In 1912 this Native American won the decathlon & pentathlon
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Native American Olympians Celebrated at New Smithsonian ...  May 9, 2012 ... In 1912, Thorpe swept both the pentathlon and decathlon at the Olympic ... who won the silver medal and set an American record for the 10,000...
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Jim Thorpe begins Olympic triathlon - Jul 07, 1912 - HISTORY.com  At the time, Thorpe, a Native American who attended Pennsylvania's Carlisle ... in the decathlon, which he won nearly as easily as he had won the pentathlon,...
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Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia  James Francis "Jim" Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. ... sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football (collegiate and...
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Why Are Jim Thorpe's Olympic Records Still Not Recognized? | History  100 years ago, Jim Thorpe became the greatest American Olympian of all time, ... He was a Native American and of course white American does not want to give .... reinstated as the winner of the 1912 Olympic Pentathlon and Decathlon event.
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Jim Thorpe, a native American, won gold medals in the 1912 ...  Jim Thorpe, a native American, won gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games for the pentathlon and the decathlon. Deemed a professional for having played...
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Free Flashcards about NATIVE AMERICANS - StudyStack  ONE-WORD NAME OF A PORTABLE DWELLING OF NATIVE AMERICANS, ESPECIALLY ON THE GREAT PLAINS, TEEPEE. IN 1934 THIS PRESIDENT WAS...
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Team USA's Ashton Eaton wins second Olympic decathlon in Rio ...  Aug 19, 2016 ... Ashton Eaton won a second straight gold medal in the decathlon at the Rio ... High School .... after completing the ninth of 10 decathlon events, the javelin. ... He had jumped over a bar that was 6 feet, 5.9 inches off the ground and run the ... Instead, at the end of an athletic workday that was into its 13th hour,...
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Bob Mathias - Wikipedia  Robert Bruce "Bob" Mathias (November 17, 1930  September 2, 2006) was an American decathlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the event, a United States Marine Corps officer, actor and United States Congressman representing the state of California. ... While at Tulare Union, Mathias took up the decathlon in early 1948, at the...
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Decathlon - Wikipedia  The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. ... The current decathlon world record holder is American Ashton Eaton, who ... Traditionally, all decathletes who finish the event, rather than just the winner or ... of decathlon in which the athletes have to start the last of ten events (1500 m)...
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Future Positive  2005  January  Jan 31, 2005 ... According to one account Dekanawidah was an Onondaga, adopted among the Mohawks. .... In this council the chief matron of the family, a noble dame whose ... When the League was established, Hiawatha had been adopted by the .... Longfellow; and thus, by an extraordinary fortune, a grave Iroquois...
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Jim Thorpe  All-American - Wikipedia  Jim Thorpe  All-American is a 1951 biographical film produced by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz, honoring Jim Thorpe, the great Native American athlete who won medals at ... The film starred Burt Lancaster as Thorpe and featured some archival footage of both the 1912 and 1932 Summer Olympics, as well...
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ESPN.com: August Classic Moments  1992: After Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins Olympic gold in the heptathlon in Barcelona ... Then Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, tells her, "You have proved to the world that you are the greatest athlete who ever lived, male or female. ... She is the first American woman to win an Olympic medal of any kind in...
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Athletics at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Pentathlon ...  He was considered the American favorite in the Olympic pentathlon, but it was difficult ... Only in the javelin throw was he beaten by any athlete, as both Sweden's ... But as in the decathlon, Jim Thorpe only kept his pentathlon gold medal until early ... Olympic Trials on 18 May 1912, held in New York, [Jim Thorpe] won easily,...
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Connolly takes a leap into the history books - Olympic News  The track-and-field programme in Athens was dominated by athletes from the ... 1896, American James Connolly earned the distinction of becoming the very first ... The triple jump  or hop, skip and jump as it was then known  was the first ... of his nearest opponent and become the first Olympic champion since AD385.
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the history of the united states olympic trials - USA Track & Field  The U.S. Olympic Trials is the best national track meet in the world, and there is no ... and decathlon which took place in Philadelphia on July 3-5, two days prior to the ... finishers at the NCAA/AAU made it into the try-outs, and this was to be the ...... He competed in the 1948 Boston marathon, but placed more than an hour...
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Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia  James Francis "Jim" Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won .... Later that year he became orphaned after Hiram Thorpe died from gangrene...
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Bob Mathias, 75, Decathlete and Politician, Dies - The New York ...  Sep 3, 2006 ... As Mathias recalled for Olympic Review in 1975, he said: That's great, ... Bob Mathias won the gold in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, ... 17, 1930, in Tulare, a farming town in California's Central Valley, and grew up there. ... 75, a Decathlon Champion And a Former U.S. Congressman, Dies.
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decathlon | athletics | Britannica.com  It was introduced as a three-day event at the Olympic Games in 1912.... ... Bob Mathias throwing the discus during the decathlon competition at the .... game played between two teams of five players each on a rectangular court, usually indoors.
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Timeline Olympics - Timelines of History  Connolly's event, the triple jump, which was then called the hop, step, and jump, was ... He went on to become a successful author of 25 novels. ... 1912 James Francis Thorpe (b.1888), American athlete, won an Olympic gold medal. .... 1948 Jul 29, Britain's King George VI opened the first Olympics since 1936 in London.
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Progressive Party (United States, 1912) - Wikipedia
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the history of the united states olympic trials ... - USA Track & Field  The History of the United State Olympic Trials  Track & Field is an official ..... The three decathlon Olympic Trials for that year ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. ... It was not until 1952 that the U.S. team was able to fly to Europe for the ... The post-war Olympic Trials of 1948 were less elaborate, in that the final Trials,...