Editing Byron White (section)

==Awards and honors==
The NFL Players Association gives the [[Byron "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year Award]] to one player each year for his charity work. [[Michael McCrary]], who was involved in ''[[Runyon v. McCrary]]'', grew up to be a professional football player and won the award in 2000.
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| style="text-align: left;" |Of all the athletes I have known in my lifetime, I'd have to say Whizzer White came as close to anyone to giving 100 percent of himself when he was in competition.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tagliabue |first=Paul |year=2003 |title=A Tribute to Byron White |url=https://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LJHd2V1286LRkBzwPPf8FpCdCB666T2Z0gDNh28Gr8Ys9Fc2GYph!-1659539997!-1970812899?docId=5001918990 |url-status=live |journal=[[Yale Law Journal]] |publisher=[[Yale University]] |volume=112 |issue=5 |pages=999–1009 |doi=10.2307/3657514 |jstor=3657514 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604124913/http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LJHd2V1286LRkBzwPPf8FpCdCB666T2Z0gDNh28Gr8Ys9Fc2GYph!-1659539997!-1970812899?docId=5001918990 |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |access-date=August 25, 2017}}</ref>
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| style="text-align: right;" | — Pittsburgh Pirates owner<br />[[Art Rooney]]
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The [[Byron White United States Courthouse|federal courthouse]] in Denver that houses the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit|Tenth Circuit]] is named after White.

White was elected to the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] in 1952.{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=228}}

White was made an honorary fellow of [[Hertford College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hertford College Magazine |url=https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1991-No.-77-The-Hertford-College-Magazine.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115042210/https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1991-No.-77-The-Hertford-College-Magazine.pdf |access-date=8 January 2023 |website=Hertford College |archive-date=January 15, 2022 }}</ref>

White was posthumously awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 2003 by President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_Recipients.htm Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040714130038/http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_Recipients.htm |date=July 14, 2004 }}, retrieved July 30, 2009</ref>

White was inducted into the [[Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference]] Hall of Fame on July 14, 2007,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://buffzone.com/news/2007/feb/25/rmac-to-honor-whizzer/ |title=RMAC to honor 'Whizzer' |publisher=CUBuffs.com |date=February 25, 2007 |access-date=February 25, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071226043808/http://buffzone.com/news/2007/feb/25/rmac-to-honor-whizzer/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = December 26, 2007}}</ref> in addition to being a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the University of Colorado's Athletic Hall of Fame, where he is enshrined as "The Greatest Buff Ever".<ref>{{cite web|title=CU Athletic Hall of Fame — Justice Byron White|url=http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=921485|publisher=[[Colorado Buffaloes|University of Colorado (Boulder) Athletic Department]]|access-date=September 22, 2014|archive-date=March 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318093103/http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=921485|url-status=live}}</ref>