{"id":55,"date":"2017-04-18T20:10:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:12:38","slug":"achievements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>College Football Hall of Fame &#8211; 1951<\/li>\n<li>Charter Enshrinee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame &#8211; 1963<\/li>\n<li>All-America &#8211; 1911, 1912<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Decathlon and Pentathlon Champion &#8211; 1912<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;America&#8217;s Greatest Football Player of the half-century&#8221; &#8211; 1950<\/li>\n<li>ABC&#8217;s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century &#8211; 2001<\/li>\n<li>Track and Field Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<li>In 1950, the nation&#8217;s Associated Press poll selected Jim Thorpe as the Most Outstanding Athlete of the first half of the 20th Century<\/li>\n<li>Thorpe was the only player to ever hit 3 home runs into 3 different states during the same baseball game.<\/li>\n<li>Thorpe also had the ability to kick a football over 100 yards. He could stand at one goal post and kick the ball to the other goal post!<\/li>\n<li>From 1996-2001, he was continuously awarded ABC&#8217;s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Football Hall of Fame &#8211; 1951 Charter Enshrinee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame &#8211; 1963 All-America &#8211; 1911, 1912 Olympic Decathlon and Pentathlon Champion &#8211; 1912 &#8220;America&#8217;s Greatest Football Player of the half-century&#8221; &#8211; 1950 ABC&#8217;s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century &#8211; 2001 Track and Field Hall of Fame &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/achievements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Achievements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/sports\/thorpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}