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Grantland Rice
Rice on telephone and microphone, c. 1920
Born
(1880-11-01)November 1, 1880 Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.
Died
July 13, 1954(1954-07-13) (aged 73) New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Sportswriter
Alma mater
Vanderbilt University
Spouse
Fannie Katherine Hollis
(m. 1906)
Children
Florence Rice
Henry Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.
Henry GrantlandRice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published...
The GrantlandRice Trophy was an annual award presented in the United States from 1954 to 2013 to the college football team recognized by the Football...
as editor-in-chief until May 2015. Grantland was named after famed early-20th-century sportswriter GrantlandRice (1880–1954). On October 30, 2015, ESPN...
The GrantlandRice Bowl was an annual college football bowl game held from 1964 through 1977. The game originated as an NCAA College Division regional...
sportswriter GrantlandRice and Fannie Katherine Hollis. She attended Dwight School for Girls at Englewood, New Jersey, and Smith College. Rice became an...
about his talents under different aliases to GrantlandRice, the Atlanta Journal sports editor. Eventually, Rice wrote a small note in the Journal that a...
Vinny, U.S. Congressman Dick Dodge in The Distinguished Gentleman, GrantlandRice in The Legend of Bagger Vance, and U.S. President Richard Nixon in The...
2011. The website's name was a reference to deceased sportswriter GrantlandRice, though it was reportedly not Simmons' choice for the name. Sports blog...
could punch." In a preview of his fight with Max Baer, the sportswriter GrantlandRice wrote that Galento "expects to take his share of punches as part of...
in North America were of the 1922 World Series: famed sportswriter GrantlandRice announced play-by-play from New York City's Polo Grounds on WJZ–Newark...
memorably with the phrase "... and on the seventh day they rested." GrantlandRice called them "the most durable football team I ever saw." Organized intercollegiate...
College Division. In 1972, Louisiana Tech beat Tennessee Tech 35–0 in the GrantlandRice Bowl to win the Mideast Regional Championship. The Bulldogs finished...
return the GrantlandRice Trophy after being stripped of the 2004 Football Writers Assn. of America national championship... GrantlandRice was the legendary...
The 1975 GrantlandRice Bowl was an NCAA Division II game following the 1975 season, between the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers and the New Hampshire Wildcats...
The 1964 GrantlandRice Bowl was an NCAA College Division game following the 1964 season, between the Muskingum Fighting Muskies and the Middle Tennessee...
soul Whose destination is the goal — Red Grange of Illinois! -GrantlandRiceGrantlandRice was a known racist whose father was a cotton dealer and grandfather...
the GrantlandRice Bowl and the Pioneer Bowl, while the final game was the Camellia Bowl. In 1976 and 1977, the two semifinal games were the Grantland Rice...
The 1976 GrantlandRice Bowl was an NCAA Division II game following the 1976 season, between the Montana State Bobcats and the North Dakota State Bison...
The 1973 GrantlandRice Bowl was an NCAA Division II game following the 1973 season, between the Grambling Tigers (now the Grambling State Tigers) and...
about every other treatment one could imagine. "Casey's Revenge", by GrantlandRice (1907), gives Casey another chance against the pitcher who had struck...
enjoyed for its own sake. The well-known sentiment by sports journalist GrantlandRice, that it is "not that you won or lost but how you played the game",...
handicap of jumping early. However, this conversation is apocryphal; GrantlandRice was watching Owens the entirety of the qualifying round and did not...
The 1969 GrantlandRice Bowl was an NCAA College Division game following the 1969 season, between the East Tennessee State Buccaneers and the Louisiana...
sportswriter and Vanderbilt University alumnus GrantlandRice. Vanderbilt established the "Fred Russell–GrantlandRice Sportswriting Scholarship" in their honor...
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