Canton Bulldogs
Defunct American football team
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| 2025 | Named a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class. |
| 2024 | Announced by President Joe Biden to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. |
| 2024 | Ranked #7 on GiveMeSport's list of Top 50 Greatest Athletes of All Time. |
| 2024 | Jim Thorpe was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, recognizing his extraordinary athletic achievements and groundbreaking contributions to sports. |
| 2023 | Inducted into the Middle Atlantic AAU Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2023. |
| 2022 | Named a semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. |
| 2022 | Posthumously named as one of the 10 inaugural members of the Football Learning Academy's Hall of Honor. |
| July 14 2022 | The IOC voted to reinstate Jim Thorpe as the sole winner of his 1912 Olympic events, after receiving approval from the National Olympic Committees of Norway and Sweden. |
| 2020 | The Gazette declared him the Greatest of All Time. |
| 2020 | Ranked #5 on ESPN's Top 150 College Football Players of All Time, underscoring his enduring impact on college football. |
| 2020 | Named a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a contributor, but was not elected. |
| July 2020 | Bright Path Strong launched a petition calling for the IOC to reinstate Thorpe as the sole winner of his 1912 Olympic events, supported by Olympian Billy Mills. |
| 2019 | The Jim Thorpe Area Running Festival was inaugurated in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, featuring a marathon race that includes a unique course with a steady elevation drop from start to finish. |
| 2018 | Received the AAU Gussie Crawford Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to amateur sports. |
| 2018 | Ranked #7 on Bleacher Report's Top 50 Greatest Athletes of All Time. |
| 2018 | Honored on the Native American dollar coin, with proposed designs released in 2015. |
| 2018 | Inducted into the National Native American Hall of Fame as part of the Inaugural Class of 2018. |
| 2018 | Sol Butler was inducted as an inaugural member into the National High School Track and Field Hall of Fame, recognizing his significant contributions to track and field athletics. |
| May 2014 | University of Dubuque began awarding the Solomon Butler Character and Courage Award, honoring Butler's legacy and impact. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Ralph Hay, Guil Falcon, Sol Butler & Jim Thorpe, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.