- Date Of Death: August 6, 2011
- State: Connecticut
Dave Solomon, 59, died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, in a single-car accident on Interstate 91 in Middletown while returning from an assignment covering the first day of football practice at the University of Connecticut.
Dave started covering sports as a student journalist at the University of Connecticut where he became sports editor of the Daily Campus. He joined the staff of the Hartford Times on Nov. 24, 1973, graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1974, and then moved to the New Haven Register when the Times closed in October 1976.
Dave’s career at the Register spanned 35 years, during which he covered everything from schoolboy sports to the pros.
