Former longtime newspaper editor Irwin Smallwood, a North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame member who covered the founding of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953, has died.
The News and Record of Greensboro reported Smallwood died Saturday, March 9, at age 98.
Smallwood had a 42-year journalism career before retiring in 1989, starting at the then-Greensboro Daily News as a 16-year-old copy boy. He later became a reporter, sports editor and managing editor at the newspaper.
