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Marion Roscoe Dunn was a longtime sportswriter for Utah newspapers, the Deseret News, The Salt Lake Telegram, and The Salt Lake Tribune. He became the sports editor for the Provo Daily Herald in 1976. He also worked for a time with the United Press in San Francisco. Dunn earned a degree in journalism from the University of Utah.

He was president of the National Football Writers Association of America and the Old Time Athletes Association. He earned his post as president of the National Football Writers Association of America through his work on the press box committee, which has been credited since the founding of the FWAA in 1941 with improving working conditions of the reporters covering football.

Dunn was inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. He won national writing awards in golf, bowling and basketball.

He was born on November 20, 1922, in Colorado and moved to Bingham Canyon with his family when he was two years old. He was a Bingham High pitcher on the 1940 state championship team at about the same time he signed on as a Tribune correspondent to report local events, such as election returns.

While serving in the Army in New Guinea during World War II, he was a reporter and editor for an Army newspaper. He was stationed in New Guinea for two years and the Philippines for one year.

Dunn died on September 21, 2004.