Florence Dent Archibald McSkimming (October 17, 1896 – July 13, 1976) was an American sportswriter for several St. Louis newspapers.
He was named after Dent H. Robert and Florence D. White with whom his father worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.
During World War II, he served as a Red Cross field representative in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone.
[1] McSkimming was the only American journalist at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, though he paid his own way to the event when his employer decided not to send him to cover it.
[2] He witnessed the United States' historic upset of England at that tournament describing it as "if Oxford University sent a baseball team over here and it beat the Yankees.