Height:6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:202 lb (92 kg)
High school:Carlisle Indian Industrial (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
College:Carlisle (1907–1908, 1911–1912)
  • Oorang Indians (1922–1923)
    General manager
  • Tampa Cardinals (1926)
    Owner & general manager
As a player
As a coach
Career:NFL: 14–25–2 (.366)
Ohio League: 32–3–2 (.892)
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Jim Thorpe

Personal
Son of Hiram Thorpe and Charlotte Vieux...Had two siblings, Jack and Charlie...Was given the name “Wa-Tho-Huk,” meaning “Bright Path”...Predominantly of Sauk and Fox American Indian descent...Participated in ballroom dancing, baseball, football, hockey, lacrosse and track and fieldat the Haskell Institute in Kansas...Played professional Baseball for four teams over six years...Served as the first president of the American Professional Football Association (later the National Football League) while participating as a player...Three-time APFA champion...Appeared in more than 60 films as an actor...Named the Greatest Athlete of the First Half of the Century by the Associated Press...Father to eight children: Gale, Charlotte, Frances, James Francis Jr., Phillip, William, Richard and John.
Olympic Experience
  • 1-time Olympian; 2-time Olympic medalist (2 gold)
    • Olympic Games Stockholm 1912, (High Jump - Men, Long Jump - Men), gold (Decathlon - Men, Pentathlon - Men)
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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

  • The art of the biographer requires a jeweler’s eye, and a birder’s ear; the tenacity of a cold-case detective, and the curiosity of the great explorers. Also, compassion for the subjects upon whom he sets his indefatigable sights. Athletes, coaches, presidents, fathers, David Maraniss does them all justice. None of his subjects deserves that more than Jim Thorpe, the great Olympic champion, who was anointed America’s greatest athlete by a country that denied him, and his indigenous people, citizenship. In “Path Lit by Lightning” Maraniss rescues him from myth and prejudice, restoring something far more consequential than the Olympic medals stolen from him by small men — his humanity. This is another masterpiece from the master.

    Jane Leavy, author of The Big Fella and Koufax

  • Path Lit By Lightning is a flat-out masterpiece. The story of Jim Thorpe, one of America’s greatest and most misunderstood heroes, is told in riveting detail by David Maraniss, one of our greatest biographers. The result is a portrait as

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