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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Originally Posted by stealthn
"Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and basketball."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe |
How quickly they forget...
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