Dink Carroll | |
Birth Name: | Austin Carroll |
Birth Date: | 12 November 1899 |
Birth Place: | Guelph, Ontario |
Death Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
Occupation: | journalist |
Employer: | Montreal Gazette |
Awards: | Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award (1984) Jack Graney Award (1990) |
Years Active: | 19??–1987 |
Alma Mater: | McGill University |
Austin "Dink" Carroll (November 12, 1899 - April 8, 1991) was a Canadian sports journalist. A columnist for the Montréal Gazette, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He also won the Jack Graney Award in 1990 from the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1986).[1] [2] [3] Carroll attended McGill University, where he played on the football team. He earned a LL.B. degree from there in 1923, but never practiced law.[4] He wrote a column for the Gazette from 1941 to 1987.