Everything about Allison Danzig totally explained
Allison Danzig (
27 February,
1898-
1987) was an American sportswriter who specialized in writing about
tennis 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 the
French Open — as well as many others. Danzig was later inducted into the
International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI becoming the first journalist in the Hall. In an interview shortly before his death, he named
Bill Tilden as the greatest player he'd covered.
Danzig was born in 1898 in
Waco, Texas, but grew up in
Albany, 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 with
E.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 the
Brooklyn 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 in
1987.
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