Biography:

Sportswriter. Born– November 6, 1919, Vincent, Ala. Parents– Raymond and Nannie Davis. Married– Ruth Tucker. Children– Four. Education– Howard College (now Samford University).  Sportswriter and columnist for The Birmingham News and the Birmingham Age-Herald.  Honors– 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.

Source:

Birmingham News, Sept. 26, 1969; Alabama Sports Hall of Fame website.

Publication(s):

Twenty Grand. Nashville; Parthenon Press, 1968.

Winning Isn’t Everything, But It Beats Anything That Comes in Second. Nashville; Parthenon Press, 1965.

Joint_Publication;

All-Time Greatest Alabama Sports Stories:  Benny Marshall and Friends.  University of Alabama Press, 2003.