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To: treetopsandroofs

Thorpe’s medals and victory was restored in 1982


25 posted on 07/31/2017 11:00:08 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

(I knew that)

Yeah, almost in time to sway opinion and get the professionals into the Olympics, but drat it all (/s), they had to wait until 1992.

Jim Thorpe died in 1953.

Nope, no sale, Olympics.


38 posted on 07/31/2017 11:09:59 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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