Jim Thorpe may be the greatest athlete of all time. This statement may sound weird because not many people have heard of Jim Thorpe. I learned about Jim Thorpe when I was around ten. My grandfather told me about how he met the man, and how he was one of the greatest football players of all time. He has the credentials, but records aren't everything.
Through researching, I learned that Jim Thorpe overcame great adversity as a native american. "Thorpe played football for Carlisle Industrial Indian School"(
wikipedia), it was at this school where Jim began to shine. He gained popularity for being and Indian school defeating big Ivy League schools. He was an all-around athlete and this led him to the olympics. In the 1912 olympics Jim Thorpe set the overall record of the highest score in a decathlon and the pentathlon. The decathlon's record stood for 100 years, to be broken by Aston Eaton at the 2012 London Summer games. Globally Kings and Czars were awarding him. All of his medals were stripped of him because he wanted to play minor league baseball in 1909. He was the original Bo Jackson. He played many sports like football, baseball, and track and field events.
He played under the legendary coach Pop Warner, one of the most iconic names in football. He ended his baseball career with a .307, and to paraphrase
Student Pulse, The Associated Press comprised of 400 sportswriters united to name the greatest athlete of the century. This list includes: Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Red Grange, George Mikan, and Bobby Jones. He had more votes for the number one athlete than all of the other athletes combined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe#Amateur_career
http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/15/redskin-and-all-american-jim-thorpes-malleable-symbolic-significance?ab=no_breaks&utm_expid=22625156-1.sV9KDyk4TvGyRo_tLTD5HA.1&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.studentpulse.com%2Farticles%2F15%2F2%2Fredskin-and-all-american-jim-thorpes-malleable-symbolic-significance
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