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Is ¨the greatest athlete in the world¨ REALLY a great athlete?

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Native American- "A person born in the United States", but refers to the early tribes that had a different color of skin than the European settlers.

Racism- "a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement,usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others."

definitions taken from dictionary.com

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American football is a sport made of a combination of rugby and soccer. Unlike soccer, there is a lot more scoring involved in the game, and feet are not the main focus.

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All of the evidence leads me to  that all of the authors think that Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes of all time, especially in Source 3, where the author was passionate about that idea, and by now, I think I agree with them.

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I realized over reading "Undefeated" that football has changed a lot since it was first introduced. Not only has points changed, but the sport has transitioned into a more balanced activity then just strength and height. Also, I was surprised by the fact that Pop Warner turned on Jim Thorpe and refused to support him. I wasn't expecting it at all. I always thought at the most that Pop had some anger problems, but I he seemed like a cool guy. I always kind of saw Pop and Jim as a father/son relationship until it happened. It's kind of like Hans in the movie Frozen, where his sudden turn against Anna made no sense.

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"Undefeated" is a non-fiction novel by Steve Sheinkin and is a book about the Carlisle Indian Boarding School, a place meant to, in Richard Henry Pratt, the headmaster's own words, "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man." In what is essentially a military academy, some of the young Indian men take an interest in the relatively new sport of American football. They find it as a way to escape the school in sme forms. The team's star player is Jim Thorpe, a Native American who has watched all of his family die, and the only place left to turn to is the boarding school. As he struggles with, racism, learning football, other athletics, and even the Olympics, Steve Sheinkin shows that an Indian can become one of the greats.

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In Jim Thorpe's biography, the author is trying to show that Thorpe's athleticism is what led him to fame. Quote, "However, it was football that propelled Thorpe to national renown." The author clearly states that football was his glory, and in the headig "Olympic Glory and Downfall",  the author mentions the fact that Sweden's king called Thorpe "the greatest athlete in the world."

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In the biography of Jim Thorpe in this website, it is clear that the author/creator of the website saw Jim Thorpe as good athlete. Literally the first sentences of  the biography state "Describing Jim Thorpe as a great athlete would be doing him a severe injustice. A better description would be calling him the greatest athlete of the 20th Century." and later on "“Pop” Warner coached Thorpe at Carlisle and was able to see the young phenomenon evolve in his pursuant excellence with athletics." The author goes on to talk about why Thorpe was such a great athlete as well as describing his life outside of athletics, like how he married thrice.

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In the "Jim Thorpe Biography", it is less clear that they author believes Thorpe is one of the greatest athletes. Other than the fact that the biography says nothing bad about him, there is only the part where the biography states "Thorpe, a great athlete but not a great baseball player..." It appears to be that the author admires Jim as an athlete, but is more professional and doesn't really show a bias towards him.

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No author is stated in sources 2-4. The most specific we can get is that whoever created the sites wrote the biographies about Thorpe.

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In the book "Undefeated", it is clear that Steve Sheinkin thinks Jim Thorpe as one of the greatest athletes of all time. This is shown through the certain pieces of Thorpe's life he decided to include in his book, and the fact that he decided to mostly leave out unpleasant details about Thorpe.

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As "Undefeated" is a non-fiction book and not an persuasive essay, there is really no room for Steve to show his bias by saying things like "Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes of all time." or something similar to that, but it isn't impossible to see what Steve is thinking. He, like all of the other authors shown, includes the fact that Sweden's king at the time of 1912 proclaimed Jim, "the greatest athlete in the world" while handing Thorpe his Olympic medals. There is also the fact that Steve never really says anything bad about Thorpe, aside from his batting statistics while playing for the New York Giants, stating that "Jim Thorpe never did become a great baseball player." Yet, as that statement was in the epilogue, it is apparent that Steve put that fact in purely to showcase the rest of his life after the Carlisle team, instead of having any sort of bias against Thorpe.

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In conclusion, it has been proven that Steve Sheinkin believes that Jim Thorpe is one of the greatest athletes of all time. Even though that might be pretty obvious, seeing Thorpe is a Olympic gold medalist and football star. He really is a hard worker and a good soul.

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I think how these authors look at Jim Thorpe all connects, because they all contribute to the idea that Thorpe is a great athlete, with some like the author in Source 3 stating it right from the beginning. From the king of Sweden to his determination, it isn't hard to agree that Thorpe was a football/athletic legend.