Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award
Encyclopedia
The Elmer Ferguson
Memorial Award is an award
given "in recognition of distinguished members of the newspaper
profession whose words have brought honour to journalism
and to hockey
". Recipients are selected by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association
and gain automatic entrance into the Hockey Hall of Fame
.
Elmer Ferguson
Elmer Ferguson was a Canadian sports journalist. Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Ferguson moved to Montreal in 1910 and became the sports editor of the Montreal Herald in 1913. Ferguson was one of the most respected and promiant columnists of his time...
Memorial Award is an award
Award
An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...
given "in recognition of distinguished members of the newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
profession whose words have brought honour to journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
and to hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
". Recipients are selected by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association
Professional Hockey Writers' Association
The Professional Hockey Writers' Association is a North American professional association for ice hockey journalists writing for newspapers, magazines and websites...
and gain automatic entrance into the Hockey Hall of Fame
Hockey Hall of Fame
The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a hall of fame. It holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup...
.
List of recipients
| Year | Recipient | Publication(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Jacques Beauchamp | Montréal-Matin Montréal-Matin Montréal-Matin was a Quebec daily newspaper based in Montreal. It was published from 1930 to 1978. It was politically associated to the Conservative Party of Quebec and, afterwards, its successor the Union Nationale... /Le Journal de Montréal Le Journal de Montréal Le Journal de Montréal is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is the largest-circulation French-language newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by the Sun Media division of Quebecor Media. It is also Canada's largest tabloid... |
| 1984 | Jim Burchard | New York World Telegram |
| 1984 | Red Burnett | Toronto Star Toronto Star The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario... |
| 1984 | Dink Carroll | Montréal Gazette The Gazette (Montreal) The Gazette, often called the Montreal Gazette to avoid ambiguity, is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with three other daily English newspapers all having shut down at different times during the second half of the 20th century.-History:In 1778,... |
| 1984 | Jim Coleman | Southam Newspapers Canwest News Service Postmedia News is a national news agency with correspondents in Canada, Europe, and the United States and is part of the Canadian newspaper chain owned by Postmedia Network Inc.-History:... |
| 1984 | Ted Damata | Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is... |
| 1984 | Marcel Desjardins | La Presse La Presse (Canada) La Presse, founded in 1884, is a French-language Monday-Saturday newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned today by Groupe Gesca, a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada. The Sunday version was dropped in 2009.-Description:... |
| 1984 | Jack Dulmage | Windsor Star Windsor Star The Windsor Star is the regional newspaper of Windsor, Ontario , and is owned by the Postmedia Network Inc. Since 1923, the publication's main office is located at 167 Ferry Street in the downtown area... |
| 1984 | Milt Dunnell Milt Dunnell Milt Dunnell was a Canadian sportswriter, known chiefly for his work at the Toronto Star.Born in St. Marys, Ontario, Dunnell entered journalism with the Stratford Beacon Herald in the 1920s, later becoming the sports editor. He joined the Star as a sportswriter in 1942, becoming sports editor in... |
Toronto Star |
| 1984 | Elmer Ferguson Elmer Ferguson Elmer Ferguson was a Canadian sports journalist. Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Ferguson moved to Montreal in 1910 and became the sports editor of the Montreal Herald in 1913. Ferguson was one of the most respected and promiant columnists of his time... |
Montréal Herald/Montréal Star Montreal Star The Montreal Star was an English-language Canadian newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It folded in 1979 following an eight-month pressmen's strike.... |
| 1984 | Tom Fitzgerald | The Boston Globe The Boston Globe The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993... |
| 1984 | Trent Frayne Trent Frayne Trent Gardiner Frayne is a retired Canadian sportswriter whose career stretched over 60 years."Billy" Frayne, as he was known as a youth, was born to father Homer, who was a railroader for the Canadian Pacific Railway and mother Ella... |
Toronto Telegram Toronto Telegram The Toronto Evening Telegram was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at both the federal and provincial level. The paper competed with the liberal Toronto Star... /The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star... /Sun Toronto Sun The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative editorial stance.-History:... |
| 1984 | Al Laney | New York Herald Tribune New York Herald Tribune The New York Herald Tribune was a daily newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald.Other predecessors, which had earlier merged into the New York Tribune, included the original The New Yorker newsweekly , and the Whig Party's Log Cabin.The paper was home to... |
| 1984 | Joe Nichols | The New York Times The New York Times The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization... |
| 1984 | Basil O'Meara | Montréal Star Montreal Star The Montreal Star was an English-language Canadian newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It folded in 1979 following an eight-month pressmen's strike.... |
| 1984 | Jim Vipond | Toronto Globe and Mail |
| 1984 | Lewis Walter | Detroit Times Detroit Times - Overview :The first iteration of the Detroit Times was an antislavery bulletin only printed from May - November, 1842 by Warren Isham.The second iteration began in November 1854. Published by G.S. Conklin and E.T. Sherlock, with John N. Ingersoll as editor... |
| 1985 | Charlie Barton | Buffalo Courier-Express Buffalo Courier-Express The Buffalo Courier-Express was a morning newspaper in Buffalo, New York. It ceased publication on September 1982.The Courier-Express was created in 1926 by a merger of the Buffalo Daily Courier and the Buffalo Morning Express. William James Conners, owner of the Buffalo Courier, brought the two... |
| 1985 | Red Fisher Red Fisher (journalist) Red Fisher is a Canadian sports journalist whose columns focus on the National Hockey League and its Montreal Canadiens team.... |
Montréal Star/Gazette |
| 1985 | George Gross | Toronto Telegram/Sun |
| 1985 | Zotique L'Esperance | Le Journal de Montréal/La Petit Journal |
| 1985 | Charles Mayer | Le Journal de Montréal/La Patrie La Patrie La Patrie was a Montreal, Quebec daily newspaper founded by Honoré Beaugrand on February 24, 1879. It became a weekly in 1957 and folded in 1978.... |
| 1985 | Andy O'Brien | Weekend Magazine |
| 1986 | Dick Johnston | The Buffalo News The Buffalo News The Buffalo News is the primary newspaper of the Buffalo – Niagara Falls metropolitan area, and the area's only daily newspaper. It is the only newspaper owned by Berkshire Hathaway.-History:... |
| 1986 | Leo Monahan | Boston Daily Record/Record-American/Boston Herald American Boston Herald The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States... |
| 1986 | Tim Moriarty | UPI United Press International United Press International is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century... /Newsday Newsday Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area... |
| 1987 | Bill Brennan | The Detroit News The Detroit News The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Free Press's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960,... |
| 1987 | Rex MacLeod | Toronto Globe and Mail/Star |
| 1987 | Ben Olan | New York Associated Press |
| 1987 | Fran Rosa | Boston Globe |
| 1988 | Jim Proudfoot | Toronto Star |
| 1988 | Scott Young | Toronto Globe and Mail/Telegram |
| 1989 | Claude Larochelle | Le Soleil Le Soleil Le Soleil is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec. It was founded on December 28, 1896 and is published in compact format since April 2006... |
| 1989 | Frank Orr | Toronto Star |
| 1990 | Bertrand Raymond | Le Journal de Montréal |
| 1991 | Hugh Delano | New York Post New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions... |
| 1993 | Al Strachan | Globe and Mail/Toronto Sun |
| 1995 | Jack Gatecliff | St. Catharines Standard St. Catharines Standard The St. Catharines Standard is the prominent daily newspaper of the city of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.-History:The St. Catharines Standard was started in 1891, by W. B. Burgoyne. The Standard, located in St. Catharines, Ontario, is the largest daily newspaper in Niagara Region... |
| 1997 | Ken McKenzie Ken McKenzie Ken McKenzie was a journalist, and the co-founder and longtime president and publisher of The Hockey News magazine... |
The Hockey News The Hockey News The Hockey News, commonly abbreviated to THN, is a North American ice hockey magazine published by Transcontinental. The Hockey News was founded in 1947 by Ken McKenzie and Bill Côté, and has since been the most recognized hockey publication in North America... |
| 1998 | Yvon Pedneault Yvon Pedneault Yvon Pedneault is a French Canadian sports journalist and television and radio broadcaster from Chicoutimi, Quebec who is known for his coverage of ice hockey. Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three French-language Montreal daily papers, as well as every French-language... |
La Presse/Le Journal de Montréal |
| 1999 | Russ Conway | The Eagle-Tribune |
| 2000 | Jim Matheson | Edmonton Journal Edmonton Journal The Edmonton Journal is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the Postmedia Network.-History:The Journal was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old... |
| 2001 | Eric Duhatschek Eric Duhatschek Eric Duhatschek is a distinguished Canadian sports journalist. Duhatschek won the 2001 Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for distinguished ice hockey journalism and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, for which he is also on the selection committee.... |
Calgary Herald Calgary Herald The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in the Canadian city of Calgary, Alberta.- History :The paper was first published on August 31, 1883 by Andrew Armour and Thomas Braden as The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser. It started as a weekly paper with only... |
| 2002 | Kevin Dupont | Boston Globe |
| 2003 | Michael Farber | Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the... |
| 2004 | Jim Kelley Jim Kelley James Thomas "Jim" Kelley, Jr. was a professional sports news columnist whose 30-year career focused primarily on the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League, and the greater Buffalo area... |
The Buffalo News The Buffalo News The Buffalo News is the primary newspaper of the Buffalo – Niagara Falls metropolitan area, and the area's only daily newspaper. It is the only newspaper owned by Berkshire Hathaway.-History:... |
| 2005 | Helene Elliott Helene Elliott Helene Elliott is an American sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times who is a general sports columnist. She is the first female journalist to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, receiving the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for bringing "honor to journalism and to hockey" in 2005.One of the... |
Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country.... |
| 2006 | Scott Morrison | Toronto Sun |
| 2007 | Dave Fay | Washington Times |
| 2008 | Neil Stevens Neil Stevens Neil Stevens is a Canadian sportswriter who has covered numerous sports, including ice hockey, indoor lacrosse, the Olympic Games, and figure skating. He received his first newspaper job in 1970, having previously played lacrosse, and in 1974 began working for the Canadian Press... |
Canadian Press Canadian Press Canadian Press Enterprises Inc. is the entity which "will take over the operations of the Canadian Press" according to a November 26, 2010 article in the Toronto Star... |
| 2009 | Dave Molinari Dave Molinari Dave Molinari is an American sports journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Molinari attended Elizabeth Forward High School and Penn State... |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG," is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.-Early history:... |
| 2010 | Marc de Foy | Le Journal de Montréal Le Journal de Montréal Le Journal de Montréal is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is the largest-circulation French-language newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by the Sun Media division of Quebecor Media. It is also Canada's largest tabloid... / RueFrontenac.com |
| 2011 | Terry Jones | Edmonton Sun Edmonton Sun The Edmonton Sun is a daily newspaper published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a division of Sun Media, a Quebecor company.It began publishing in 1978 and shares many characteristics typical of Sun Media tabloids, including an emphasis on local news stories, its conservative editorial stance,... http://www.lfpress.com/sports/hockey/2011/06/02/18229611.html |