Article describes the life and athletic career of Oklahoman Jim Thorpe, an Olympic gold medal winner of Sac and Fox descent, in a centennial tribute. Thorpe's accomplishments in track, baseball, and football, are chronicled here, as well as the reputation he gained with the public.
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Article describes the life and athletic career of Oklahoman Jim Thorpe, an Olympic gold medal winner of Sac and Fox descent, in a centennial tribute. Thorpe's accomplishments in track, baseball, and football, are chronicled here, as well as the reputation he gained with the public.
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Abstract: Another centennial being celebrated in 1987 is the birth date of Jim Thorpe, the Olympic gold medal winner and the man voted the "best male athlete of the first half century." Carl Sadler, also a native of Shawnee, offers a short photographic tribute to one of the Oklahoma's best known favorite sons.
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