Dan Scism Scholarship Award

Dan Scism joined the Evansville Courier in 1923 as a police reporter and became sports editor in 1925, serving in that capacity until his retirement in 1967. A native of Bloomfield, Missouri, Scism’s newspaper career brought him into contact with some of the nation’s leading writers, including Grantland Rice, Damon Runyon and Red Smith. Scism covered such  famous sports figures as golfers Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, boxers Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, baseball players Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and football’s Red Grange. He also covered such events as the World Series, Kentucky Derby, the Olympics and the Masters. He started the Evansville City Golf Tournament, the Evansville Golden Gloves program and a baseball league. He also bred, raised and raced thoroughbred horses. Scism, who served as the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscaster Association (ISSA) president and received the association’s Joe Boland Award for service to youth. He was named a Silver Medal Award recipient by the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and was included with the inaugural class in the ISSA’s Hall of Fame in 1996. He is also a member of the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. Bio courtesy of ISSA’s website.