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Jim Thorpe a Pioneer of American Athletics
The article recalls Wa-thc-huck born May 28 1888 in Oklahoma later known as Jim Thorpe. A Sauk Fox father and Chippewa mother helped shape famed runner jumper and decathlete who won Olympic decathlon in 1912. later barred for professionalism and pursued pro baseball and football before his 1953 death.
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