[This Week in History] Jim Thorpe: All-American, All Native American and the Making of Modern Football

[This Week in History] Jim Thorpe: All-American, All Native American and the Making of Modern Football

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On this episode of Our American Stories, in honor of Jim Thrope, who passed away this week in history in 1953, Sally Jenkins, author of The Real All-Americans, and Steve Sheinkin, author of Undefeated: Jim Thrope and the Carisle Indian School Football, tell the story of the man who changed the sporting world forever. 

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