Herm Reitzes

Herman Reitzes (1903 – June 12, 1987) was an American sportscaster. He was a radio announcer at WDEL from the 1920s to the 1950s and was the play-by-play commentator for the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football, Wilmington Blue Rocks, and Wilmington Clippers. He was posthumously inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 1990. Biography

Reitzes was born in 1903 in New York. He was Jewish. He grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Wilmington High School. Afterwards Reitzes played freshman and sophomore college football at Delaware College (now known as the University of Delaware).

In 1922, Reitzes was hired by WDEL radio station. He later became the play-by-play announcer for the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team, for which he was best known. Reitzes was the first recipient.

Reitzes died on June 12, 1987, in Tilton Terrace, Delaware, from heart failure. He was 84 at the time of his death. He was posthumously inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 1990.