Bill McGrotha (1980) - Florida State Athletics Hall of Fame

Bill McGrotha

Induction:
1980

From 1952 until his death in 1993, Tallahassee Democrat readers and sports fans throughout the South looked forward to reading Bill McGrotha's sports columns.

McGrotha was uniquely qualified to chronicle FSU's growth and rise to national prominence, which he did for 40 years in the Democrat and in his book Seminoles! The First Forty Years.

He won Associated Press national awards in 1980 for features and 1984 for columns and was a past-president of the Football Writers Association.

He was described in the Democrat's three-page eulogy as a "meticulous reporter, a talented wordsmith and an unwaveringly genuine man."

In 1997, Florida State named the football press area in his honor.