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Jim Thorpe
coach and player
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Oorang Indians Football Practice
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FULL NAME: Jim Thorpe
BORN: May 28, 1887 Bellemont, Oklahoma
DIED: March 28, 1953
CAREER SUMMARY
Height: 6'-1" Weight: 190 lbs.
Position: Halfback
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He played for Carlisle Indian School (1907-1908
and 1911-1912), Canton
Bulldogs (1915-1920), Cleveland Indians (1921), Oorang Indians (1922-23),
Rock Island Independents (1924-5), New York Giants (1925), Canton Bulldogs
(1927), Chicago Cardinals (1928)
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He was the most famous American athlete of the age.
He was excellent at every sport he tried
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He won the Decathlon and Pentathlon events at 1912
Olympics
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He did play major-league baseball from 1913 to 1919
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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
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Thorpe was selected by the nation's press in 1950
as the most outstanding athlete of the twentieth century
 The Airedale was at the left bottom of Oorang
stationery.
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