February 28, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — An article recalling Indiana University's 1915 hiring of legendary athlete Jim Thorpe to serve as an assistant football coach notes, "Thorpe, however, wouldn't arrive in
time to help the Hoosiers for their season opener vs. DePauw. Still, as
the campus buzzed over the unveiling of plans for a new gymnasium to be
built north of Jordan Field, Childs and his IU squad got off to a fast
start to the season, beating DePauw 7-0. A player only identified as
McIntosh scored the only touchdown of the game in the second quarter."
Published in Inside Indiana magazine and written by Ken Bikoff, the text adds, "A few days after the DePauw game the (Indiana Daily Student) announced that Thorpe would be arriving in Bloomington Thursday, Oct. 7. ... It’s time to take a step back and recognize the shockwave the
announcement of Thorpe's hiring sent through the Bloomington community.
Simply put, no real comparison can be made with any modern athlete. The
closest might be Bo Jackson, who was a Heisman Trophy winner and NFL
star while also becoming an All-Star baseball player. To match Thorpe,
Bo would also 
have needed to win the Tour de France or an Olympic Gold
medal. Then, Jackson would had to have come to IU to serve as an
assistant coach during the prime of his career. A better comparison
might be if Michael Jordan had continued to play basketball throughout
the 1990s while also becoming a major league baseball player and
winning the 100-meter sprint at the Olympics. It’s mind-boggling. The
fact that Thorpe would be coming to little ol' Indiana University to
help the foundering football team was staggering."
Read the complete piece by clicking here.
The 1915 DePauw Tigers won five of their remaining seven games that season. View a "Monon Memory" of the 1915 clash between DePauw and Wabash -- which was played November 20 in Indianapolis (and is seen in the action photo above) -- here: 
[Download Video: "1915 Monon Memory" - 2834kb].