Rip Van Winkle Award Winner List
(Award discontinued in 2007)

2007 - Reg Pearson, Virginia City, NV
2006 - Albert Matzelle, Bayside, WI
2005 - Connie Marchione, Panorama City, CA
2004 - Dick Ritger, River Falls, WI
2003 - Glenn Allison, Los Angeles, CA
2002 - Gordon Vadakin, Wichita, KS
2001 - Sam Baca, Stockton, CA
2000 - Jack Biondolillo, Houston, TX
1999 - Walt Steinsiek, Mico, FL
1998 - Don McCune, Munster, IN
1997 - Tom Kouros, Palatine, IL
1996 - Chief Halftown, Philadelphia, PA
1995 - Jeannette Robinson, Las Vegas, NV
1994 - Bill Taylor, San Gabriel, CA
1993 - Angelo Biondo, Chicago, IL
1992 - Wayne Todd, Aurora, CO
1991 - Pepper Martin, San Antonio, TX
1990 - Seymour (Sandy) Shub, Chicago, IL
1989 - George Amato, Eugene, OR
1988 - Don Snyder, Los Angeles, CA
1987 - Bill Franklin, Marina Del Rey, CA
1986 - Woody Woodruff, Westbury, NY
1985 - Greg Griffo, Syracuse, NY
1984 - George Billick, Old Forge, PA
1983 - John Gavie, Detroit, MI
1982 - Eddie Edgar, Detroit, MI
1981 - Gus Lombardi, New York, NY
1980 - Joe Wilson, Chicago, IL
1979 - Chuck Pezzano, Clifton, NJ
1978 - Arthur Enberg, Minneapolis, MN
1977 - Charles Mitchell, Akron, OH
1976 - Dick Watson, Los Angeles, CA
1975 - Paul Marian, Chicago, IL
1974 - Cecil Ward, Detroit, MI
1970 - Paul Cito, Detroit, MI
1969 - Elmer Irwin, San Francisco, CA
1968 - Jerome Harris, St. Louis, MO
           Eli Maricich, Matteson, IL
1967 - J.B. Coker, San Diego, CA
          Arthur Johnson, Milwaukee, WI
          Bill McDonald, New York, NY
1966 - Peter Revelt, Detroit, MI 
          Ben Sands, Cleveland, OH
1965 - Lester Boston, Tulsa, OK
         John Canelli, Toledo, OH
         Ossie (Rags) Ragogna, St. Paul, MN
1964 - Warren Sloan, Blackwood, NJ 
          Dennis Sweeney, St. Louis, MO
          Sam Weinstein, Chicago, IL
1963 - Wilfred Albert, St. Petersburg, FL 
          Fred Lipovetz, LaCrosse, WI
          George Obenauer, Buffalo, NY 
          Milton Raymer, Chicago, IL
          William Landgraf, Island Park, NY
1962 - Walt Ditzen, Phoenix, AZ 
         John O. Martino, Syracuse, NY
         Jim Tinney, Chicago, IL
         Harold Lloyd, Los Angeles, CA
1960 - Joe Fliger, Chicago, IL
         Frank (Bud) Wight, Chicago, IL
         Emory Krauthoefer, Milwaukee, WI 
         William Mattison, Toledo, OH
1959 - Allie Brandt, Lockport, NY 
         Joe McCord, Santa Monica, CA
         Rudy Matak, St. Paul, MN
         Walter (Skag) Mercurio, Cleveland, OH
1958 - Frank Caruana, Buffalo, NY
         Frank Snyder, Erie, PA
         Harry Steers, Chicago, IL 
         Fred Thoma, Peoria, IL
1957 - Cone Hermann, St. Louis, MO 
         Frank Benkovic, Milwaukee, WI
1956 - Clarence Brayshaw, Omaha, NE
         Larry Sutton, Rochester, NY
         Frank Bruggeman, Burlington, IA