Jim Thorpe
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On May 28, 1888 Hiram P. Thorpe’s child Watho-huck or “Bright Path” was born inside a small one room cabin. To the world he would be known as . Jim was married to Charlotte at birth. Charlotte was Jim’s first wife. Jim would eventually have five wives and 19 legally identified children. ....
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.... Richard Henry Pratt of the U.S. Army as a way to help Indians integrate into the American culture. They hired Glenn S. "Pop" Warner as a football coach. When Jim went there, in 1904, he was learning a trade as an electrician.
One day in the spring of 1907 Jim walks by the athletic fields and watches the track team practicing the high jump. Jim's only 5'9" and 144lbs. He asks if he can try. So wearing a pair of overalls he clears the jump. The boys run and tell Pop Warner that Jim just broke ....
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