The Jim Thorpe Backlash

The Jim Thorpe Backlash: The Olympic Medals Debacle And the ...

Just seven months after Thorpe's Olympic glory, a media scandal over his amateur standing cost him his gold medals and led to the demise of the Carlisle ...

The controversy that took Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals also began ...

The AAU was unconvinced. It withdrew Thorpe's amateur status, and the IOC followed suit later that year. Thorpe would no longer be allowed to ...

The 100-Year Dispute for Jim Thorpe's Olympic Golds

It is almost universally viewed today as one of the great sports injustices: Jim Thorpe, the world's greatest athlete at the time, ...

Jim Thorpe, North Carolina Baseball, and the 1912 Olympic Scandal ...

At the 1912 Summer Olympics, American Indian Jim Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon and became a sports legend.

Why Are Jim Thorpe's Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?

In 1912, Jim Thorpe became the greatest American Olympian of all time, but not if you ask the IOC.

Jim Thorpe is reinstated as the sole winner of two events in the 1912 ...

He was stripped of his gold medals in what was described as the first major international sports scandal. Sponsor Message. Biden awards Medal ...

Jim Thorpe ran track and played football. He tried to outrun racism.

As a talented, multisport athlete, Jim Thorpe, a Native American, faced prejudice and condescension because of his race.

Jim Thorpe's Olympic wins restored — 110 years later | UNC-Chapel ...

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The damaging myth of Pop Warner as Jim Thorpe's savior

Welch filed a petition against Warner in part out of disgust with his coach for bailing on Thorpe during the Olympics controversy, which he saw ...

Thorpe's scandal-tainted 1912 golds still resonate, amaze | AP News

It was discovered that Thorpe, hoping to get scouted for the major leagues, had played minor league baseball over two summers in North Carolina, ...

Penn Museum explores Jim Thorpe remains controversy

After years of attempts to convince the Borough on Jim Thorpe to permit the repatriation of Thorpe to his Sac and Fox homeland, his sons—former ...

The revoking and returning of Jim Thorpe's Olympics awards

... Jim Thorpe's Olympics awards : 70 years of Native-American sports protest? / Fabrice Delsahut. Delsahut, Fabrice. James Francis Thorpe became the first Native ...

Athletic prowess, racism are central themes in new Jim Thorpe book ...

Author David Maraniss brilliantly relates how Thorpe, the finest multi-sport athlete of the 20th century, faced lifelong abuse as a Native ...

Controversy over Remains of Native American Athlete Jim Thorpe ...

The play recounts the ongoing struggle of three sons to recover the remains of their father—the unmatched Olympian Jim Thorpe—from the Borough of Jim Thorpe, ...

IOC reinstates Jim Thorpe as sole winner of 1912 Olympic decathlon ...

Jim Thorpe, stripped of two gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated by the IOC on Thursday as the ...

Opinion | Jim Thorpe was wronged by bigotry. The IOC must correct ...

The Native American athlete is still listed a co-winner of events he handily won in at the 1912 Olympic Games, before his gold medals were ...

Jim Thorpe | Pentathlon and Decathlon

The only controversy concerning Thorpe's athletic career came in 1913 when the International Olympic Committee stripped Thorpe's gold medals because he had ...

'World's greatest athlete' Jim Thorpe was wronged by bigotry. The ...

In Jim Thorpes case it might have been racism, in other cases it was simply a chance for the upper class to get rid of their working class ...

New biography chronicles the triumphs and struggles of Native ...

In this undated file photo, Jim Thorpe, left, is greeted by a group of American Indians from a nearby reservation in St. Petersburg, Fla.

The revoking and returning of Jim Thorpe's Olympics awards

The first person in history to be disqualified for professionalism was an athlete of Native American origin. His name was James Francis ...