{"id":1724,"date":"2012-12-06T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2018-10-11T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:38:29","slug":"marshall-benny-h-davis-1919-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"MARSHALL, BENNETT DAVIS, 1919-1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sportswriter. Born&#8211; November 6,\u00a01919, Vincent, Ala. Parents&#8211; Raymond and Nannie Davis. Married&#8211; Ruth Tucker. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Howard College (now Samford University).\u00a0\u00a0Sportswriter and columnist for <em>The Birmingham News <\/em>and the <em>Birmingham Age-Herald.<\/em>\u00a0 Honors&#8211; Alumnus of the Year for Journalism, Samford University, 1964; Alabama Sports Writer of the Year (11 times); Alabama Associated Press Sportworthy Award (11 times). Inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, 1982. Died September 25, 1969.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham News, Sept. 26, 1969; Alabama Sports Hall of Fame website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty Grand. Nashville; Parthenon Press, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Winning Isn&#8217;t Everything, But It Beats Anything That Comes in Second. Nashville; Parthenon Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All-Time Greatest Alabama Sports Stories:\u00a0 Benny Marshall and Friends.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Sportswriter. Born&#8211; November 6,\u00a01919, Vincent, Ala. Parents&#8211; Raymond and Nannie Davis. Married&#8211; Ruth Tucker. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Howard College (now Samford University).\u00a0\u00a0Sportswriter and columnist for The Birmingham News and the Birmingham Age-Herald.\u00a0 Honors&#8211; Alumnus of the Year for Journalism, Samford University, 1964; Alabama Sports Writer of the Year (11 times); Alabama Associated Press Sportworthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8931,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/8931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}