Achievements

  • College Football Hall of Fame – 1951
  • Charter Enshrinee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame – 1963
  • All-America – 1911, 1912
  • Olympic Decathlon and Pentathlon Champion – 1912
  • “America’s Greatest Football Player of the half-century” – 1950
  • ABC’s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century – 2001
  • Track and Field Hall of Fame
  • In 1950, the nation’s Associated Press poll selected Jim Thorpe as the Most Outstanding Athlete of the first half of the 20th Century
  • Thorpe was the only player to ever hit 3 home runs into 3 different states during the same baseball game.
  • Thorpe also had the ability to kick a football over 100 yards. He could stand at one goal post and kick the ball to the other goal post!
  • From 1996-2001, he was continuously awarded ABC’s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century award