Murray Olderman
Murray Olderman (MSJ47) was inducted into the Medill Hall of Achievement in 2014.
Olderman has profiled and drawn sports cartoons of every major
One of the leading national authorities on pro football, Olderman is past president of the Football Writers Association of America and the founder of the Jim Thorpe Trophy (for the NFL's most valuable player) and the Maurice Podoloff Trophy (for the NBA's MVP). His football murals hang in the Pro Football Hall of Fame at Canton, Ohio. He was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and is in the writers’ wing of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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