 Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on
June 5, 1895, sportswriting legend Stanley Woodward had a 43 year
career sportswriter and editor. His career began in 1920, when he
was hired by the Worcester
Evening Gazette as a reporter, before becoming editor in
1922. Then in 1923, Woodward moved to the Boston Herald, where he worked
first as a writer, then sports editor. He stayed at the Boston Herald until 1930 when he moved
to the New York Herald
Tribune, the paper his name would become synonymous with.
While at the Tribune,
Woodward worked in a number of roles including as a sportswriter
from 1930-1938, sports editor from 1938-1948, and a war
correspondent from 1944-1945. In 1948, he left the Tribune, before returning to be
sports editor from 1959-1962. During his time away from the Tribune, Woodard worked as a
sports writer at The New York
Daily Compass, and Newark
Star-Ledger and as editor of Sports Illustrated and The Miami Daily News. Woodward
died in 1966. He was inducted into the National Sportscasters and
Sportswriters Hall of Fame on March 27, 1974
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