Dent McSkimming, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dent McSkimming

American sportswriter

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1896

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1976

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About 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 to George Francis and Mary Teresa McCann McSkimming.
  • He was named after Dent H.
  • Robert and Florence D.
  • White with whom his father worked at the St.
  • Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.
  • He 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.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.

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