- Allison Danzig
Allison Danzig (
27 February ,1898 -27 January 1987 ) was an American sportswriter who specialized in writing abouttennis but also covered U.S. college football, squash, many Olympic Games, and rowing.Danzig covered every tournament in the Grand Slam — the U.S. Open, the
Australian Open , Wimbledon, and theFrench Open — as well as many others. Danzig was later inducted into theInternational Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI becoming the first journalist in the Hall. In an interview shortly before his death, he namedBill Tilden as the greatest player he had covered.Danzig was born in 1898 in
Waco, Texas , but grew up inAlbany, New York . Talent ran in the family. His sister,Evelyn Danzig , wrote the music for the hit song"Scarlet Ribbons" in 1949.He graduated in 1921 from
Cornell University , where he was co-editor of The Daily Sun withE.B. White . Danzig also briefly played football at Cornell as 130-pound tailback. He joined "The New York Times " in 1923, after a stint at theBrooklyn Eagle , and remained there until his retirement in 1967. Before becoming a sportswriter, Danzig wrote obituaries and was originally planning for a career as a foreign correspondent.Danzig wrote "The Racquet Game" (1930), about squash, as well as histories of tennis, "The Fireside Book of Tennis",
American football , and "Oh, How They Played The Game" about the early days of football.He lived most of his adult life in Roslyn, N.Y. with his wife, two daughters, and one son.
He retired to
New Jersey , where he died on27 January 1987 .External links
* [http://www.squashtalk.com/html/columns/zug4.htm Allison Danzig tribute page]
* [http://www.tennisfame.com/famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=84 Hall of Famers]
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