Dink Carroll

Austin "Dink" Carroll (November 12, 1899 – April 8, 1991) was a Canadian sports journalist. A columnist for the "Montréal Gazette", he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He also won the Jack Graney Award in 1990 from the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1986). Carroll attended McGill University, where he played on the football team. He earned a LL.B. degree from there in 1923, but never practiced law. He wrote a column for the "Gazette" from 1941 to 1987.