Smith Barrier
Journalism
Inducted: 1980
- Native of Concord, NC
- Graduate of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Sportswriter and editor for Greensboro Daily News and Greensboro Daily Record (now Greensboro News and Record) from 1941 until 1980
- Served as President of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and Atlantic Coast Sportswriters Association
- Author of several books on North Carolina sports history
- Member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame
- Died in 1989 at the age of 72
