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Canton, Ohio and the National Football LeagueEach year, approximately 200,000 fans from all over the world visit the Pro FootballHall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The museum’s guest register reveals that in a year’stime, visitors come from all fifty states and from sixty to seventy foreign countries.Many wonder why the Hall of Fame is located in this small northeast Ohio city.Often, museums are built in locations that have historical significance to their subjectmatter. The Pro Football Hall of Fame is no exception. Canton’s ties to pro football beganlong before the Hall of Fame was built in 1963. On September 17, 1920, a meeting washeld in an automobile showroom in downtown Canton. It was at this time that theAmerican Professional Football Association was formed. Two years later, the leaguechanged its name to the National Football League.FOOTBALL FACTS AND FIGURESToday, fans follow teams like the Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers, and the MiamiDolphins. But, in 1920, none of those teams existed. Rather, the NFL had teams like theColumbus Panhandles, Dayton Triangles, Rochester Jeffersons, and the Canton Bulldogs.The Canton Bulldogs were the first real profootball powerhouse. They won the NFL title in1922 and 1923 making them the league’s firsttwo-time champion.They were a strong team even before the NFLbegan because of their star player Jim Thorpe.Thorpe, a Native American Indian, was atremendous athlete. Not only did he play profootball but he played pro baseball and won twogold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games. Eventoday, he is considered to be one of the world’sgreatest athletes of all time.While the Bulldogs are no longer around, profootball remembers its early days in Canton,Ohio. Visitors, young and old, enjoy the story ofpro football’s history in the city where the NFLbegan!The legendary Jim ThorpePro Football Hall of Fame Educational Outreach Program 6 Detroit Lions Edition
Who Was Jim Thorpe?It seems that whenever stories are written about an all-time pro football great, JimThorpe’s name comes up. Jim Thorpe was born in a one-room cabin in Prague,Oklahoma, on May 28, 1888. Though he had some Irish and French blood, he was mostlyof Sac and Fox Indian heritage. In fact, his Indian name was Wa-Tho-Huk, which meansBright Path.Though football was his first love, he gained his greatest fame as a track star, winning thedecathlon and pentathlon events in the 1912 Olympics, held in Stockholm, Sweden. KingGustav V of Sweden told Thorpe as he presented him with his medals, “Sir, you are thegreatest athlete in the world.” But soon afterward, Thorpe was stripped of his records andmedals when it was learned that he had played minor league baseball for money in 1911.In 1984 the Olympic Committee decided that this was an unfair interpretation of the thenOlympic rules and restored his records and returned his medals to his family.In 1915, Thorpe’s great abilities and fame led Jack Cusack to offer him $250 a game toplay football for the Canton Bulldogs. While that may not sound like much, it was twice asmuch as most players were making back then. Even Cusack’s friends warned him that hewas paying Thorpe too much. Just the same, Thorpe was everything Cusack had hopedhe would be -- a great player and a gate attraction. After missing the first two games ofthe 1916 season because he was playing pro baseball for the New York Giants, Thorpejoined the Canton squad. With Jim playing halfback, the Bulldogs were unofficial WorldChampions in 1916, 1917 and 1919. (The Bulldogs’ championships are said to beunofficial since no organized pro league existed at the time.)Many old-timers who actually played against Thorpe claim he was the toughest man everto play the game. Some folks claim Jim would drop-kick a field goal from the 50-yard line,then turn and kick another 50-yarder in the opposite direction with perfect results-just toshow off. Others say he could punt a ball the length of the field. Both are probablyexaggerations. In any case, there is no doubt that Thorpe was a superb athlete. Allaccounts suggest he could run with speed and bruising power. He could pass and catchpasses with the best. He could kick with accuracy and strength. And, of course, as playersdid back then, he played defense too.By the time the NFL was organized in 1920, the thirty-two-year-old Thorpe, who wasalready past his athletic prime, was unanimously voted the league’s charter president.However, he managed to play eight NFL seasons with six different teams and his gateappeal continued. Though at times he sparkled like the Thorpe of old, he never reallyexcelled as much in the NFL as he had in his earlier career. In 1928, at the age of forty hefinally called it quits. In 1950, the nation’s press honored Thorpe by being named the mostoutstanding athlete of the first fifty years of the twentieth century. In 1963, he was electeda charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.Source: Excerpt from The Official Pro Football Hall of Fame Answer Book by JoeHorrigan, Simon & Shuster Inc., 1990.FOOTBALL FACTS AND FIGURESIf you would like to know more about Jim Thorpe, a good book to read is JimThorpe by Bob Wheeler (University of Oklahoma Press, 1979).Detroit Lions Edition 7 Pro Football Hall of Fame Educational Outreach Program
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