However the debate continues because the beautiful graphic styled verse that I found in my family home I love his writing about The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. JB Downie is possibly the author. Thanks Richard Meanwhile the Independent newspaper (11 October 2007) endorsed this spirit of sportsmanship (and your father in particular): Money everywhere they turn from morning to the night stylesheet.rel = "stylesheet"; Rices career was interrupted to serve in World War I at 37 years old. home beyond the silent hill. He is now 84 years old and in great form. "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." Grantland Rice tags: paraphrased Read more quotes from Grantland Rice Share this quote: Like Quote Recommend to friends Friends Who Liked This Quote To see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up! var gads = document.createElement("script"); His brothers were much older than himI suppose the poem was printed sometime in the time between 1910 and 1925. At least he didnt go word for word. [10], The passage added great import to the event described and elevated it to a level far beyond that of a mere football game. Many thanks Ann. [CDATA[ It is gold leaf with a picture of two dueling horses with men in coats of armor. That when the Master Referee if (a[a9]) return; Sorry Thats the reason for my mistake. I am just now reading your comment. Thank you. Post navigation. See also my TEDx Talk: How Sportsmanship Can Change The World. I didnt bother about it one way or another.. Rices memoir includes accounts of hanging out with Ruth in his Chicago hotel room the night before the called shot home run in the 1932 World Series against the Cubs; hunting wild turkey with his good friend Dan McGugin, the legendary Vanderbilt football coach; and drinking with Rockne at his home the night before the 1928 Notre Dame-Army game Rockne told Rice he was thinking about telling his team before the game about the words of George Gipp on his deathbed in 1920, to ask a Notre Dame team at some point to win just one for the Gipper.. })(); var googletag = googletag || {}; On his return from the war, Rice discovered that his friend had lost all the money in bad investments, and then had committed suicide. Tell a friend. [14] In 1954, the Football Writers Association of America established the Grantland Rice Trophy, an annual award presented (from 1954 to 2013) to the college football team recognized by the FWAA as the National Champions. He knows some are asking this question: If all the Confederate monuments and tributes are wiped out, at what point are the Jefferson or George Washington monuments founding fathers but also slave owners in jeopardy? TO WIN OR LOOSE , AND BE THE SAME. And what a mighty name too. Centering around the life and times of the revered American sportswriter Grantland Rice (1880-1954), How You Played the Game takes us back to those magical days of sporting tales and mythic heroes. But you never can lose, and you never can fail The other team would shiver when they saw him start to buck. It would be good to post it here so that we have both poems for reference. Peggy this is fantastic. Steve, Downie is an Irish name? Maintaining a rosy view of a Confederate figure who had a role in the massacre of more than 300 black Union troops at the 1864 Battle of Fort Pillow is problematic. (Top photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). Through Rice's eyes we behold such sports as bicycle racing, boxing, golf, baseball, football, and tennis as they were played before 1950. Of course. var url; For it isnt the score, and it isnt the prize Grantland Rice on tel/mic, c. 1920. And when he tackled at Success in one long, vicious prod Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. The illustrating department created superb designs which were reverent to the poetry, and Buzza printed on quality paper using quality inks. By post-WWI the company along with other fine publishing houses were framing poems, also referred to as poetry from the heart and now Buzza mottoes. Coincidentally, I spoke in Notre Dame and we now have a great alliance. Incidentally, I read the verse to 60 Year 5 students (aged 9) yesterday and they loved it. And some of the things Rice wrote during his career are simply racist. The fight is done and lost or won, the player files out through the gate. [CDATA[ Game Called. Rice was a great sportswriter who coined the phrase The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame and is also credited with the name The Crimson Tide for the University of Alabama football team. (function() { for(var i=0; i Campbell Smith Kalispell Death,
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