James Francis Thorpe, whose Sac and Fox Indian name was Wa-Tho-Huck, meaning "Bright Path," was born on May 22, 1887, south of present-day Prague. He attended Haskell Indian School in Kansas and Carlisle Institute in Pennsylvania, where he excelled in football and track. At the 1912 Olympics, Thorpe won both the decathlon and pentathlon events. He played Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1919 and professional football from 1915 to 1929, became the first President of The National Football League, was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame, and was voted the world's greatest male athlete in the first half of the 20th Century by Associated Press D in 1953.