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EDGAR WILLIAMS

Lansdale HS, 1933
Sports Writer

Feature Writer and Reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The North Penn Reporter

Inducted 2005

Lansdale High School, 1933 (Deceased)

Edgar graduated from West Chester State Teachers College in 1938.  He coached 110 pound football at Charlotte Hall (MD) Military Academy in 1938-39.  From 1940-1970, he was a sports reporter and columnist for The North Penn Reporter.  In earlier years there, he by-lined his stories, “Ted Williams,” and was probably as well-known locally as the “other” Ted Williams, the Hall of Fame baseball player for the Boston Red Sox.  Edgar spent two years in the U.S. Army during World War II.  He began writing sports features for the Philadelphia Inquirer and its magazine in 1945, continuing until his retirement in 1989. From 1945-1970, he wrote for both papers. At least 75 of his articles were published in national magazines, including one on Bobby Shantz for The Saturday Evening Post that later appeared in the anthology Best Sports Stories of 1953.  He wrote two books on the Harlem Globetrotters with the late Dave Zinkoff, Go, Man, Go and Around the World with the Harlem Globetrotters.