Dink Carroll, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dink Carroll

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1899

Place of Birth: Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 08-Apr-1991

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Austin "Dink" Carroll (November 12, 1899 – April 8, 1991) was a Canadian sports journalist.
A columnist for the Montréal Gazette, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
He also won the Jack Graney Award in 1990 from the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1986).
Carroll attended McGill University, where he played on the football team.
He earned a LL.B.
degree from there in 1923, but never practiced law.
He wrote a column for the Gazette from 1941 to 1987.