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PLAYERS: Jim Thorpe
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by Chris TomassonPRAGUE, Okla. and JIM THORPE, Pa. -- There is nothing too fancy where Jack Thorpe stands. It's in a rural Oklahoma graveyard surrounded by a chain-link fence and across the street from Garden Grove Church. This is where Jack Thorpe wants his father, Jim Thorpe, perhaps the greatest athlete who ever lived, to be moved for burial 56 years after his death. There are no plans for an elaborate tomb or for any extras. He simply wants his father to be buried underneath a simple ...

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