Jack Roberts Dulmage (1918 or 1919 – August 2, 1998) was a Canadian sports journalist for the ''

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''. He was awarded the

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in 1984.

Career

A veteran of

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in the

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, Dulmage began his sports writing career with the ''

'' in 1945 and became sports editor and a columnist in 1959. He retired in 1982. Dulmage was also a founding member and secretary-treasurer of the National Hockey League Writers' Association and a member of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. He died of complications from

multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease resulting in damage to myelinthe insulating covers of nerve cellsin the brain and spinal cord. As a demyelinating disease, MS disrupts the nervous system's ability to Action potential, transmit ...

in 1998, aged 79.

References

Canadian sports journalists 1910s births 1998 deaths {{Canada-journalist-stub