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Thorpe's monument, featuring the quote from Gustav V ("You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world."), still stands near the town named for him, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. [17] The grave rests on mounds of soil from Thorpe's native Oklahoma and from the stadium in which he won his Olympic medals.
Thorpe turned professional in 1972. He won three times on the PGA Tour in the mid-1980s. He has surpassed this at senior level by winning over ten times, including one senior major championship (the 2002 Tradition) and making the top ten of the Champions Tour's career money list in 2004.
Jim Thorpe – All-American: Young Jim Thorpe: On Moonlight Bay: Wesley Winfield The Day the Earth Stood Still: Bobby Benson 1952 Talk About a Stranger: Robert 'Bud' Fontaine Jr. 1953 All I Desire: Ted Murdoch By the Light of the Silvery Moon: Wesley Winfield The Girl Next Door: Joe 1954 The Outlaw Stallion: Danny Saunders 1955 The Seven Little ...
Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict ...
A decision 110 years in the making.
Native filmmaker Chris Eyre to direct Jim Thorpe documentary. Additionally, the expanded partnership includes the development of a new documentary with the working title “Jim Thorpe," about the ...
Central Railroad of New Jersey Station in Jim Thorpe, now a visitors center. Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk (/ ˌ m ɔː k ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ k /), a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk, meaning Bear Place in Unami, the language of the native Lenape, possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original ...
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