Template:Did you know nominations/Jimmy Dunn (sports executive)
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:04, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
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Jimmy Dunn (sports executive)
- ... that The Winnipeg Tribune credited sports executive Jimmy Dunn for "seeing the job is done right", and that his leadership assured the success of any sport organization? [1]
- ALT1:... that The Winnipeg Tribune described Jimmy Dunn by writing, "if he had a dime for every football and hockey game he has timed in the past 40 years he could buy the Arena"? [2]
- ALT2:... that Jimmy Dunn was the original timekeeper of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1930, and never missed a home game until he retired before the 1972 season? [3]
- ALT3:... that in 1950, Jimmy Dunn said "the Mandak baseball league this year will be more colourful than a Scotman's kilt"? [4]
- ALT4:... that Jimmy Dunn felt that ice hockey spectators wanted to see overtime "to get their money's worth"? [5]
- ALT5:... that Jimmy Dunn experimented with coloured pucks in minor ice hockey? [6][7]
- ALT6:... that Jimmy Dunn once had the door of his office torn off in a rush to buy ice hockey tickets? [8]
- ALT7:... that Jimmy Dunn was wounded serving in World War I and earned a military medal which he would not talk about? [9]
- Reviewed: Kawasaki Route
5x expanded by Flibirigit (talk). Self-nominated at 16:05, 25 June 2021 (UTC).