Receiving payment to participate in an event disqualified an athlete from that event, as in the case of Jim Thorpe.

" He did make the football team, and was a varsity starter as running back and linebacker in 1912, tackling the legendary Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indians that year.

Early football stars such as Jim Thorpe, Paddy Driscoll, and Al Bloodgood were skilled drop-kickers ; Driscoll in 1925 and Bloodgood in 1926 hold a tied NFL record of four drop kicked field goals in a single game.

* 1888 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete ( d. 1953 )

Jim Thorpe was called the " greatest athlete in the world " by king Gustaf V of Sweden

Jim Thorpe, a Sauk and Fox Native American, was an all-round athlete playing football and baseball in the early 20th century.

My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe.

Numerous members, including Larry Csonka, Ray Flaherty, Joe Guyon, Pete Henry, Arnie Herber, Cal Hubbard, Don Maynard, Hugh McElhenny, and Jim Thorpe were at one time associated with the New York Giants, but they were inducted largely based on their careers with other teams.

She also performed in the production of Warrior, a musical about the American-Indian athlete Jim Thorpe, where CurtainUp. com described her as " outstanding.

Names such as Christy Mathewson, Iron Man Joe McGinnity, Bill Terry, Jim Thorpe, Mel Ott, Casey Stengel, and Red Ames are just a sample of the many players who honed their skills under McGraw.

* Jim Thorpe, outfielder

* Jim Thorpe

* May 28 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete ( d. 1953 )

This began when King Gustav V of Sweden told Jim Thorpe, " You, sir, are the world's greatest athlete " after Thorpe won the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.

James Francis " Jim " Thorpe ( Sac and Fox ( Sauk ): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as " Bright Path "; May 28, 1888March 28, 1953 ) was an American athlete of mixed ancestry ( Native American and Caucasian ).

Later that year, Hiram Thorpe died from gangrene poisoning after being wounded in a hunting accident, and Jim again dropped out of school.

Jim Thorpe in Carlisle Indian Industrial School uniform, c. 1909.

My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe.

Sheridan, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, was present to watch his record broken, approached Thorpe after the event and shook his hand saying, " Jim, my boy, you're a great man.

" Jim Thorpe and His World-Famous Indians " barnstormed for at least two years ( 1927 – 28 ) in parts of New York and Pennsylvania as well as Marion, Ohio.

Jim Thorpe

" Additionally, the school and journalists often categorized sporting competitions as conflicts of Indians against whites ; newspaper headings such as " Indians Scalp Army 27 – 6 " or " Jim Thorpe on Rampage " made stereotypical journalistic play of the Indian background of Carlisle's football team.

In 1982, Wheeler and Ridlon established the Jim Thorpe Foundation and gained support from the U. S. Congress.

`` It's ' See Joe, see Jim ' '', he says.

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

The series also featured a number of contemporary Irish actors and comedians, including Dervla Kirwan, Graham Norton, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick McDonnell, Don Wycherley, Joe Rooney, Jason Byrne, Jim Norton, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Ed Byrne, Brendan Grace, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gerard McSorley and Kevin McKidd.

In September, Joe Niekro was traded to the Yankees for two minor league pitchers and lefty Jim Deshaies.

In the 1940s through the 1960s, players such as Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Jim Hall laid the foundation of what is now known as " jazz guitar " playing.

If Joe answers Jim, saying " That may be true for you, but it is not true for me ," he has given an answer which is fallacious as well as being somewhat meaningless in the context of Jim's original statement.

McIntyre lost a fumble while being leveled by rookie Joe Carter, and Jim Jensen recovered the ball for Miami at the 49ers 12-yard line.

Belichick also felt that Jim Kelly was not as good at reading defenses as some other elite QBs, like Joe Montana, were, and that Kelly tended to " freeze " what he was seeing from a series and then use that information on the next one, which meant the Giants could be a step ahead of him all game if they alternated their cover plans from drive to drive.

Jim Lampley hosted all the events with the help of analysts Mike Ditka and Joe Gibbs and sideline reporters O. J.

Former CBS play-by-play and ESPN golf broadcaster Jim Kelly was the play-by-play announcer for many of those games in the 1980s, and Joe Namath was a commentator.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News ' This Week with Christiane Amanpour, and on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, is co-anchor.

Peter Marsden has attracted new investors to the club, with a new board of directors ; Phillip Carruthers, Anthony Christofis, Joe Cirino, John Glasson, Robert Heys, Robert Houseman, Jim Kenyon, David Lloyd, Demetrakis Nicou, John Norris, Alan Pickup, Oliver Sanker and Peter Shaw.

Battling Jim fought former coloured champ Joe Jeanette four times between 19 July 1912 and 21 January 1912 and lost all four fights.

Joe is killed in the fighting ; whereupon Jim sacrifices himself to hold off their pursuers long enough for Hugh, Bill, Alan, and their wives to retreat to a lifeboat left by the Ship's builders, wherein they leave the Ship and land on the inhabitable moon of a gas giant, which they explore and colonize.

During the battle, the mixed-blood Kaw interpreter, Joe Jim, galloped 60 miles to Topeka to request assistance from the Governor.

Riding along with Joe Jim was eight-year old Curtis or “ Indian Charley ” as he was called.

On October 9, 1970, McLain was traded by the Detroit Tigers with Elliott Maddox, Norm McRae and Don Wert to the Washington Senators for Joe Coleman, Eddie Brinkman, Jim Hannan and Aurelio Rodríguez.

The names of the known dead were all listed with hometowns in the New York Times, and included these names from Berrien County: Lester Hancock, Arthur Harper, William P. Hayes, Benjamin McCranie, James M. McMillan, Shelly Lloyd Webb, Joe Wheeler, Jim M. Boyett, Lafayette Gaskins, Bennie E. Griner, Robert J. Hancock, George H. Hutto, Thomas J. Simmons, Max Easters, G. Bruce Faircloth, Thomas, H. Holland, Ralph Knight, William McMillan, John Franklin Moore, Wiliam Zeigler, Thomas W. Sirmons, Charley Railey, and Tillman W. Robinson.

A bit earlier, on the West-coast, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine and Andy Warhol from NYC, Phillip Hefferton and Robert Dowd from Detroit ; Edward Ruscha and Joe Goode from Oklahoma City, and Wayne Thiebaud from California were included in the New Painting of Common Objects show.