United Press International Athlete of the Year Award ended in 1996.
United Press International Athlete of the Year Award was created in 1974.
United Press International was created in 1958.
The U.S women's soccer team
It was the entire U.S. women's soccer team.
The organization organized as a press association in 1907 by E.W. Scripps was United Press. It later merged with International News Service in 1958 to form United Press International (UPI).
Associated Press Athlete of the Year was created in 1931.
The first athlete to appear on Meet The Press was Jackie Robinson on April 14, 1967.
International Tennis Hall of Fame National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame International Women's Sports Hall of Fame New Jersey Sports Hall of Fame Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame International Scholar-Athletes Hall of Fame Black Athletes Hall of Fame South Carolina Hall of Fame Florida Sports Hall of Fame Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year (1957-1958) First Ladies Salute First Women Award Who's Who in American Women Babe Zaharias Outstanding Women Athlete of the Year NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award Sports Illustrated Top 100 Greatest Female Athletes Florida A&M Athlete of the Century Florida Women's Hall of Fame
The last Eagle to win an MVP award was Randall Cunningham who was voted MVP by the Pro Football Writers Association in 1990.Prior to Cunningham, Norm Van Brocklin was voted MVP by the Associated Press, United Press International, Newspaper Enterprise Association, and Sporting News in 1960.
International Press Institute was created in 1950.
Rudolph was United Press Athlete of the Year 1960 and Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year for 1960 and 1961. Also in 1961, the year of her father's death, Rudolph won the James E. Sullivan Award, an award for the top amateur athlete in the United States, and visited President John F. Kennedy She was voted into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1973 and the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1974. She was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, honored with the National Sports Award in 1993, and inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994 In 1994, the portion of U. S. Route 79 in Clarksville, Tennessee between the Interstate 24 exit 4 in Clarksville to the Red River (Lynnwood-Tarpley) bridge near the Kraft Street intersection was renamed to honor Wilma Rudolph.
International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes was created in 2000.