Dave Campbell: 1925-2021 — Legendary sportswriter, magazine founder dies

Dave Campbell, the pioneering sports journalist who transformed media coverage of football in Texas, died Friday at his home in Waco. He was 96.

Campbell is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of the eponymous Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine — affectionally called “the bible of Texas football” by readers — though his accomplishments stretch far beyond. Campbell was a former president of the Football Writers Association of America — from which he was awarded the Bert McGrane Award — the longtime Southwest sectional representative for the Heisman Trophy committee, an inductee into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, the longtime sports editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, and so on.