Our American Stories[This Week in History] Jim Thorpe: All-American, All Native American and the Making of Modern Football
On this episode of Our American Stories, in honor of Jim Thrope, who passed away this week in history in 1953, Sally Jenkins, author of The Real All-Americans, and Steve Sheinkin, author of Undefeated: Jim Thrope and the Carisle Indian School Football, tell the story of the man who changed the sporting world forever.
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