Atlanta Daily World

Dr. Pres. W. A. Fountain of Morris Brown College for his contribution to Atlanta and Southern intercollegiate athletics in erecting Herndon Stadium.

(2) Cleve Abbott, Tuskegee Institute, for pioneering in the field of intercollegiate athletics and developing nationally-famous and internationally-acclaimed women's track and field teams.

(3) W. A. Munford of Southern University for his peerless National Championship Southern Jaguar Cats football team.

Coach Jake Gaither for keeping the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference one of the top organized bodies in the U.S.A. in developing SIAC Championship teams and All-American players in football, basketball and track.

(5) Alice Coachman of Albany State College, the only USA woman winner at the 14th Olympiad in London, England. The high jump star is unquestionably America's woman athlete of the year.

(6) Mel Patton, Harrison Dillard, Barney Ewell, Willie Steele, Bob Mathias and members of the U. S. Olympic team, who blazed to victory in the fastest assault upon time in the history of the world at the 14th Olympiad.

(7) Richard (Dick) Craig for developing Georgia's No. 1 football team and amassing the best record of any coach in the state during the past 2 years at Fort Valley State College. The Wildcats were undefeated during '47 and suffered a lone defeat in '48.

Coach Franklyn L. Forbes of Morehouse College because of the greatest gentleman in the world of athletics. His studious and marked discipline, sportsmanship, and high character has won him respect as a coach and official.

(9) Colle J. Nicholson, as one of the best sports public relations men in the business. Ditto to Capt. R. S. Darby, Tuskegee, and "Slim" Reynolds of Alabama State.

(10) Marion S. Curry of Clark College, one of the best sophomore coaches in the business, for copping the city championship two years in a row, and getting the best possible results out of limited material.

Mr. Lucius Bacote, for reviving interest in tennis, and arranging several exhibitions to publicize the sport in Atlanta.

(12) L. C. Baker, for prep championships in track and football at Washington High. Ditto T. Herman Graves at Howard High.

(13) Alfred Priestly of Xavier U. for returning the Gold Rush to the pinnacle of Southern trackdom.

(14) Marion Motley of the Cleveland Browns who is the world's greatest fullback.

(15) Bill Veeck, Cleveland Indians and Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers for advancing Negroes into the world's greatest pastime on ability rather than race.