This was part of a chapter titled The Negro Race, and Rice spends most of it praising black athletes of his day, particularly Louis. Many thanks Mike. paul@GreatSportsmanship.org perhaps two photo on of the front and the words and the back also? It inspired me to play every game the way they were meant to be played honorably, respectfully, and with intensity. And the courage to fight till youve won, var ue_sid = "869-7942173-5192773"; For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, } var cookiePair = cookie.split('='); After all, hed been there most of the day. This is fascinating. var ue_t0=window.ue_t0||+new Date(); With your permission Ill add it to this post plus post it on our facebook page etc. try { The plot thickens. I Never Played the Game Howard Cosell with Peter Bonventre 10. Christmas 1927 With the Grantland Rice name in this thread, I thought I would throw this curveball (hahahahaha )Lee Mero married Kathryn Rice in 1920!!!! From Grantland Rice oldned Uncategorized August 29, 2022 1 Minute "When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game." Circa 1925 eh as an earlier comment suggested 1930s. Or were they for ending the Constitutional experiment altogether?. An ignorant man follows public opinion." Grantland Rice tags: decision , decision-making , decisions 5 likes Like "The flame of the inn is dim tonight, Too many vacant chairs. This is the challenge of judging a revered figure from a century ago in todays terms. In 1936 in Berlin, he saw Owens deliver a quadruple-gold blow to Adolf Hitlers Aryan superiority propaganda. That is not an ideological point. Thanks Richard 1 9 8 6 . And more than all, when you are thrown or tumbled with a crack, And when they stop you with a thud or halt you with a crack, So if that standard can be applied somehow to sportswriting, or journalism in general from around a century ago, here is the question: Does Rices apparent belief in a greater good outweigh some of his words? Uruguay wow! What pictures he paints with words and all layered with wisdom too. _Q: [] Henry Grantland Rice was born in 1880 in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and opted for journalism after graduating from Vanderbilt in 1901 and playing for the Vanderbilt baseball and football teams. For many years, a portion of one floor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism was designated the "Grantland Rice Suite".
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