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The Class of 1932
The 1932 Polaris
Another view of the cover.
John "Pat" Harmon, Marion Bernice McLenahan
Pat Harmon, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, started his illustrious writing career working on the 1932 Polaris as Editor of Boys' Athletics. He also wrote sports for the Freeport High School News. In the June 6, 1932, issue, he bequeathed his typing ability to Margaret Bingham, an editor of the FHS News from the Class of 1933. The Senior Class Prophecy predicted he'd be cubbing the baseball games for the Trib. The prophesy wasn't that far off.
He began covering sports at age 17 for the Journal Standard in the early 1930s. He would hitchhike to games, sleep on wrestling mats in gyms of teams he covered, and break into the food lines of teams.
Harmon became a student at the University of Illinois in 1934 and wrote for the Champaign News-Gazette. He met & married his wife Anne. He wrote for four years at the Cedar Rapids Gazette from 1947-51.
He moved to Cincinnati in 1951 and served as a sports editor and columnist for the Cincinnati Post for over 34 years. He wrote the book, Cincinnati’s Greatest Sports Stories. After retiring and traveling for a year, he became historian and curator of The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame in 1986, and continued to serve as historian.
During his career as a sports writer and editor, he interviewed Vince Lombardi, Pete Rose, Casey Stengel, Arnold Palmer, Eddie Robinson, John Wooden, Bear Bryant, Jack Nicklaus, Woody Hayes, Paul Brown, Joe Louis and many other sports greats.
The Football Writer’s Association of America awarded Harmon the 2004 Bert McGrane Award winner. The award honors an FWAA member who has performed great service to the organization and the game of college football.
Harmon's name is featured in two places at the College Football Hall of Fame as a winner of the NFF’s Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award and among the listing of previous McGrane Award recipients.
Pat & Anne are the parents of 11 children.