Dent McSkimming

Florence Dent Archibald McSkimming (October 17, 1896 – July 13, 1976) was an American sportswriter for several St. Louis newspapers. He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1951.

McSkimming was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and began his sportswriting career at the St. Louis Star in 1913 and switched to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1922, where he worked until his retirement in 1961. He worked for a third St. Louis newspaper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as a police reporter.^[1]

During World War I, Dent McSkimming served as a pharmacist's mate on a Navy gunboat. In 1931, he worked at an English-language newspaper in Mexico City. McSkimming attended Stanford University for one year. During World War II, he served as a Red Cross field representative in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone.^[1]

1950 World Cup

McSkimming was the only American journalist at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, though he paid his own way to the event when his employer decided not to send him to cover it.^[2] He witnessed the United States' historic upset of England at that tournament describing it as "if Oxford University sent a baseball team over here and it beat the Yankees."^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Dent McSkimming". National Soccer Hall of Fame. http://national.soccerhall.org/builders/dent_%20mcSkimming.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-16. 
2. ^ Markovits, Andrei S.; Steven L. Hellerman (2001). Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism. Princeton University Press. p. 120. ISBN 069107447X. http://books.google.com/books?id=OTZexfpmyDwC&pg=PA120. 

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Name	Macskimming, Dent
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Short description	American sportswriter
Date of birth	October 17, 1896
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri
Date of death	July 13, 1976
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