Jim Proudfoot

James Alan Proudfoot (1933 – April 1, 2001) was a Canadian sports journalist. He spent his entire 49-year career with the Toronto Star, and served as the newspaper's sports editor. His columns regularly covered ice hockey, horse racing, figure skating and Canadian football. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and the Skate Canada Hall of Fame, and received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Early life James Alan Proudfoot was born in 1933, in Kearney, Ontario. His early education was in a two-room schoolhouse in Kearney, with his father James as the teacher. He went on to work 49 years for the newspaper, and succeeded Milt Dunnell as its sports editor.

According to Dunnell, Proudfoot was a lifetime hitchhiker, and would get rides from others to and from sporting events. He reportedly "would bark at editors handling his stories", and "eventually make you feel like crawling under your chair", according to Rubin.

Proudfoot received the Skate Canada Award of Merit in 1974, and the National Newspaper Award in 1988. He was inducted as a reporter into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1992, and received the lifetime achievement award from Sports Media Canada in 1998. He was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Skate Canada Hall of Fame in 2008.