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Author : Gene Schoor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (284 download)
Download or read book The Jim Thorpe Story written by Gene Schoor and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gene Schoor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671295943
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe Story written by Gene Schoor and published by . This book was released on 1985-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Wheeler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187328
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe written by Robert W. Wheeler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-02-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1888 in what would soon be Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian Industrial 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 organization, 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.
Author : Jennifer Fandel
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781429601528
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe written by Jennifer Fandel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic novel biography of Jim Thorpe, the American athlete who won both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the 1912 Olympics as well as excelling in other sports.
Author : Jennifer Lee Fandel
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496654218
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe written by Jennifer Lee Fandel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the life story of athlete Jim Thorpe, star of the 1912 Olympic Games and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Written in graphic-novel format.
Author : Bill Crawford
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470322713
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book All American written by Bill Crawford and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic titans like Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner marched across the planet, and he is the perfect guide to their enormous triumphs and tragedies. This is epic American history at its page-turning finest." -Bill Minutaglio, author of City on Fire and First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty He was the greatest football running back of his era, leading his Carlisle Indian Industrial School team to victory over all the great college powerhouses. King Gustav of Sweden called him "the greatest athlete in the world" after he won gold medals for the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games. Yet Jim Thorpe was also at the center of the greatest sports scandal of the twentieth century-a scandal that took away his Olympic medals and banned him forever from intercollegiate sports. Now, in this revealing new biography, Bill Crawford captures Jim Thorpe's remarkable rise and fall. From his youth on Oklahoma's Sac and Fox Indian reservation to his astounding feats on the gridiron, from his Olympic triumphs to his complex relationship with coach "Pop" Warner, who mentored, exploited, and ultimately betrayed him, All American brings you up close and personal with the greatest athlete of the twentieth century.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440651671
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe, Original All-American written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League Baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track & field. But his life wasn’t an easy one. Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887, he encountered much family tragedy, and was sent as a young boy to various Indian boarding schools—strict, cold institutions that didn’t allow their students to hold on to their Native American languages and traditions. Jim ran away from school many times, until he found his calling at Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian School. There, the now-legendary coach Pop Warner recognized Jim’s athletic excellence and welcomed him onto the football and track teams. Focusing on Jim Thorpe’s years at Carlisle, this book brings his early athletic career—and especially his college football days—to life, while also dispelling some myths about him and movingly depicting the Native American experience at the turn of the twentieth century. This is a book for history buffs as well as sports fans—an illuminating and lively read about a truly great American.
Author : Jennifer Marino Walters
Publisher : Red Chair Press
ISBN 13 : 1643712764
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe written by Jennifer Marino Walters and published by Red Chair Press. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Thorpe, an Oklahoma-born Native American, played pro baseball in New York, Cincinnati, and Boston, but he was an even better football player. In the 1912 Olympic Games, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon events, showcasing his exceptional athletic talents.
Author : David Maraniss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147674842X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Path Lit by Lightning written by David Maraniss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete that “goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe’s life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty” (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most famously, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw’s New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind. But despite his awesome talent, Thorpe’s life was a struggle against the odds. At Carlisle, he faced the racist assimilationist philosophy “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball, and his supposed allies turned away from him when their own reputations were at risk. His later life was troubled by alcohol, broken marriages, and financial distress. He roamed from state to state and took bit parts in Hollywood, but even the film of his own life failed to improve his fortunes. But for all his travails, Thorpe survived, determined to shape his own destiny, his perseverance becoming another mark of his mythic stature. Path Lit by Lightning “[reveals] Thorpe as a man in full, whose life was characterized by both soaring triumph and grievous loss” (The Wall Street Journal).
Author : Michael A. Schuman
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780766030213
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe written by Michael A. Schuman and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the life of world class athlete Jim Thorpe, including his childhood and American Indian background, his amateur and professional athletic career, and the legacy he left behind"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kate Buford
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375413243
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Native American Son written by Kate Buford and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles defining moments in the career of the preeminent American athlete, from his contributions to college football and gold-medal wins at the 1912 Olympics to his role in shaping professional football and baseball, in a portrait that also discusses his private struggles and political views.
Author : Robert W. Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806194240
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe written by Robert W. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox Indian. 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."
Author : Updyke, Rosemary K.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455606740
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered written by Updyke, Rosemary K. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.
Author : Gregory B. Richards
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516032078
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe written by Gregory B. Richards and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1984 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest all-around athletes in history.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781544429151
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (291 download)
Download or read book The Story of All-star Athlete Jim Thorpe written by Joseph Bruchac and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Crawford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book All American written by Bill Crawford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Carrie Golus
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 1467703974
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Jim Thorpe, 2nd Edition written by Carrie Golus and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know all there is to know about Jim Thorpe? Well, did you know that:* His Sauk and Fox name was Wa-Tho-Huk, which means Bright Path?* He broke his high school’s high jump record on his very first jump?* On the football field, he could run fast enough to catch his own punt? Jim Thorpe has been called the greatest athlete of the twentieth century. He excelled in football, baseball, and track and field. He won two Olympic gold medals in 1912. But his career was marred by controversy. And as a Native American, he faced much prejudice. Read all about his struggles and his triumphs.
