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Jim Thorpe was considered America's best male athlete during the 1920's and is considered the best all around athlete ever!
 * Jim Thorpe**

As a young man, Thorpe was recruited to go to a vocatinal indian school called carlisle and his athletic potential was seen right away when he got their and soon transferred to north Carolina to better his talent.

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Although Jim thorpe wasn't the best baseball player, he still brought crowds in to watch him. As a young man at North Carolina, he played for the baseball team there as a pitcher and first-baseman what he said $15 per week. This soon would come back to haunt him as he was being looked at foir the olympics.

During the summer of 1912, before Thorpe's last year at Carlisle, he was chosen to represent the United States at the Stockholm Olympics in the decathlon (ten track events) and the pentathlon (five track events). He was an easy victor in the pentathlon, winning four of the five events (broad jump, 200 meter dash, discus, and 1,500 meter race), losing only the javelin. In the decathlon Thorpe set an Olympic mark of 8,413 points that would stand for two decades. Later in his career, the people at the olympics got wind of the money that Thorpe was getting while he was playing baseball in North Carolina and was considered a professional, and therefore had to return his olympic medals.

As a football star at Carlisle, Thorpe kicked 4 field goals against the undefeated Harvard University, including 2 over 40 yards.

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