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
  • AP Most Outstanding Athlete of the First Half of the 20th Century – 1950
  • “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 press selected Jim Thorpe as the most outstanding athlete of the first half of the 20th Century
  • From 1996-2001, he was continuously awarded ABC’s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century award