The life and accomplishments of Marty Glickman '39 were recently celebrated with a special program at SU's Lubin House in New York City. The panel included (left to right) Larry Kimball, Stan Isaacs, Len Berman and Ian Eagle.
SU's Lubin House Celebrates Life and Accomplishments of Marty Glickman '39
6/25/2005 10:21:11 AM | Football, Track and Field
The Syracuse University Lubin House Alumni Resource Center recently honored former SU student-athlete Marty Glickman. SU Sports Information Director Emeritus Lawrence Kimball led a panel of two Syracuse alumni and an author to discuss “The Life and Accomplishments of Marty Glickman.” The group included Len Berman '68, '70, Ian Eagle '90, and author Stan Isaacs.
Glickman was a track and football star at Syracuse University before graduating in 1939. He earned a spot on the 1936 Olympic track team after winning numerous major track meets. He played professionally for the Jersey City Giants of the American Association, where he was the led the league in rushing. He also was a member of the Syracuse Seniors barnstorming basketball team.
Glickman, known best for his work on radio and television, became the first former athlete to carve out a career as a sports broadcaster. After graduating from Syracuse, he joined radio station WHN and by 1943 was named sports director. Glickman became the original radio voice of Madison Square Garden college basketball in December of 1945 and one year later was named play-by-play announcer for the newly formed New York Knickerbockers. He was also the NBA’s first announcer for TV. During his illustrious career, Glickman served as the voice of the football Giants, Jets, Knicks, Yonkers Raceway and did pre- and postgame shows for the Dodgers and Yankees. He also broadcast track meets, wrestling matches, roller derbies and rodeos, even marble shooting championships, for four years on WRCA-TV.In addition, NBC employed Glickman as a critic and teacher of its sports announcers. In 1988, WCBS hired his for his second tour as the Jets’ play-by-play announcer on radio. It was from that position that Glickman quietly said goodbye to his last audience in December 1992, at age 74.
Glickman is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, the Sportscaster Hall of Fame and the New York Sports Hall of Fame. In 1990, Syracuse University, the Newhouse School and the SU New house School Alumni Association established the Marty Glickman Endowment Scholarship Fund in his honor. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie, four children and their families.
Kimball served as the University's Sports Information Director from 1966 to 1997.
Berman graduated form Syracuse in 1968 and earned his masters degree in 1970. Berman is the weekday sports anchor for NBC 4’s five, six and 11 p.m. newscasts. He has hosted many live sports special featuring the New York Giants, Mets, Yankees and Knicks, the Belmont Stakes, U.S. Open Golf and the New York City Marathon. Berman has handled sports reporting for Olympic Games in Athens, Salt Lake City, Sydney and Atlanta. He has been voted “Sportsman of the Year” six times and has been the recipient of six local Emmy awards.
Eagle, a 1990 graduate of Syracuse, has been play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports’ NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship coverage for the past eight years. Since 1998, he has called play-by-play for the NFL on CBS. In addition, he has been play-by-play announcer for the New Jersey Nets television broadcast since 1995 and was the play-by-play radio voice of the New York Jets in 1997. While at SU, Eagle was the play-by-play voice of the Orange in football, basketball and lacrosse. Eagle was awarded the Bob Costas Award for Outstanding Sportscasting and won a 2002 New York Sports Emmy Award.
Isaacs collaborated with Glickman on the Glickman autobiography, “The Fastest Kid on the Block”. He also served at Newsday for 40 years as a sports and feature columnist and sports editor.
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