Eddie Robinson: ...He Was the Martin Luther King of Football
Denny Dressman is the author of three previous books, including Yes I Can! Yes You Can! Tackle Diabetes and Win, the story of diabetic football star Jay Leeuwenburg; The Diabetes Antidote, a fitness advice book co-authored with Doug Burns, 2006 winner of the Natural Mr. Universe title, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of seven; and Gerry Faust: Notre Dame's Man in Motion. He is a past winner of the Ohio Associated Press Sports Editors' award for Best Sports Column as well as numerous other writing awards, and is a past recipient of the College Football Foundation's Contribution to Amateur Football award. He served as president of the Denver Press Club in 1986, and was president of the Colorado Press Association in 1993. He is a 2008 inductee into the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame. He concluded a forty-three-year newspaper career in 2007.