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Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox
Indian. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell
Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to
Carlisle Indian 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, winning
both the decathlon and pentathlon. It was then that King Gustav V
of Sweden dubbed him ""the world's greatest athlete.""Between 1913
and 1919, Thorpe played professional baseball for the New York
Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Boston Braves. In 1915 he
began playing professional football with the Canton (Ohio)
Bulldogs. When the top teams were organized into the American
Professional Football Association in 1920, Thorpe was named the
first president of the league, which was renamed the National
Football League in 1922. Throughout his career he excelled in every
sport he played, earning King Gustav's accolade many times over.
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