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Episode Detail: Jim Thorpe - SportsCentury

A profile of Jim Thorpe. Thorpe was a multi-sport star in the early 20th century, won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics, and was named the greatest athlete of the first half-century in a 1950 A.P. poll.

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