Got a call at newspaper today froma guy saying our sports section was wrong in listing Jim Thorpe as black. I checked online, but it seems various publications list him as native american, and other as black.
2006-08-26 09:13:44 · 11 answers · asked by Beth D 2 in Sports ➔ Golf
By the way, Jim Thorpe WAS a famous golfer...different Thorpe than what some of you are htinkin'
Check this out-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe_(golfer)
2006-08-26 10:35:34 · update #1
Their are 2 Jim Thorpes,hence the confusion, 1 is currentlt playing the senior tour he's black and excellent golfer, he played the PGA tour during the time of Lee Elder and before Calvin Peete. The other Jim Thorpe was a football player and Heisman trophy winner and yes he was a Native American - although I prefer the term American Indian, since anyone born in the United States is a Native American.
2006-08-27 07:01:28 · answer #1 · answered by tesorotx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black JimThorpe plays on the senior tour - Indian Jim Thorpe was a native American
2006-08-27 18:08:20 · answer #2 · answered by Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black ,lived in Buffalo. Jim Thorpe the football player from the twenties was American Indian
2006-08-26 09:20:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jim Thorpe was a Native American Indian, Olympic runner, baseball player and football player. One of the greatest American athletes ever.
2006-08-26 09:23:23 · answer #4 · answered by irish_yankee51 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jim Thorpe was an American Indian, and he did not play golf. Thorpe played baseball and football, both professionally. As a young man he was an Olympian and won a number of medals. After the fact, it was learned that he had once accepted a small amount of money to play one game of baseball, and his medals were taken away from him. They were given back only recently, posthumously of course.
2006-08-26 09:22:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
THe golfing Jim Thorpe was black, the other Jim thorpe was n a
2006-08-26 14:04:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
native American
2006-08-26 09:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a Native American.
2006-08-26 11:45:38 · answer #8 · answered by CSUFGrad2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was Native American, but he didn't play golf
2006-08-26 09:44:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the golfer is black, on the champions tour
2006-08-27 00:18:31 · answer #10 · answered by texan_mailman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋