Athletes compete Thursday, May 2, 2024, at the Olympian Invite track & field meet at Jim Thorpe High School. Northwestern Lehigh’s Brant Burnard competes in boys triple jumpThursday, May 2 ...

More than 70 years after his death, Jim Thorpe is still remembered as one of the greatest sports figures of the 20th century.

On Nov. 9, 1951, Jim Thorpe, who had been voted “Greatest ... The next day, news photographers converged to snap pictures of him in his hospital bed, his lower jaw bandaged.

Jim Thorpe's epic performance in the 15 events ... “If you look at old pictures of him he looks almost modern. He’s cut. He doesn’t look soft like the other guys did back then.

Jim Thorpe’s tribal name ... Thorpe flourished on the field and languished off it. Pictures of Thorpe attest to his efficiently proportioned body. Medical examiners, measuring every part ...

Biographical pictures are invariably fictionalized accounts and should be regarded on those terms, but along with the usual conflations and inaccuracies of detail, “Jim Thorpe — All American ...

On this day in 1888 was the birth of Jim Thorpe, an Olympian and western actor who appeared in the movie “Outlaw Trail,” ...