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, Joe Hipp, Notah Begay III, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Billy Mills are well known professional athletes.

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

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.

Sports talk radio can be found locally and nationally in the US ( with the networks ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Radio, as well as nationally syndicated hosts Jim Rome and Dan Patrick ).

* Notable recent graduates of the college include: former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, and former Nebraska Congressman Hal Daub ; George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse ; Avram Glazer, chairman of Manchester United ; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Ken Cooper and Hank Klibanoff ; Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate films ; actors Peter Sarsgaard ( Boys Don't Cry, An Education, Flight Plan ) and Harold Ramis ( Ghostbusters, Caddyshack ); U. S. Ambassador Sam Fox ; baseball player Dal Maxvill ; and science-show host Deanne Bell ( Design Squad ).

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

The collection includes the work of many photographers from Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Clementina Maude, Gustave Le Gray, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Frederick Hollyer, Samuel Bourne, Roger Fenton, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ilse Bing, Bill Brandt, Cecil Beaton ( there are over 8000 of his negatives ), Don McCullin, David Bailey, Jim Lee and Helen Chadwick to the present day.

Fox featured as a character in the 1994 movie The Madness of King George, portrayed by Jim Carter ; in the 2006 movie Amazing Grace, played by Michael Gambon ; and in the 2008 movie The Duchess, played by Simon McBurney.

Fox hired Terry Erdmann ( Blue Blaze code name " Silver Fox ") and a team of publicists including Blake Mitchell and Jim Ferguson to promote the film at Star Trek conventions with a few film clips and free Banzai headbands, which have since become highly-sought-after collector's items by fans of the film.

Director Wes Anderson included a number of songs ( among them " Buckeye Jim ") by Ives on the soundtrack for his 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox.

* Jim Carter as Whig MP and leader of the opposition Charles James Fox.

Initially, he was trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who had taken Gallant Fox to the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

1 candidates were: West Jim Bollan, Glasgow Frances Curran, Central Kevin McVey, Lothian Colin Fox, South Colin Turbett, Mid Scotland and Fife Morag Balfour, North East Angela Gorrie, Highlands and Islands Pam Currie.

* Stoned ( is One Stone in Dub engineered by Fathead and Jim Fox ) ( 1996 ), RAS

Gimbel and Fox were also the songwriters of " Killing Me Softly with His Song " and the theme songs to films and programs such as Last American Hero (" I Got A Name ," sung by Jim Croce ), Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman.

Other bandmembers at one time or another included George Bias ( vocals ), Benny Carter ( clarinet, alto saxophone ), Doc Cheatham ( trumpet ), Bill Coti ( vocals ), Ed Cuffee ( trombone ), Sidney de Paris ( trumpet ), Lois Deppe ( vocals ), Leonard Davis ( trumpet ), Jimmy Dudley ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Coleman Hawkins ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Robert Inge ( clarinet, ( alto saxophone ), Quentin Jackson ( trombone ), Moxey-Hilton Jefferson ( clarinet, alto saxophone ), James P. Johnson ( piano ), Buddy Lee ( trumpet ), Donald King ( vocals ), Kaiser Marshall ( drums ), Frank Marvin ( vocals ), Theodore McCord ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Jim Napier ( vocals ), Milton Senior ( trumpet ), Joe " Fox " Smith ( trumpet, cornet ), Rex Stewart ( cornet ), Billy Taylor ( tuba ), Fats Waller ( piano, celeste ).

In Star Fox: Assault, his voice was done by Jim Walker in the English release and by Kenji Nojima in the Japanese release.

* Fox, Jim.

The Founding Members are Phillip Alberstat, Chris Auty, Suzanne Ballantyne, André Burgess, Sally Caplan, Pippa Cross, Christopher Fowler, Lora Fox Gamble, Steven Gaydos, Elliot Grove, Norma Heyman, Emma E. Hickox, Fred Hogge, Robert Jones, Steve Kenis, Alberto Lopez, Ollie Madden, Hamish McAlpine, Neil McCartney, Saul Metzstein, Martin Myers, Sarah Radclyffe, Tracey Scoffield, Mark Shivas, Jim Wilson, and Michiyo Yoshizaki.

), with Jim Fox.

These included Daniel Boone ( not the Fess Parker characterization ), Texas John Slaughter, Elfego Baca, Francis Marion, the " Swamp Fox ", and Kit Carson and the Mountain Man ( 1977 ), with Christopher Connelly as Kit Carson, Robert Reed as John C. Fremont, and Gregg Palmer as mountain man Jim Bridger.

Gene Fowler, A. D. Winans, Hugh Fox, street poet and activist Jack Hirschman, Paul Foreman, Jim Cohn, John Bennett, and F. A. Nettelbeck are among the many poets who are still actively continuing the Small Press Poets tradition.

During the late 1970s, Ottawa was led by scoring champions Peter Lee, Bobby Smith and Jim Fox.

The dark side of boxing once again emerged: Jake LaMotta alleged at a hearing that he had thrown a fight with Billy Fox in exchange for a try at the world Middleweight title, and Jim Norris, an important promoter of the time, was associated with Blinky Palermo and Frankie Carbo, two Mafia members of the time.

Jim Gianopulos is currently the chairman of Fox Entertainment Group, as was Tom Rothman until 2012.