In a 2000 ABC Sports poll, a majority of voters chose him as the best athlete of the 20th century, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society. Thorpe died in 1953. More: Why Jim Thorpe ...

Jim Thorpe went on to become the first Native American athlete to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States and is considered by many to be one of the greatest athletes of all time.

In 1912, Jim Thorpe walked the streets of those same American cities, past crowds of people straining to see him. He had just won gold medals for both the pentathlon and the decathlon at the Olympic ...

When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal ... sir, are the greatest athlete in the world." ("Thanks, King," Thorpe is rumored to have responded.) Exactly 100 years later, at ...

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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives announced plans to introduce a bill that would designate a day to commemorate a ...

Thorpe, winner of the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon and a two-time All-American running back ... you are the greatest athlete in the world." Thorpe reportedly replied, "Thanks, king." ...

In 1954, it took on its current title after the famous Olympian and Native American athlete ... Today, Jim Thorpe is one of the most charming towns in the Poconos, if not all of Pennsylvania.