JPerian Conerly, who dazzled with her warmth, looks and words, dies at 94īy Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today June 19, 2021Ĭouples Ethyl and Robert Kennedy (left) and Perian and Charlie Conerly (right) at Charlie's induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in New York in 1966. Perian Conerly, who dazzled with her warmth, looks and words, dies at 94 If you have any other questions, contact Audience Development Director Lauchlin Fields.
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“Heavens no,” she answered once when asked her if she had ever considered entering a post-game locker room. I mean, back then it was just unheard of.”Īll that happened decades before the controversy of women writers being barred from - or allowed into - the supposed sanctity of men’s locker rooms. Perian once told me she thought many of the newspaper editors “were intrigued by the idea of a woman sports writer. The New York Times was among the subscribers. The North American Newspaper Alliance learned of the column and sought to publish on a much wider scale. The column was instantly a hit, so she approached The Clarion Ledger about also publishing the column. After marriage, Perian approached the editor of the Clarksdale paper with the idea of writing a weekly column about life in New York during the football season. She had been the editor of her college newspaper, “The Spectator,” at what is now Mississippi University for Women. And she had great sources, people named Gifford, Rote, Summerall and Chunkin’ Charlie Conerly. She wrote cleverly in terms even a novice fan could easily digest. She took a complicated sport and broke it down in the simplest of terms. In her columns and her book, she wrote intelligently and with much wit. And he had lean, low-slung lines peculiar to athletes and Cadillacs. Perian was writing about meeting Charlie at a swimming pool in 1947: “I was immediately taken with his dark good looks and engaging shyness. Consider this paragraph from her book “Backseat Quarterback” first published by Doubleday in 1963. “I don’t know her, but I do know her daddy, Dan Jenkins,” Perian said. Back in 2001, long after Perian had ceased writing, I called to tell her that Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post had been judged the best sports columnist in American newspapers.
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