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Quotations
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Grantland Rice Quotes
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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the...


Biography

Name: Grantland Rice
Variant Name: Henry Grantland Rice, (Henry) Grantland Rice
Birth Date: November 1, 1880
Death Date: July 13, 1954
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Grantland Rice
7,151 words, approx. 24 pages
Certain phrases and images enter the popular imagination almost from the moment they are created. Passages from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow remain in the minds of readers who know no other poetry. Millions who have no idea who George Orwell was know...
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Biography of Grantland Rice
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Grantland Rice covered sports throughout the first half of the twentieth century, a period that can aptly be designated sportswriting's Golden Age. He got his first newspaper job at the age of twenty, in a day when a sports editor was expected to write...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Rice, Grantland (1880-1954) Summary
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Grantland Rice, arguably the best-known American sports writer ever, was also one of the most highly regarded personally and professionally. Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Rice attended Vanderbilt University and upon graduation began his journalism...
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Grantland Rice Information
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Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880–July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American...


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The Boston Globe
The sportswriting life of Grantland Rice
11/19/1993: 892 words, approx. 3 pages
SPORTSWRITER The Life And Times Of Grantland Rice By Charles Fountain Oxford University Press, 293 pp., $25 Bob Ryan is a Globe sports columnist. Grantland Rice is not exactly the essence of sportswriting chic. A contemporary writer tagged as...
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American Journalism Review
Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice. (book reviews)
04/01/1994: 743 words, approx. 3 pages
Grantland Rice wasn't the first bad sportswriter, but he was the greatest. To countless descendants (myself included) who graduated into journalism through sports, Rice was an icon, and his extravagant style the model for our own, inevitably worse, rhapsodic prose. As Charles Fountain...
 


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