Jim Thorpe was born in 1888 near Prague, Oklahoma.  While attending the
Carlisle Indian School, Thorpe's moves on the football field gained
attention and he was chosen for Walter Camp's All-American football teams
in 1911 and 1912.  Thorpe won gold medals in both the pentathlon and the
decathlon in the 1912 Olympics, a feat which has never been duplicated. 
His medal were later revoked because he had previously played
semi-professional baseball, but in 1983 Thorpe's victories were reinstated
into the Olympic record.  In 1920, Thorpe became the first president of
the American Professional Football Association, and in 1950 was voted by
Associated Press sportswriters as "the best athlete of the first half of
the century."  He died in 1953.