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April 11, 1969

Mr. John H. Broujos
Attorney at Law
4 North Honover Street
Carlisle, Pennsylvania  17013

Dear Mr. Broujos:

Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of April 8th.  

Shortly following the 1912 Olympic Games, a newspaper article was published in the New England area to the effect that Jim Thorpe was a professional athlete at the time he competed in the Games in Stockholm as he had played professional baseball.

James E. Sullivan, who was at the time Secretary of the USOC, as well as the AAU of the U.S., wrote a letter to the superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School, placing these facts before him and asking him to find out from Jim Thorpe whether or not there was any truth to the story.  The replay came back that Jim Thorpe had admitted to the violation of amateur rules.

The case was fully discussed by committees of the USOC and the AAU of the U.S. and Jim Thorpe was requested to return to the trophies which he ad won at Stockholm.  These consisted of two Olympic Gold medals,a bronze bust of the king of Sweden and a silver Viking ship.  These two latter trophies were not awarded to Thorpe to keep permanently but were to be returned just before the International Olympic Games.  These trophies were returned to the International Olympic Committee and I believe they are in the trophy case of the IOC at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.  The two Gold medals were returned to the Swedish Olympic Organizing Committee and they in turn presented these gold medals to the athletes who placed second to Thorpe in the Decathlon and Pentathion.

It has been reported from time to time that these athletes refused to accept the medals.  Officially they were accepted as these athletes felt that they were fully entitled to them.  If Thorpe