Let's go with Jim Thorpe and Lionel Conacher:
Lionel Conacher:
It would be hard to find a sport that Conacher didn't excel at, if he tried. He could run the 100-yard dash in 10.0 seconds when the world record was 9.8. He was the Canadian heavyweight boxing champion and the wrestling champion of Ontario. He played professional baseball in the International League, one step below the majors. He scored 15 points in the 1921 Grey Cup championship, when his Toronto Argonauts beat the Edmonton Eskimos 23-0 for the Canadian football championship.
But his greatest fame was as a hockey player. He may not have been as skilled as his brother Charlie, but he was certainly rougher and tougher. In 1936, he and Charlie had a fight that started on the ice and moved up a ramp into the lobby of the rink, when Charlie finally gave up.
Lionel, known as "Big Train," a kind of reverse pun on his name, entered the NHL with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925. He was traded to the New York Americans during the 1926/27 season, then went to the Montreal Maroons. After three seasons with them, he played for the Chicago Black Hawks for one season and returned to the Maroons for three more, retiring in 1937.
He scored 80 goals and had 105 assists, with 882 penalty minutes in 500 regular season games, and he added 2 goals, 2 assists and 34 penalty minutes in 35 playoff games.
[edit] Baseball
In 1920, Lionel hit the game-winning home run to give his team the Toronto semipro baseball crown, then promptly took a taxi across the city and scored four goals for his lacrosse team, which was losing 3-0 when he arrived. In 1926, he played professional baseball as an outfielder for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League. His team won the pennant and the Triple A championship.[21]
[edit] Boxing
In 1920 Lionel won the Canadian amateur light heavyweight boxing title. In 1921 Lionel boxed a four-round exhibition with Jack Dempsey. [22]
[edit] Lacrosse
Lionel also played lacrosse for the Toronto Maitlands, and helped guide that team to the Ontario Senior Lacrosse championship in 1922.[23] In 1931, Conacher became professional in a third sport when he played for the Montreal Maroons in the International Indoor Professional Lacrosse League. [24] In 1965, he was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
[edit] Wrestling
In 1916 Conacher won the amateur lightweight wrestling championship of Ontario in the 125 pound weight class at age 16 year old. After training with Ali Hassan, he made his pro debut in May 1932 for Toronto promoter Ivan Mickailoff. Conacher went 27-0 as a pro wrestler in Canada and the United States in 1933 and never lost a match in his career. [25]
