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- 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