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MURRAY
OLDERMAN
Sport: Media
Inducted: 1997
Country: United States
Born: March 27, 1922
in New York, New York
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Sports
columnist and cartoonist Murray Olderman’s work appeared
in 750
daily newspapers for the greater part
of 35 years. His columns and cartoons
were distributed by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association (NEA), a Scripps-
Howard syndicate. Olderman is also
the author of eleven books and illustrator
of nine others. He is the founder
of the Jim Thorpe Trophy—for the National
Football League’s Most Valuable
Player, and the founder of the
Maurice Podoloff Trophy—for the National
Basketball Association’s MVP.
His football murals hang at the Football
Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Olderman is holder of a bachelor’s
degree in journalism from the University
of Missouri, bachelor’s degree in Science
and Humanities from Stanford
University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa,
and a masters degree in journalism
from Northwestern University. He
joined the NEA in 1952, became its
sports editor in 1964, its executive editor
in 1968, a contributing editor in
1971, and he loosely retired in 1987.
Among the numerous publications he
has also contributed to as a writer or
cartoonist are Sports Illustrated, Saturday
Evening Post, The Sporting News,
Tennis, World Tennis, Golf Digest, Inside
Sports, and Skiing Magazine.
In 1974, and again in 1979, Olderman
was named Sports Cartoonist of
the Year by the National Cartoonists
Society. He received the Pro Football
Writers Association’s Dick McGann
Award in 1979, as outstanding professional
football writer. In 1991, the (college)
Football Writers Association of
America honored him with their Mc-
Grane Award. And, he has served as president of the Football
Writers Association
of America.
Among the books Olderman either
authored or co-authored are The 20th
Century Encyclopedia of Baseball, Tennis
Clinic, The Warrior Way, Just Win, Baby,
Starr, and the three-book Prentice-Hall
series, The Pro Quarterback, The Running
Backs, and The Defenders.
A recipient of many professional
writing and cartooning honors in addition
to those already mentioned, Olderman
was inducted into the National
Sportswriters Hall of Fame in 1993. |
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