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Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest Athlete

By Robert W. Wheeler, Robert W. Wheeler (Preface by), Florence Ridlon (Preface by)
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By Robert W. Wheeler, Robert W. Wheeler (Preface by), Florence Ridlon (Preface by)
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Born in 1888 in what would soon be Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the nation’s best college teams—Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, win...

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