William Morgan Blake (February, 1889 – July 26, 1953) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter in the South who in his 24 years on the job covered seven Rose Bowl games.
[1][2] A law graduate and member of Phi Kappa Psi from Vanderbilt University in 1911, he began newspaper work on the Nashville Tennessean.
He then switched to the Nashville Banner as a political writer, until eventually becoming a sports editor of the Atlanta Journal in 1916.
[1] Blake ranked Don Hutson led Alabama as the best football team he ever saw.
He is one proposed originator of the "Golden Tornado" nickname for Georgia Tech.