The World's Greatest Athlete
Author | : Gerald C. Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Motion picture plays |
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Author | : Gerald C. Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Motion picture plays |
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Author | : Gerald C. Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Sports |
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Author | : Robert W. Wheeler |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-11-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806174307 |
Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox Indian. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the nation’s best college teams-Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, winning both the decathlon and pentathlon. It was then that King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him "the world’s greatest athlete." Between 1913 and 1919, Thorpe played professional baseball for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Boston Braves. In 1915 he began playing professional football with the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs. When the top teams were organized into the American Professional Football Association in 1920, Thorpe was named the first president of the league, which was renamed the National Football League in 1922. Throughout his career he excelled in every sport he played, earning King Gustav’s accolade many times over.
Author | : Joyce Libal |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 142229059X |
Find out what it takes to be a professional athlete or sports official... The sports world offers many opportunities. Professionals work as: •Athletes, •Coaches, •Umpires and referees, and •Other sports officials. The world of professional sports is exciting—and demanding. You'll need physical coordination, strength, endurance...and a good character. As an athlete, coach, or sports official, you must demonstrate integrity, so that others will trust your leadership... Have the courage to stand up for what is right... Be self-disciplined enough to stick to your career until you succeed... Act on behalf of your community, demonstrating your citizenship. Find out more about this exciting career—read Professional Athlete & Sports Official.
Author | : Michael A. Schuman |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766030213 |
"Explores the life of world class athlete Jim Thorpe, including his childhood and American Indian background, his amateur and professional athletic career, and the legacy he left behind"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Robert W. Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-01-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780806194240 |
Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox Indian. In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, winning both the decathlon and pentathlon. It was then that King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him "the world's greatest athlete."
Author | : Mark Hebscher |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2019-02-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1459743369 |
Canada’s first Olympic gold medallist couldn’t walk until he was ten, spoke nine languages, became the greatest runner of his generation, and was mistaken for an American for seventy years because the Americans wanted to keep him.
Author | : Dan O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781935628088 |
Only one man, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon, is officially deemed the World's Greatest Athlete. As an orphan who has never met his biological parents, as a recovering alcoholic, as the subject of a timelessly infamous advertising campaign, as the athlete of maybe the most publicised and shocking failure in the history of sports, and as a man who persevered through it all to dominate his sport like few athletes ever have, it is no wonder Track & Field News calls Dan's life, the stuff movies are made of. Dan's meteoric rise to prominence saw him take the No.1 world ranking less than two years removed from his only college season, and he became an overnight celebrity when cast alongside Dave Johnson in Reebok's massive Dan & Dave ad campaign. The commercials debuted during the Super Bowl, but when O'Brien infamously failed to qualify for the Olympic team it was called the most shocking moment in U.S. Olympic history, and to this day ESPN ranks it as one of the all-time sports busts. Undeterred, O'Brien went on to capture his record-tying fifth national championship in addition to a third consecutive world championship the first decathlete in history to do so. Then at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, with what seemed like an entire country in his corner, O'Brien completed his tale of redemption by becoming the oldest decathlete to ever win an Olympic gold medal. Now, through the pages of this profoundly inspiring and fast-paced memoir, Dan will chronicle his extraordinary career. This book also offers a window into the world of the decathlon and an inside look at some of its most influential athletes. O'Brien offers an insiders view of some of the greatest Olympic decathletes -- of Bill Toomey the intellectual artist, Milt Campbell the most inspirational, and Bruce Jenner as the man most driven.
Author | : O'Brien Dan Botkin Brad |
Publisher | : Blue River Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-07-25 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781681572185 |
Published on the 30th Anniversary of Dan O'Brien's first attempt of Olympic Gold at the 1992 Olympic Games. Dan O'Brien would go on to win gold at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. For all the world's great athletes, only one man, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon, is officially deemed the World's Greatest Athlete. Since Jim Thorpe's gold medal effort in the first modern decathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Games eleven more Americans have held this near mythical title and not a single one, from Bob Mathias to Bruce Jenner, has done it with as much flair or with a more gripping tale than Dan O'Brien. As an orphan who has never met his biological parents, as the subject of a timelessly infamous "Dan & Dave" advertising campaign, as the athlete of perhaps the most publicized and shocking failure in the history of sports, and as a man who persevered through it all to dominate his sport like few athletes ever have, it's no wonder Track & Field News calls Dan's life "stuff movies are made of."
Author | : Jennifer Lee Fandel |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1496654218 |
Tells the life story of athlete Jim Thorpe, star of the 1912 Olympic Games and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Written in graphic-novel format.