In October 1905, amid the movement to eradicate professionalism from college football, Columbia's faculty dropped Thorp from the university.

"[5] The Long Island newspaper Newsday annually presents the Tom Thorp Award, which goes to the outstanding high school football player in Nassau County.

[7] Thorp was the 18th head football coach a New York University (NYU), serving for three seasons, from 1922 to 1924, and compiling a record of 14–10–2.

When post time passed for the race, a crowd of reporters gathered, and it was Thorp who finally delivered the news that "Seabiscuit scratched.

"[5] In late June 1942, after presiding over the races at Suffolk Downs, Thorp suffered a heart attack at a Boston hotel; he died a week later at Wyman House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.