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The Quad Cities' Rock Island Independents football team counted this legendary Sac and Fox Nation athlete as a member in 1924, and later in the 1920s he served as player-coach of the semi-professional Portsmouth Shoesteels in Portsmouth, Ohio. Which Olympic gold medallist and NFL pioneer is it?
Jim Thorpe (1887–1953) won pentathlon and decathlon gold at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics before turning to professional football and baseball. He was the first president of what became the NFL.