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Smith, Red, 1905-1982

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Personal name headingSmith, Red, 1905-1982
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Variant(s)Smith, Walter Wellesley, 1905-
Smith, Walter Wellesley, 1905-1982
Birth date1905-09-25
Death date1982-01-15
Place of birthGreen Bay (Wis.)
Field of activitySports journalism
AffiliationUniversity of Notre Dame
Profession or occupationSportswriters
Found inFishel, D. Terry and Bunky play football, 1945.
His To absent friends, 1982: CIP t.p. (Red Smith; died 1/82)
The great American sports page, 2019: page viii (Red Smith (1905-1982))
Wikipedia web site, August 31, 2019: (Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith (September 25, 1905-January 15, 1982) was an American sportswriter. Smith's journalistic career spans over five decades and his work influenced an entire generation of writers. Smith became the second sports columnist ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1976 ; born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on September 25, 1905 ; Smith moved on to the University of Notre Dame and graduated in 1927 ; Smith mainly wrote about the sports that interested)
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