The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-19
JIM THORPE IS THROUGH
 WITH PIGSKIN

Philadelphia, December 1S.-(Special.)- )- Jim Thorpe, that wonderful Indian ath- lete, has probably played his last foot eall game. for he has declared that the battle between his Canton Bulldogs and the Union All-Americans, played here last Saturday, marked the end of his grldiron career, a career made brilliant by his many feats of daring and skill on the football field.
 Thorpe has been in the fottball lime light for F successive seasons during which time he has smashed rival lines and encircled their ends until he has become the terror of every gridiron on which he plays Since his college career at Carlisle, Thorpe has been playing pro fessional football, and doing it in man Fer which has attracted nationwide at tention. Jim Thorpe has often been called the greatest football player ever produced by the game and his admirers are not far wrong in claiming this dis tinction for him
 He has very pleasant personality, has thjs full-blooded Sac and Fox Indian Who first leaped into the athletic lime light while wearing the colors of the fa- nous Carlisle Indian school. Six feet tall straight as one of the arrows his ancestors sent whizzing at the invading white settlers, so modest it is impossible 10 get him to discuss any of his own ex- ploits, speaking the colloquial English of the day, and quickly appreciative of the humorous Thorpe is a good mixer" no matter what company he may be in.
 He has broadened out about the chest and shoulders since he used to flash on Franklin field a decade ago in those me Rorable games between the Red and Slue and Pop" Warmers remarkable Carlisle elevens. He is not quite so fast, 1,e I. I,a .t, ,fi a gridiron marvel.
 Johnny Scott, the former Lafayette star, who has played against Thorpe this fall. remarked tiday: "jim may have gone back, I am not so sure about that myself, but am certain that he is a whole heap better than the big major ity of present day stars"
 LIKE LAJOIE
 Thorpe is the Larry Jajoie of football. He does everything with such graceful ease that nothing looks hard, just as Lajoie used to handle sizzling liners around second base with such a non chalant air the fans failed to realize how difficult were the, plays "King Larry made with perfect accuracy day in and day out.
 It is the same with Thorpe. He can punt, drop or place kick, buck the line, swing around the ends or toss a forward pass. Then, too, he can catch foot ball as easily as Triss Speaker snares aseball And he is a demon on defense. No man he gets within reaching distance of ever keeps on going. No, the runner stops, and stops abruptly.
 DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT
 Thorpe had never seen a football until he went to the Carlisle school in the fall of 1905. He was only kid then, being but feet 5 inches tall and weighing barely 115 pounds. He did not go in for athletics at first; in fact it was not un- til the spring of 1908 that he accidentally attracted the attention of Pop" war ner by the easy fashion in which he cleared the high jump bar while dressed in working clothes.
 Warner concentrated on Thorpe after that and year later Jim was star at every branch of sport, track, football, basketball, baseball and lacrosse all be- ing included. He soon shot up to the 6 foot mark, and his best playing weight was between 1So and 1SS pounds.
 Baseball in the summer, football in the autumn, hunting and fishing in the win ter and spring, together with his GUS tom of never eating more than two meats 3 day have served to keep him in fine physical condition, and he weighs about .the same now as when he was at Carfsie q never eat luncheon, Thorpe sald. T eat a hearty breakfast and a falrly hearty dinner, but never gorge Hiyseil as some people do,'' and he shot look at Pete Calac, another former Carlisle iuminary who is also a member of the Canton team. Calac grinned sheeplsniy, while "Bunny'' Corkran and Lou Smith, also of the Bulldog squad, who were lounging nearby, laughed heartiS- Calac, they explained, was the champlon long distance food absorber Of the team In the autumn of 1913 Thorpe was mar ried to Miss Margaret Iva Miller, grad uate of Carlisle school who attended the institution while he was also a student there. They have two children one 3 years old, the other 6. Mrs. Thorpe ana inc youngsters live in the east during the baseball and football seasons but the whole family hurries back to Thorpe's farm near Yale, Oklahoma, for the win ter and spring.
 Though not a millionaire, like some members of his tribe, on whose land oil was found Thorpe is well-to-do, and has played professional football more for the sport of the thing than the fmancial