The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-01
CARLISLE STUDENT
A W0RLDBEATER
One of the Best All-Around
Men Ever Known in
Sports

Carlisle. Pa, Nov. Football thi.
season has brought into the public
eye q young Indian student at the
Carlisle school. who promises to be.
come the greatest athlete the world
has ever seen. James Thorpe, a Sac
and Fox, from Oklahoma, came te
Carlisle in 1908, with no knowledge
whatever Of athletics. and under the
tutelage of Glen Warner he has &C.
compltshed such a marvellous variety
OF athletic feats on floor, gridiron, dia.
mond, track. and in the field, that the
world Of college trainers has been as.
tonished by his achievements.
1t is difficult for n one to believe
that an apparently normal youth
could rank among the leading ath-
letes Of the world in more than one
or two. or perhaps three, special lines
OF activity. but James Thorpe has
broken all traditions by approaching
world records in so many lines of &C.
tivity that physical trainers are at a
loss to account for his skillful feats
Of strength and endurance.
He is not only a basketball player,
at which game he fills the center pc.
sition with truly remarkable skill, but
he is a baseball pitcher Of great talent,
and covers any of the sacks or out
fields with as much credit as a pro.
fesstonal player. He can put the 16-
pound shot 43 feet, and broad-jumps
~ feet, 10 inches. having done much
better in practice. He can run 100
yards In 10 seconds. his school rec
ord being 10 LIS. When he tries the
high jump. his measure Is 6 feet, but
he has done better than that. The
high hurdles are pie to him in Is As
seconds. while the 220-yard hurdles
ho nar0ffofoo IN oc caoo~A,
This youthful redskin hunts. plays
lacrosse tennis. indoor baseball, hand
ball hockey. all with equal skill, and
can fill almost any position in n foot
ball team with s%uperlative credit. AS
football halfback he is probably seen
at his best, whirling, twisting, dash
ing and %plunging, for one moment be.
wildering his opponents with 1.-the,
panther-ltke leaps, and the next
crushing his way through a mass Of
would-be tacklers with the ~ferocity
OF a mad bull. One great American
coach said. after seeing him play at
times the admission to a game to see
Thorpe tear down the field for one
squirt. TIT.
Thorpe. who is only &c years old,
is 6 feet tall. and averages about IFS
pounds in weight. He gave little
promise of his wonderful talent until
his second year at Carlisle. when in
a dual meet against Syracuse univer-
sity, In which the aborigines were VIC
torious by a narrow margin. Thorpe
won the high jump. broad jump, and
was first in the high and low hurdles,
defeating Thor In the shot-put. and
making second place in the hammer
throw. In the same year. at the Penn
sylvania intercollegiate meet at Har-
risburg. he won the high jump at 6
feet. broad jump. hammer throw and
high and low hurdles. A week or
two later. In the Middle Atlantic Dis
trict Athletic association meet, held
at Philadelphia, he took first place
In the five vents mentioned above.
During his second year at Carlisle
he was first substitute on the football
eleven. and played in several games.
The next year he played regularly
as left half. and began to show stellar
qualities. He punted we'll, kicked
field goals. and scored the touchdown
tying Penn. After school In 1909 he
took his summer vacation. and did