Jim Thorpe -- All-American
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
23 September 1904, Glencoe, Illinois, USA
10 December 1918, Banner County, Nebraska, USA
28 November 1901, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
30 June 1905, Fresno, California, USA
1 January 1891, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1889, often given in error)
25 November 1916, Evanston, Illinois, USA
October 16, 1913 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
April 30, 1930 in Beggs, Oklahoma, USA
13 January 1938, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 June 1921, Hollywood, California, USA
1 December 1922, Corona, New York, USA
5 June 1909, Booneville, Arkansas, USA
29 September 1893, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
21 October 1914, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
10 August 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 February 1918, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 May 1909, Georgia, USA
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
30 August 1905, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
17 November 1913, Spring Valley, Illinois, USA
March 29, 1907 in San Diego, California, USA
13 November 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 February 1896, Newark, New Jersey, USA
24 October 1915, Waurika, Oklahoma, USA
16 September 1921, Nebraska, USA
29 November 1907, Eatonton, Georgia, USA
