Dent McSkimming

Who was Dent McSkimming?

Florence Dent Archibald McSkimming was an American sportswriter for several St. Louis newspapers. He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1951.

McSkimming was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and began his sportswriting career at the St. Louis Star in 1913 and switched to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1922, where he worked until his retirement in 1961. He worked for a third St. Louis newspaper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as a police reporter.

During World War I, Dent McSkimming served as a pharmacist's mate on a Navy gunboat. In 1931, he worked at an English-language newspaper in Mexico City. McSkimming attended Stanford University for one year. During World War II, he served as a Red Cross field representative in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone.