Jim Thorpe
Awards And Accomplishments
| 1908 | Tied for first place in high jump at Penn Relays, taking home gold medal after flip of a coin |
| 1908 | Named third-team All-American by Walter Camp after first season as halfback with Carlisle Indians, who finished 10-2-1 |
| 1909 | Wins six gold medals and one bronze in Lafayette-Carlisle track meet |
| 1911 | Selected first-team All-American by Camp after Carlisle Indians finish season 11-1, losing the one game by only one point |
| 1912 | Won gold medals in pentathlon and decathlon at fifth Olympiad in Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1912 | Won Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) All-Around Championship decathlon with 7,476 points, breaking old record of 7,385 points, in spite of being weakened by ptomaine poisoning and hampered by bad weather |
| 1912 | Named first-team All-American for second consecutive year after Carlisle Indians finish season 12-1-1, leading the nation in scoring, with 504 points |
| 1920 | Named first president of American Professional Football Association (APFA), which two years later was renamed National Football League (NFL) |
| 1950 | Selected by Associated Press polls as Greatest Football Player of the Half-Century and Greatest Male Athlete of the Half-Century |
| 1951 | Named to National College Football Hall of Fame |
| 1951 | Monument to Thorpe is erected in Carlisle, Pennsylvania |
| 1953 | Towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, combine and are renamed Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania |
| 1955 | NFL names its annual most valuable player award the Jim Thorpe Trophy |
| 1958 | Elected to National Indian Hall of Fame in Anadarko, Oklahoma |
| 1961 | Elected to Pennsylvania Hall of Fame |
| 1963 | Inducted as charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio; life-size statue of Thorpe adorns lobby |
| 1966 | Portrait of Thorpe painted by Charles Banks Wilson unveiled in Oklahoma State Capitol; hangs alongside portraits of U.S. Senator Robert S. Kerr, Sequoyah, and Will Rogers |
| 1973 | House in which Thorpe's family lived from 1917 to 1923, in Yale, Oklahoma, opened as historic site by Oklahoma Historical Society |
| 1975 | Enshrined in National Track and Field Hall of Fame |
| 1975 | Portion of Oklahoma Highway 51 renamed Jim Thorpe Memorial Highway |
| 1977 | Named Greatest American Football Player in History in national poll conducted by Sport Magazine |
| 1984 | U.S. Government issues Jim Thorpe postage stamp |
| 1996 | Honored by Atlantic Committee for the Olympic Games by routing the Olympic torch relay through birthplace of Prague, Oklahoma |
| 1996-2001 | Named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century |
| 1999 | Named America's Athlete of the Century by a resolutions of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate |
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