Jim Thorpe Standing in His Carlisle Indian School Football Uniform
1909
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Jim Thorpe’s days as an athlete started at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, playing football and running track. In 1909, he was photographed in his Carlisle football uniform. At the 1912 Olympics, in Stockholm, Sweden, Thorpe won both the decathlon and the pentathlon. King Gustav V of Sweden called him, “the greatest athlete in the world.”
This primary source comes from the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
National Archives Identifier:
519348Full Citation: Photograph 75-X-2; Jim Thorpe Standing in His Carlisle Indian School Football Uniform; 1909; Photographs of Jim Thorpe, 1950 - 1950; Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/jim-thorpe-uniform, November 9, 2024]