CANTON
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Home of Pro Football Hall of Fame
The City of Canton in Ohio was founded on November 15, 1805, incorporated as a village in 1822, and re-incorporated as a city in 1838.
Canton was designated the county seat of Stark County upon its division from Columbiana County on January 1, 1809. Canton is the adopted home of the 25th U.S. President William McKinley.
Canton’s nickname is “Hall of Fame City”. Canton is chiefly notable for being the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the birthplace of the National Football League. Canton is also the location of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the NFL’s annual Hall of Fame Game.
Who was Jim Thorpe?
James Francis Thorpe (1887-1953) (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as “Bright Path”; was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.
He is considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon). He also played American football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and basketball.
James Thorpe and NFL football
Jim Thorpe of the Bulldogs was the NFL’s first president. Thorpe, of the Sac and Fox Nation, as a Native American, gold medal winner, and NFL star, was a role model for other Native Americans to become Olympians. Thorpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963, one of seventeen players in the charter class.
Thorpe is memorialized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame rotunda with a larger-than-life statue. He was also inducted into halls of fame for college football, American Olympic teams, and the national track and field competition.
James Thorpe and the IOC
On July 14, 2022 the Lausanne, Switzerland based International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the sole winner of the gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics was Jim Thorpe (born: James Francis Thorpe (1887-1953).
Those two medals were taken from him due to the IOC erroneously classifying him as professional for violating the then contemporary amateurism rules in 1912. The IOC voted to correct their 110 year error. They voted to reinstate Thorpe as the sole winner of both events on July 14, 2022.
On this 110th anniversary of Jim Thorpe being awarded his Olympic gold medals, Thorpe’s friends and the Native American community that has long lamented the decision against one of its greatest heroes, welcomes the news of his reinstatement.
James Thorpe’s later life
Jim Thorpe enjoyed plenty of other athletic success in his life, between an All-Pro NFL career and a seven-year MLB career, but, like many, hit hard times during the Great Depression.
He was named the greatest athlete of the first 50 years of the 20th century by The Associated Press in 1950, and third-greatest of the entire century in 1999, behind only Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan.
On September 17, 1920, a meeting was held at the Hupmobile showroom in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building in Canton to found the American Professional Football Association (renamed the National Football League in 1922.
Birmingham is home to the new United States Football League (USFL), a new independent football league with the inaugural and season games being played in Birmingham, Alabama. The USFL 2022 playoffs and championship game to be held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio.
Canton has a thriving downtown with a growing and thriving arts district. In June 2016, Canton became one of the first cities in Ohio to allow the open consumption of alcoholic beverages in a “designated outdoor refreshment area” pursuant to a state law enacted in 2015.
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