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The Grantland Rice Bowl was an annual college football bowl game, Rice, Grantland. The Boy's Book of Sports. 1917. ↑ Playing the Game A framed poem by English poet J.B. Downie, dated 1925, indicates that Rice was taking liberties with Downie's "Playing the Game" with the ending of his original poem "Alumnus Football".
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Feb. 14 "Classics" NBS, read items under the following headings: Grantland Rice(455), Knute Rockne (458), Grantland Rice (459-460), and Red Sanders (454).James Wright, "Autumn begins in Martins Ferry,Ohio" NBS, p. 259. J. A. R. McKellar, "Football Field: Evening" PHO, p.6. Grantland Rice, "Alumnus Football," PHO.
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Feb. 16 "Classics" NBS, read items under the following headings: Grantland Rice(455), Knute Rockne (458), Grantland Rice (459-460), and Red Sanders (454). James Wright, "Autumn begins in Martins Ferry,Ohio" NBS, p. 259. J. A. R. McKellar, "Football Field: Evening" PHO, p.6. Grantland Rice, "Alumnus Football," PHO.
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--from the poem "Alumnus Football" by Grantland Rice. Grandland Rice Grantland Rice is one of the best know sports writers of the Golden Age of sports.
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Dec 8, 2007 Alumnus Football by Grantland Rice. One of the great sports poems of all time by one of the greatest sports writers... Alumnus football
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That 1924 lead is far from Rice's only claim to fame. He's credited with dubbing the great Red Grange, a University of Illinois and Chicago Bears halfback, the "Galloping Ghost" and is justifiably acclaimed for this couplet from a poem called "Alumnus Football":
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FROM HIS 1941 POEM, 'ALUMNUS FOOTBALL': Most Grantland Rice Trophies: USC 6, Oklahoma 5, Alabama 4, Miami 4, Nebraska 4, Notre Dame 4, Ohio State 4.
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Rice's long, eventful career was described in the autobiography he finished shortly before his death, The Tumult and the Shouting. A well-rounded, polished writer, Grantland Rice is the benchmark those who would write sports are measured against.
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For the closing of the seminar, the students rotated the reading of the stanzas from a 64-line poem, “Alumnus Football”, written in 1923 by Tennessean and Vanderbilt-educated Grantland Rice, the poem with the most-quoted sports adage of all time: “For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
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