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- فرد راسيل (بالإنجليزية: Fred Russell) هو كاتب أمريكي، ولد في 27 أغسطس 1906، وتوفي في 26 يناير 2003. (ar)
- Fred Russell (August 27, 1906 – January 26, 2003) was an American sportswriter from Tennessee who served as sports editor for the Nashville Banner for 68 years (1930–1998). Beginning in the 1960s he served for nearly three decades as chairman of the Honors Court of the College Football Hall of Fame, a group responsible for selecting College Football Hall of Fame members. He was a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. Russell's sports column, "Sideline Sidelights" along with his cadre of reporters, was in a fierce rivalry with Nashville's better-funded paper, The Tennessean, for decades until the Banner closed in 1998. He was a long-time friend and protégé of fellow sportswriter and Vanderbilt alumnus Grantland Rice. Vanderbilt established the "Fred Russell–Grantland Rice Sportswriting Scholarship" in their honor. For over fifty years, the scholarship has attracted some of the nation's top journalistic talent to Vanderbilt. Russell was known for his sense of humor and story-telling ability. He authored several books about sports and sports humor. As a young reporter he interviewed Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Lou Gehrig. Outliving most of his contemporaries, he counted as friends many sports greats of the twentieth century including Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Red Grange, Sparky Anderson, Bobby Knight, Bear Bryant, Archie Manning and George Steinbrenner. He was a member of the Heisman Trophy Committee and president of the Football Writers Association of America. Russell's active sportswriting career spanned 70 years during which he wrote over 12,000 columns. He died in 2003 at age 96. (en)
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