Could the old nickel-a-week campaign that helped bring Jim Thorpe’s body to Carbon County and rename the united East Mauch Chunk and Mauch Chunk after him be coming back?
Jim Thorpe Borough Councilman.
Jim Thorpe, byname of James Francis Thorpe, (born May 28, 1888, near Prague, Indian Territory [now in Oklahoma], U.S. died March 28, 1953, Lomita, California), one of the most accomplished all-around athletes in history who in 1950 was selected by American sportswriters and broadcasters as the greatest American athlete and the greatest gridiron football player of the first half of the 20th century. Predominantly of American Indian (Sauk and Fox) descent, Thorpe attended Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas, and Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Indian Industrial School. While playing football for Carlisle under coach Pop Warner, he was chosen as halfback on Walter
It took the International Olympic Committee 110 years to finally declare Jim Thorpe the sole winner of the 1912 Summer Olympics events in the decathlon and pentathlon.
Thorpe finished first in four of.
Family members want to return the Olympic athlete's remains to the Oklahoma reservation where he grew up. But the town wants to keep Jim Thorpe in Jim Thorpe.
Jim Thorpe s two gold medals from the 1912 Stockholm Olympics have been reinstated - nearly 110 years after being stripped for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time.