Dick McCann Memorial Award - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Dick McCann Memorial Award is bestowed annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Pro Football Hall of Fame

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...

"for long and distinguished reporting on professional football". The award was created in 1969 and is named for Dick McCann, who was the first director of the Hall of Fame. Presentation of the award is made annually at the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Pro Football Hall of Fame

Enshrinees Dinner.

The list of McCann Award honorees is sometimes referred to as the "writer's wing" of the Hall of Fame.

Award recipients

Year	Awardee	Publication
1969	George Strickler	Chicago Tribune
1970	Arthur Daley	New York Times
1971	Joe King	New York World-Telegram and Sun
1972	Lewis Atchison	Washington Star
1973	Dave Brady	Washington Post
1974	Bob Oates	Los Angeles Times
1975	John Steadman John Steadman John Steadman was an American sportswriter for The Baltimore Sun. His career spanned 7 decades and he attended and reported on every Super Bowl from its inception until his death.-Background:...	Baltimore News-American
1976	Jack Hand	Associated Press
1977	Art Daley	Green Bay Press-Gazette
1978	Murray Olderman Murray Olderman Murray Olderman is an artist who specialized in cartoons related to sports. He received the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1974 and 1978. His artwork often accompanied the sports stories he authored. His art also has been used by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and hung above...	Newspaper Enterprise Assoc.
1979	Pat Livingston	Pittsburgh Press
1980	Chuck Heaton Chuck Heaton Charles "Chuck" Heaton, Jr. is an American sports news columnist,journalist, commentator, and reporter. He worked for 50 years as a sporswriter for The Cleveland Plain Dealer inCleveland, Ohio...	Cleveland Plain Dealer
1981	Norm Miller	New York Daily News
1982	Cameron Snyder Cameron Snyder Cameron Crockett Snyder was an American sportswriter for The Baltimore Sun. He was awarded the Dick McCann Memorial Award in 1982.-Background:...	Baltimore Morning Sun
1983	High Brown	Philadelphia Bulletin
1984	Larry Felser Larry Felser Larry Felser is a former sports columnist and writer for the Buffalo Courier-Express and later, The Buffalo Evening News, where he was a football beat writer, a columnist, and rose to the position of Sports Editor.Felser covered every one of the first 37 Super Bowls, until his retirement, and was...	Buffalo News
1985	Cooper Rollow	Chicago Tribune
1986	Bill Wallace	New York Times
1987	Jerry Magee Jerry Magee Sports columnist Jerry Magee was called "an American Football League apologist" by his contemporaries who covered NFL football. Eventually, he adopted that sobriquet as a badge of honor. At every opportunity, Magee took on NFL apologists like William Wallace of The New York Times and Jerry Green...	San Diego Union
1988	Gordon Forbes Gordon Forbes Gordon Forbes born February 21, 1934 Cape Town, South Africa is a former South African professional tennis player and author.During the 1950s and 60s, he was the doubles partner of Abe Segal...	USA Today
1989	Vito Stellino	Baltimore Sun
1990	Will McDonough Will McDonough William "Will" McDonough was an American sportswriter for the Boston Globe.-Biography:McDonough attended the English High School of Boston, where he starred in baseball as a pitcher and in football as a quarterback...	Boston Globe
1991	Dick Connor	Denver Post
1992	Frank Luksa	Dallas Morning News
1993	Ira Miller	San Francisco Chronicle
1994	Don Pierson	Chicago Tribune
1995	Ray Didinger Ray Didinger Ray Didinger is an award-winning American sportswriter, author, film writer, radio host, TV commentator, and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame .-Early life and career:...	Philadelphia Daily News
1996	Paul Zimmerman Paul Zimmerman Paul Lionel Zimmerman is the son of Charles S. Zimmerman and Rose Zimmerman. Zimmerman, also known to readers as "Dr. Z", is an American football sportswriter who wrote for the weekly magazine Sports Illustrated, as well as the magazine's website, SI.com. He is sometimes confused with Paul D...	Sports Illustrated
1997	Bob Roesler	New Orleans Times-Picayune
1998	Dave Anderson Dave Anderson (sportswriter) Dave Anderson is an American sportswriter based in New York City. After graduating in 1947 from Xavier High School - an elite Jesuit preparatory school in New York City - Anderson attended the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, graduating in 1951.Anderson has written for a number of New...	New York Times
1999	Art Spander Art Spander Arthur Melvin Spander is an award-winning American sports writer. Through 7/21/08, he was a columnist for the Oakland Tribune/MediaNews and the American columnist for the Scotland Sunday Herald and the London-based Daily Telegraph...	Oakland Tribune
2000	Tom McEwen Tom McEwen Tom McEwen, is an American drag racer, who won the U.S. Nationals during part of his 45 year career. He is listed as number 16 of the 50 most significant drivers of NHRA’s first 50 years. He received the nickname "the Mongoose" in 1964 from engine builder Ed Donovan. It was largely originally used...	Tampa Tribune
2001	Len Shapiro	Washington Post
2002	Edwin Pope	Miami Herald
2003	Joel Buchsbaum	Pro Football Weekly
2004	Rick Gosselin	Dallas Morning News
2005	Jerry Green Jerry Green (writer) Jerry Green is an American sports journalist and author. He was a staff writer for the Associated Press from 1956 to 1963 and for The Detroit News from 1963 to 2004. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2003...	Detroit News
2006	John McClain	Houston Chronicle
2007	John Clayton John Clayton (sportscaster) John Travis Clayton is a National Football League writer and reporter for ESPN. He is also a senior writer for ESPN.com.-Early career:...	ESPN.com
2008	Len Pasquarelli Len Pasquarelli Len Pasquarelli is an American sports writer and analyst with The Sports Xchange and a 25-year vet of covering the NFL.The Sports Xchange is a network of professional, accredited reporters and analysts who cover each team or sport full time....	ESPN.com
2009	Peter King Peter King (sportswriter) Peter King is an American sportswriter. He currently writes for Sports Illustrated and its Web site, including the weekly multiple-page column Monday Morning Quarterback. He is the author of five books, most notably Inside the Helmet, as well as a TV analyst and reporter...	Sports Illustrated
2010	Pete Finney	New Orleans Times-Picayune

Award recipients

See also