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. The debate also continues elsewhere on this site as we occassionally post this verse to see if we get any different comments see July 2009 and also in Jan 2010 . Joe Rexrode is a senior staff writer for The Athletic covering all things Nashville and some things outside Nashville. Henry Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 - July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. In the book Juiced, Jose says "Steroids used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier. Rice's all-time All-America backfield was Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Ken Strong, and Ernie Nevers. According to an exerpt from http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu Paul, Amazing Robert. It wont be whether we won or lost, Play Up! Although the words are slightly different they may have been written around the same time by different poets? When Bill woke up his scalp hung loose and knots adorned his head. It believe in this instance it means flat referring to his flat face. After the 1960 Olympics, Carolyn said, her father told then-Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington that TSUs beat-up track and lack of athletic scholarships needed to be fixed. Rice was mentioned in an I Love Lucy episode entitled "The Camping Trip", and was portrayed by actor Lane Smith, also a native of Tennessee, in The Legend of Bagger Vance. the stands are bare, the park is still. Many thanks for your clarification. Only two things count at all from mountain to the sea They wept to think bull-throated Bill would sock the line no more. Thanks again for your original contact during this 12-year discussion! 57 Likes, 0 Comments - IEEE MACE Student Branch (@ieeemace) on Instagram: ""It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." ~Grantland Rice IEEE CS SBC" On the rare occasion a white man wasnt the subject, the subject was liable to inspire ghastly doses of bigotry. Here is a poem given to Dutch Tennis Star Tom Okker by his mother on his first trip to Australia in 1964. whatever the game and whatever the odds var source = getCookieWithoutJQuery("source"); - Grantland Rice (August 16, 1948) The original version of this poem was published in 1910 by The Tennessean Company. He made significantly more money than virtually everyone he covered. The founder of the congregation of the Christian Brothers was not Cardinal Newman. Sorry Thats the reason for my mistake. Grantland Rice - Poet Grantland Rice Poems - Poem Hunter Game Called by Henry Grantland Rice - Famous poems, famous poets. - All [20] It operated for a little more than four years until being shuttered by ESPN on October 30, 2015, several months after Simmons's departure.[21]. Bill Jones had been the shining star upon his college team. He also provided monthly Grantland Rice Sportlights as part of Paramount newsreels from 1925 to 1954. Whereat he aimed a forward pass, but in two vicious bounds My research suggests the plaque was produced by Shapleigh between 1897 to 1908. (Top photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). First, Vanderbilt; second, Sewanee, a mighty good second;" and that Aubrey Lanier "came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. Before leaving for service in World War I, he entrusted his entire fortune, about $75,000 (the equivalent of around $1.4 million today), to a friend. Your poem is beautiful and still inspires you, I suspect. "ObfuscatedMarketplaceId": "A1PQBFHBHS6YH1" Sorry for slow reply. And when some rival tackler tried to block his dashing pace, it is very old, and hung on my grandmothers wall when my father was a child. Paul. Watch this colourful video. A.async = !0; That is not an ideological point. Many thanks, Paul. stylesheet.href = url; q("f", arguments) Hilarious stuff Dave many thanks. Your grandfather Mr. Brugh, roomed with Grantland Rice. Certain steroids, used properly, can cure certain diseases." (Canseco 3). Bill put on steam and dashed into the thickest of the pile; var gptAdSlots = gptAdSlots || []; From goal to goal he whizzed along while fragments, strewed the plain, For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, }; The world is but a cherry tree thats waiting to be picked; I didnt bother about it one way or another.. His tackling was ferocious and his bucking was a dream. Rice was spared and returned to the end of a college football season that had been pieced together through the pandemic a century-old preview of what the 2020 season might look like and to a view like no one else had of historic moments in sports and society. I sense happy memories. Game Called. I didnt realise it was an actual quote and not just a line made up by a brilliant scriptwriter. That standard redeems Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, James Madison and others like them because although they believed and did horrific and inhumane things, they defended the system that led to the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, the Civil Rights Act, womens suffrage and so on. Rice published a book of poetry, "Songs of the Stalwart" published in 1917 which contained some of his famous poetic recollections of sports heroes, as well as non-sports related poetry. In fact, this link opens up a few other sources. We inspire a new generation with amazing, true, two minute stories about sportsmanship. That when the Master Referee He writes not that you won or lost but how you played the Game, I agree with John Miles because I found this poem and it was said to be written by Grantland Rice and published in The Nashville Tennessean. Across the field of play the dusk has come, the hour is late. But you never can lose, and you never can fail Greetings Cooleen. The piece hung first in my grandmothers When husky William took the ball beneath his brawny arm And news writers. Who is the author? In his 1993 biography of Rice, Sportswriter, Charles Fountain wrote that Rices total annual earnings from all his enterprises exceeded $100,000 by then. His prose was flowing and passionate as in this description of Notre Dame's defeat of Army in 1924: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. TO WRITE AGAINST YOUR NAME window.Mobvious.device_type = 'mobile'; The plot thickens. It is powerful, isnt it? Ah Nancy this is beautiful. a[a9] = { But he was on his way to becoming a one-man industry movie reels, nationally syndicated columns and play by play for the first radio broadcast of a World Series game and would get a raise to $52,000 from the New York Tribune in 1925. When he wound up his college course each students heart was sore. A = p.createElement(s); Keep coming back If you publish my comment, please publish this note too. Meanwhile, scroll down to choose a story categorised by a country or a sport. Yes the poem lives on. //How he played the game: Assessing the complicated legacy of Grantland Rice Someone researched it and indeed found that J.B.Downie did so before the American was even born. house in Colgate, Oklahoma when Dad was growing up. The complete poem as I recall We cant all play a winning game, someone is sure to lose, Yet we can play so that our name no one may dare accuse, that when the master referee scores against our name, it wont be whether we won or lost but how we played the game. //]]> You can use our stories in a structured programme. "ebfg_email", "ebfg_sms"]; This is Rices account from The Tumult and the Shouting: When I encountered Owens after that jump, back at his quarters, he was the same modest person he had always been. Peggy this is fantastic. Its black and gold. Thanks again. Not so with William in his dreams he saw the Field of Fame, 1920. I found a photo of one that looks just like mine online via another seller. Check it out on my home page the video is pretty powerful. } My parents too had a small metal plaque on the wall with those famous words thereon circa 1925, Well George. That is not a partisan point. (function() { }, You can download this as a poster by clicking on it or print it out and post it onto a notice board, or a dressing room. var ue_mid = "A1PQBFHBHS6YH1"; He writes not that you won or lost but how you played the Game. This is intriguing. The winning is all up to you For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, Recipients of the Fred RussellGrantland Rice Sportswriting Scholarship include author and humorist Roy Blount, Jr.; Skip Bayless of Fox Sports[18] and Andrew Maraniss. Thanks again. return null; I found these beautiful words in my parents house in Dublin, Ireland. That is the clear, historically based view of it.. In dramatic lore . I am delighted with your information. HE MARKS NOT THAT YOU WON OR LOST var googletag = googletag || {}; This is great!!!! for(var i=0; i