Editing Jim Thorpe (section)

==Athletic achievements==
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<blockquote>
"You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world." — [[Gustav V|King Gustav V of Sweden]]
</blockquote>

'''National'''
* [[File:Presidential Medal of Freedom (ribbon).svg|80px]] [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] ([[List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients#Awarded by Joe Biden|2024]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Track & Field Article {{!}} AAU |url=https://aausports.org/track-and-field/news/article?id=3409 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=aausports.org |language=en}}</ref>
===Halls of Fame===
* [[Helms Athletic Foundation#Pro Football Hall of Fame|Helms Athletic Foundation Pro Football Hall of Fame]] – Inaugural Class of 1950<ref>{{Cite news |date=1950-08-03 |title=Helms Foundation Starts Football Hall of Fame |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-arizona-republic-helms-foundation-st/5380135/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |work=The Arizona Republic |pages=26}}</ref>
* [[Oklahoma Hall of Fame]] – Class of 1950<ref>{{Cite web |title=James (Jim) Francis Thorpe, Class of 1950 {{!}} Oklahoma Hall of Fame |url=https://www.oklahomahof.com/hof/inductees/thorpe-james-jim-francis-1950 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.oklahomahof.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[College Football Hall of Fame]] – Inaugural Class of 1951<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Thorpe (1951) - Hall of Fame |url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1264#:~:text=The%20honors%20piled%20up:%201950,to%20Pro%20Football%20Hall%20of |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=National Football Foundation |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] – Inaugural Class of 1963<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Thorpe {{!}} Pro Football Hall of Fame {{!}} Pro Football Hall of Fame |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/jim-thorpe/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=pfhof |language=en}}</ref>
** Statue of Jim Thorpe in the lobby of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=timtrudell |date=2015-08-09 |title=Pro Football Hall of Fame great way to kick off NFL season |url=https://thewalkingtourists.com/pro-football-hall-of-fame-great-way-to-kick-off-nfl-season/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=The Walking Tourists |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame]] – Inaugural Class of 1963<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pittsburgh |first=1629 Augusta Drive |last2=Pa 15237412-779-8664 |title=Inductees |url=https://www.pasportshof.org/inductees/?filter_1=1963&filter_4=&gv_search=&mode=all#gv-view-451-1 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=PA Sports Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [https://www.aiahof.com/jimthorpe.php American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame] – Inaugural Class of 1972<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Indian Hall of Fame |url=https://www.aiahof.com/inductees.php |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=www.aiahof.com}}</ref>
* [[National Track and Field Hall of Fame]] – Class of 1975<ref>{{Cite news |date=1975-06-13 |title=Track Hall To Induct Jim Thorpe |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/13/archives/track-hall-to-induct-jim-thorpe.html |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[United States Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame|U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame]] – Inaugural Class of 1983<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Maddie |date=2019-07-21 |title=Jim Thorpe {{!}} Pentathlon and Decathlon {{!}} U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame |url=https://usopm.org/jim-thorpe/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Jim Thorpe Association#Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame|Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame]] – Inaugural Class of 1986<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-25 |title=Inaugural Class of 1986 |url=https://oklahomasportshalloffame.wordpress.com/inaugural-class-of-1986/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Statue of Jim Thorpe]]
* [[American Football Kicking Hall of Fame]] – Inaugural Class of 2008<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fame |first=American Football Kicking Hall of |title=American Football Kicking Hall of Fame |url=https://americanfootballkickinghalloffame.com/jim-thorpe |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=American Football Kicking Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[National Native American Hall of Fame]] – Inaugural Class of 2018<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fame |first=National Native American Hall of |date=2021-01-27 |title=JIM THORPESAC AND FOX NATION - NNAHOF |url=https://nativehalloffame.org/jim-thorpe/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=National Native American Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [https://www.aausports.org/news/highlight-of-2023-an-aau-hall-of-fame-induction-for-jim-thorpe/ Middle Atlantic AAU Hall of Fame] – Class of 2023

===Track and Field===
* [[United States Olympic trials (track and field)|U.S. Olympic Trials]] [[Pentathlon]] Champion (May 18, 1912)
** 1st place – [[Long jump|Running broad jump]]
** 1st place – [[200 metres]]
** 1st place – [[Discus throw]]
** 2nd place – [[1500 metres]]
** 2nd place – [[Javelin throw]]
* 2× [https://www.olympic-museum.de/prizes/1912/challenge_prizes_1912.php Olympic Challenge Prize Winner] (1912)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/brightpathstrong/videos/926439641420257/|title=Bright Path Strong Video|website=Facebook|publisher=Bright Path Strong|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428011613/https://www.facebook.com/brightpathstrong/videos/926439641420257/|archive-date=2025-04-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** The Swedish King's Challenge Prize Trophy
** The Emperor of Russia's Challenge Prize Trophy
* 2× [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medalist ([[1912 Summer Olympics|1912]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=Jim Thorpe - Prague Chamber of Commerce |url=https://www.praguechamber.org/jim-thorpe/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |language=en-US}}</ref>
** [[Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's pentathlon|1912 Olympic Pentathlon gold medal]]
*** 1st place – [[Long jump]]
*** 1st place – [[200 metres]]
*** 1st place – [[Discus throw]]
*** 1st place – [[1500 metres]]
*** 3rd place – [[Javelin throw]]
*** Tied-4th place – [[High jump]]
*** 7th place – [[Long jump]]
** [[Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon|1912 Olympic Decathlon gold medal]]
*** 1st place – [[Shot put]]
*** 1st place – [[High jump]]
*** 1st place – [[110 metres hurdles]]
*** 1st place – [[1500 metres]]
*** 3rd place – [[Long jump]]
*** 3rd place – [[Discus throw]]
*** Tied-3rd place – [[100 metres]]
*** Tied-3rd place – [[Pole vault]]
*** 4th place – [[Javelin throw]]
*** 4th place – [[400 metres]]
* 4th place in the [[Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump|1912 Olympic Men's High Jump]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Memorial and Monument for Jim Thorpe |url=https://theclio.com/entry/12367 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=Clio |language=en}}</ref>
* 7th place in the [[Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump|1912 Olympic Men's Long Jump]]<ref name=":2" />
* [[Amateur Athletic Union]] All-Around Championships gold medal (September 2, 1912){{efn|First place in seven of the ten events contested, and came in second in the remaining three.}}<ref name="The Carlisle Arrow">[https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/default/files/docs-publications/CarlisleArrow_v09n02.pdf Carlisle Arrow, Page 10]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Thorpe Biography - BiographyDocuments.org |url=https://www.biographydocuments.org/sports-athletics/jim-thorpe.html |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.biographydocuments.org}}</ref>
** Record-breaking 7,476 points{{efn|The former record was 7,385, made by [[Martin Sheridan]] in 1909.}}
* The [[Thorpe Cup]], an annual international decathlon and heptathlon meeting between the [[United States]] and [[Germany]], is named in his honor (1993)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thorpe Cup :: GER vs. USA |url=http://tc.zehnkampfteam.de/index_en.php |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=tc.zehnkampfteam.de}}</ref>

===Football===
* 3× [[Ohio League]] champion ([[1916 Canton Bulldogs season|1916]], [[1917 Canton Bulldogs season|1917]], [[1919 Canton Bulldogs season|1919]])
* First-team [[All-Pro]] ([[1923 All-Pro Team|1923]])
* [[National Football League 1920s All-Decade Team|NFL 1920s All-Decade Team]]
* [[National Football League 50th Anniversary All-Time Team|NFL 50th Anniversary All-Time Team]]
* First [[Commissioner of the NFL]] (1920–1921)
; As a coach
* 3× Ohio League champion ([[1916 Canton Bulldogs season|1916]], [[1917 Canton Bulldogs season|1917]], [[1919 Canton Bulldogs season|1919]])

===College===
'''College Football'''
* [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS#Other selectors|National Champion (''BL'')]] (1911)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Libby National Champions |url=https://www.billlibby.com/libby-national-champions |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=Bill Libby |language=en}}</ref>
* [[List of Heisman Trophy winners#Retroactive selections|Heisman Trophy]] ([[National Football Foundation|NFF]]) (1911)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Retroactive Heisman Winners |url=http://www.footballfoundation.org/Portals/7/nff/file_file/2009_footballetter_issue_3.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126011919/http://www.footballfoundation.org/Portals/7/nff/file_file/2009_footballetter_issue_3.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-26|access-date=April 29, 2025 |website=Football Foundation}}</ref>
* Third-team All-American ([[1908 College Football All-America Team|1908]])
** [[Walter Camp|WC]] third-team All-American (1908)
** [[The Philadelphia Inquirer|''PI'']] All-American team (1908)
* 2× Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1911 College Football All-America Team|1911]], [[1912 College Football All-America Team|1912]])
** 2× [[Walter Camp|WC]] first-team All-American (1911, 1912)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Walter Camp All-Americans By Year |url=https://waltercamp.org/walter-camp-all-america-team-by-year/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=waltercamp.org}}</ref>
** [[Wilton S. Farnsworth|WSF]] second-team All-American (1911)
** [[Charles Chadwick (athlete)|CC]] first-team All-American (1911)
** [[Outing (magazine)|''HL'']] All-American team (1911)
** [[Baseball Magazine|''BM'']] All-American team (1991)
** [[The Christian Science Monitor|''CSM'']] All-American team (1911)
** [[The Post-Standard|''SPS'']] All-American team (1911)
** COMP{{efn|Louis A. Douglier of the ''Washington Times'', picked what he terms the composite All-Star football team, after studying the selections made by 23 newspaper writers.}} first-team All-American (1912)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Saskatoon Phoenix - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nrdfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3082,8863059&dq=brickley+thorpe+felton&hl=en |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=news.google.com}}</ref>
** [[The New York Sun|''NYS'']] first-team All-American (1912)
** [[The Philadelphia Inquirer|''PI'']] first-team All-American (1912)
** [[The Christian Science Monitor|''CSM'']] first-team All-American (1912)
** [[The Baltimore Sun|''BS'']] All-American team (1912)
** [[Robert W. Edgren|RE]]{{efn|sports editor for ''[[The Evening World]]''.}} first-team All-American (1912)
** WJM{{efn|Selected by sports writer William James MacBeth of the [[New York Journal-American|''New York American'']].}} first-team All-American (1912)
** ASH{{efn|Selected by Alfred S. Harvey of the [[List of newspapers in Wisconsin#Defunct|''Milwaukee Free Press'']].}} first-team All-American
** TC{{efn|Selected by Tommy Clark.}} first-team All-American (1912)
** [[Parke H. Davis|PHD]] first-team All-American (1912)
** [[Pop Warner|PW]] first-team All-American (1912)
** [[The Times (Trenton)|''TET'']] first-team All-American (1912)
** [[Hamilton Fish III|HF]] first-team All-American (1912)
** [[The Philadelphia Press|''PP'']] first-team All-American (1912)
** [[Record-Journal|''MDJ'']] first-team All-American (1912)
* [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] "unofficial" [[Interception#Gridiron football|interceptions]] leader (1912)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Game-Season-Career Statistical Leaders Pre-1937 |url=https://www.secsportsfan.com/support-files/pre-1937cfbleaders.pdf |access-date=April 29, 2025 |website=SEC Sports Fan}}</ref>
* [[List of NCAA major college football yearly scoring leaders#Pre-1937 unofficial data|NCAA "unofficial" scoring leader]] (1912)<ref name=":1" />
* [[List of NCAA major college football yearly rushing leaders#Pre-1937 unofficial data|NCAA "unofficial" touchdowns leader]] (1912)<ref>{{Cite web |title=College Football Hall of Famers Who Are Olympic Medalist |url=https://www.cfbhall.com/news-and-happenings/blog/college-football-hall-of-famers-who-are-olympic-medalist/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.cfbhall.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 3× [[List of NCAA major college football yearly rushing leaders#Pre-1937 unofficial data|NCAA "unofficial" rushing yards leader]] (1908, 1911, 1912)<ref name=":1" />
* 3× [[List of NCAA major college football yearly total offense leaders|NCAA "unofficial" total offense leader]] (1908, 1911, 1912)<ref name=":1" />
* [[Carlisle Indians football#All-time team|Carlisle Indians All-Time Team]]
* The [[Jim Thorpe Award]], named in his memory, has been awarded to the top [[defensive back]] in [[college football]] since 1986<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Thorpe Award Winners - NCAA College Football Awards - ESPN |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/awards/_/id/10 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=ESPN.com}}</ref>

'''Track and Field'''{{efn|The true number of track meets participated in and won is unknown. The following results can be found from a collection of newspaper clippings referenced here.<ref name="Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center">[https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/default/files/docs-ephemera/NARA_1327_b037_f1783.pdf Jim Thorpe Collection]</ref>}}
* [[Penn Relays]] (1908)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Penn Relays |url=https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:7055a582-0ac2-488c-b6e6-1c0e5b90dc34 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=acrobat.adobe.com}}</ref>
** Tied-1st place – [[High jump]]
* [[Carlisle Indian Industrial School|Carlisle]] vs [[Syracuse University|Syracuse]] Dual Meet (1908)
** 1st place – [[Hurdling|High hurdles]]
** 1st place – Low hurdles
** 1st place – [[Shot put]]
** 1st place – [[High jump]]
** 1st place – [[Long jump|Broad jump]]
** 2nd place – [[Hammer throw]]
* [[Pennsylvania]] Intercollegiate Championships in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg, PA]] (1908)
** 1st place – [[Hurdling|High hurdles]]
** 1st place – Low hurdles
** 1st place – [[High jump]]
** 1st place – [[Long jump|Broad jump]]
** 1st place – [[Hammer throw]]
* Middle Atlantic Athletic Association Championships in [[Philadelphia]] (1908)
** 1st place – [[High hurdles]]
** 1st place – Low hurdles
** 1st place – [[High jump]]
** 1st place – [[Long jump|Broad jump]]
** 1st place – [[Hammer throw]]
* Carlisle vs [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] Dual Meet (1909)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thorpe, James Francis ("Jim") {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/thorpe-james-francis-jim |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Thorpe |url=https://hebfdn.org/portfolio/jim-thorpe/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=H. E. Butt Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>
** 1st place – [[Hurdling|High hurdles]]
** 1st place – Low hurdles
** 1st place – [[High jump]]
** 1st place – [[Long jump]]
** 1st place – [[Shot put]]
** 1st place – [[Discus throw]]
** 3rd place – [[100-yard dash]]
* Middle Atlantic Indoor Championship Games at the [[Paterson Armory|Second Regiment Armory]] (1912)
** 1st place – 75-yard dash
** 1st place – [[55 metres hurdles#60 yards hurdles|60 yard high hurdles]]
** 1st place – [[High jump]]
** 1st place – [[Shot put]]
** 2nd place – [[Standing triple jump]]

'''Ballroom Dancing'''
* Inter-Collegiate [[Ballroom dance|Ballroom Dancing]] Champion (1912)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fame |first=Oklahoma Sports Hall of |title=Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame |url=https://oklahomasportshalloffame.org/jim-thorpe-museum |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Media===
* [[Associated Press]]'s Athlete of the Half-Century (1950)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-16 |title=Jim Thorpe reinstated as sole winner for 1912 Olympic golds |url=https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-native-americans-stockholm-sweden-5cbe83bde828487ce2f82e3066850d85 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Associated Press]]'s Greatest Football Player of the Half-Century (1950)<ref>{{Cite web |title=#GoingDeep: The Legend of Jim Thorpe {{!}} Baseball Hall of Fame |url=https://baseballhall.org/discover/going-deep/The-Legend-of-Jim-Thorpe |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=baseballhall.org}}</ref>
* Ranked #2 after [[Jesse Owens]] on the [[Associated Press]]'s Greatest Track and Field Athletes of the Half-Century (1950)<ref>{{Cite news |date=1950-01-27 |title=Jesse Owens Recall Thrills as Cinder-Ella Man of Era (Ralph Metcalfe) January 27, 1950 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-jesse-owens-recall-thril/157502038/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=40}}</ref>
* Shortly after his death in 1953, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time magazine]]'' named him The Greatest Athlete<ref>{{Cite web |last=TIME |date=1953-04-06 |title=Sport: The Greatest Athlete |url=https://time.com/archive/6620473/sport-the-greatest-athlete/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=TIME |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Sport (American magazine)|''Sport Magazine'']]'s Greatest Athlete of All Time (1977)<ref>{{Cite web |title=James Francis Thorpe Historical Marker |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=116724#:~:text=1977:%20Voted%20%22The%20Greatest%20American,the%20public%20about%20his%20accomplishments. |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.hmdb.org |language=en}}</ref>
* Ranked #3 on the [[Associated Press]]'s Top 100 Athletes of the 20th Century (1999)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 100 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century |url=https://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/greatest-all-time/athletes-ap-sports100.htm |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.topendsports.com}}</ref>
* Ranked #7 on [[SportsCentury#SportsCentury: Top 50 American Athletes of the 20th Century (Original series)|ESPN ''SportsCentury'': Top 50 North American Athletes of the 20th Century]] (1999)<ref>{{Cite web |title=ESPN.com: Top N. American athletes of the century |url=https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/athletes.html |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.espn.com}}</ref>
* Named America's Athlete of the Century by a resolutions of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] and [[United States senate|Senate]] (1999)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sen. Santorum |first=Rick [R-PA |date=1999-05-03 |title=All Info - S.Res.91 - 106th Congress (1999-2000): A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Jim Thorpe should be recognized as the "Athlete of the Century". |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/senate-resolution/91/all-info |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.congress.gov}}</ref>
* [[Wide World of Sports (American TV program)|''ABC's Wide World of Sports'']] Athlete of the Century (2000)<ref>{{Cite web |title=JIM THORPE "WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE" Ultrafamous Native American Indian Sac & Fox Sports Legend |url=https://www.californiaindianeducation.org/sports_heros/jim_thorpe/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.californiaindianeducation.org}}</ref>
* In 2008, ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' retroactively named Thorpe the [[Heisman Trophy]] winner for the 1911 and 1912 seasons<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-12-12 |title=Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934 |url=https://www.si.com/college/2008/12/12/early-heisman |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=SI |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Ranked #2 on [[Bleacher Report]]'s Top 10 Greatest Athletes of All Time (2018)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Farrand |first=Greg |title=The Top Ten Athletes Of All Time |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/53310-the-top-ten-athletes-of-all-time |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=bleacherreport.com |language=en}}</ref>
* Ranked #5 on [[ESPN]]'s Top 150 College Football Players of All Time (2020)<ref name=":3" />
* In 2020, [[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)|''The Gazette'']] declared that he is still the Greatest of All Time<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-04 |title=Jim Thorpe is still the greatest of all-time {{!}} From the Sidelines |url=https://gazette.com/woodmenedition/jim-thorpe-is-still-the-greatest-of-all-time-from-the-sidelines/article_649635be-d2a7-11ea-89b9-ab12ae73ef6c.amp.html |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Colorado Springs Gazette |language=en}}</ref>
* Ranked #7 on [[GiveMeSport]]'s list of Top 50 Greatest Athletes of All Time (2024)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tong |first=Kobe |date=2022-02-01 |title=The top 50 greatest athletes of all time have been named - Ronaldo and Messi miss out on top 10 |url=https://www.givemesport.com/greatest-athletes-of-all-time/ |access-date=2025-05-02 |website=GiveMeSport |language=en}}</ref>