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

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.