But one day, when across the Field of Fame the goal seemed dim, session: { id: "869-7942173-5192773" }, Excuse me: The Grantland Rice Bowl, a college bowl game named in his honor, was played from 1964 to 1977. TO WRITE AGAINST YOUR NAME This puts it in the late 1910-20s at the latest. })(); I wish you well and thank you for your comment. FYI I just posted a link to a video of an American basketball player Chris Herren, ex pro and recovering addict, and one who sees what sport is all about fun. I have a Buzza Motto "Playing The Game" poem credited to J. var ue_sid = "869-7942173-5192773"; } else { A rent collector tackled him and threw him for a loss. 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. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("resource", "author_9741"); This is great!!!! Ray Calabrese May 10, 2020 May 1, 2020 inspiration, love, poem. Such qualities are the bedrock of the game, and the Lions of the Fifties were the epitome of those values. This was taken from an article in the Independent news paper which your father might enjoy. They were quite loyal to each other, Carolyn said of Temple, who passed away in 2016 at age 89, and her father, who passed away in 2003 at age 96. Ive yet to find the full poem .but pls ignore Sheetzs Amendment: Grantland Rice on tel/mic, c. 1920. Our family has a metal plaque from the Shapleigh Hardware Co. with this quote, no author referenced. I found these beautiful words in my parents house in Dublin, Ireland. Rice was a significant name in the burgeoning field of sportswriting when he returned to Nashville in 1907 to serve as the main attraction of a new paper, The Tennessean getting paid a hefty $70 a week. .__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.__prevent_empty_css_file{width:0}.authorModuleDropdownMenu{width:180px;border-left:1px solid #D8D8D8;border-right:1px solid #D8D8D8;border-top:1px solid #D8D8D8}.authorModuleDropdownMenu__dropdownLink,.authorModuleDropdownMenu__dropdownLink:hover{display:block;text-align:left;padding:12px;font-family:"Lato", "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#000000;cursor:pointer}#authorInfo{display:-webkit-box;display:-moz-box;display:-ms-box;display:box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-moz-flex;display:-ms-flex;display:flex;padding:10px 10px 5px 10px}#authorInfo .authorInfoGroup{-webkit-box-flex:1;-moz-box-flex:1;-ms-box-flex:1;box-flex:1}#authorInfo .authorPhotoGroup{-webkit-box-flex:0;-moz-box-flex:0;-ms-box-flex:0;box-flex:0;margin-right:10px}#authorInfo .authorFollow{display:flex}#authorInfo .authorFollow .authorDropdownContainer{border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #D6D0C4;font-family:"Lato", "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", sans-serif;font-size:14px;-moz-appearance:none;-o-appearance:none;-webkit-appearance:none;appearance:none;cursor:pointer;display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;color:#333333;background-color:#F4F1EA;line-height:1;padding:8px 12px;font-size:16px;padding:12px 24px;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;min-width:38px;height:32px;background-image:url(/assets/down-caret.png);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center;float:right}#authorInfo .authorFollow .authorDropdownContainer:disabled{border-color:#DDDDDD}#authorInfo .authorFollow .authorDropdownContainer:hover{color:#333333;background-color:#ede6d6;text-decoration:none}#authorInfo .authorFollow .authorDropdownContainer:active{background-color:#D6D0C4}#authorInfo .authorFollow .authorDropdownContainer:disabled{background-color:#F3F3F3;color:#cccccc}@media (max-width: 540px){#authorInfo .authorFollow .authorDropdownContainer{min-width:20px;width:27px}}#authorBooks{*zoom:1}#authorBooks:after{content:"";display:table;clear:both}#authorBooks .sectionTitle{border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;padding:10px 10px 0 10px;margin:0}.accordionContent{padding:0 10px}.authorBio{padding:0 10px;margin-bottom:10px}.authorBooksMeta{color:#999999;font-family:"Lato", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;padding:0 10px}.authorBooksMeta a{color:#00635D}.authorBooksTotalReviewCount:before,.authorBooksTotalRatingCount:before{content:"\00b7"}.authorDetailsList dt,.authorDetailsList dd{display:inline;margin:0}.authorDetailsList dd:after{content:'\A';white-space:pre}.authorDetailsList dt{font-weight:bold}.authorDetailsList dd{color:#999999;font-family:"Lato", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-bottom:15px}.authorDetailsList dd a{color:#00635D}.authorSimilarAuthorsLink{padding:0 10px}.authorDistinctWorksLink{padding:0 10px;display:block;margin-bottom:10px}.authorFansLink{font-weight:bold}.authorInterviewsList{list-style-type:none;margin:0;padding:0}.authorInterviewsList .authorInterview{margin-bottom:15px}.authorInterviewsList .authorInterviewAt{color:#999999;font-family:"Lato", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif}.authorInterviewsList .authorInterviewAt a{color:#00635D}.authorInterviewsList .authorInterviewTitle{display:block}.authorName{margin-bottom:10px}.authorShortBio{color:#999999;font-family:"Lato", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif}.authorShortBio a{color:#00635D}.authorQuotesLink{margin-bottom:15px}.quotesList{border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;margin-top:15px}.quotesPage{margin-left:10px}.noQuotes{margin-top:15px} My father who was a writer at the Nashville Banner also told me about what a great writer Grantland Rice was. 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. I should have said that The founder was: EDMUND RICE. Jim McCarthy, captained Munster and Ireland and played with the Lions. !function(){function n(n,t){var r=i(n);return t&&(r=r("instance",t)),r}var r=[],c=0,i=function(t){return function(){var n=c++;return r.push([t,[].slice.call(arguments,0),n,{time:Date.now()}]),i(n)}};n._s=r,this.csa=n}(); Who is the author? He wonders what kind of records Satchel Paige might have broken, had he been given the opportunity. Money everywhere they turn from morning to the night Thank you. It also has some inpirational writing on the back. Give Vanderbilt University a nod, along with Chattanooga and the words of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, for clarity on the intensified assault on Confederate glorification. Gwen thank you so much for this information. Grantland Rice, Alumunus Football, Only the Brave and Other Poems (1941) seems to be credited a lot however, my old graphic letters version says Newbolt (would this be Cardinal Newbolt)? I live in Boston and recently acquired this poem via a 1920s framed Buzzo Motto. The company published poems and writings by Edgar Allan Poe, Maurine Hathaway and J. P. McEvoy. Thats not to say Rice was an outspoken advocate for change before it happened. I dont remember what she said about how she knew this poem by memory. Of course. Bill put on steam and dashed into the thickest of the pile; Steve, Downie is an Irish name? It was installed in 1978. We were all bigots., Carolyn Russell recalls Rice in much the same way as anyone who wrote about Rice did such as Jimmy Cannon, a famously cynical New York sportswriter who wrote of him after he passed in 1954: Granny was a glorious man and the human race is running short of his kind. Anyone ever heard of Douglas DeLong or DeLorry..I believe he was a friend of Rice, Walt Mason and DeWolf Hopper. When he started in Uruguay he spoke just a couple of words of Spanish, and it was only later he found out, probably not best pleased, what the nickname the boys had given him meant. In fact, this link opens up a few other sources. and will invite anyone to send more information. That counts when the playing is through! googletag.pubads().setTargeting("surface", "mw"); It would be good to post it here so that we have both poems for reference. WHEN THE ONE GREAT SCORER COMES Rice married Fannie Katherine Hollis on April 11, 1906; they had one child, the actress Florence Rice. The back says To my sister, Ann, with love., Florence. Have enjoyed the thread! And when he switched his course again and dashed into the line I am just now reading your comment. Scores against our name. A framed version of the ornate graphics version of the verse used to hang on the wall in my parents bedroom in Dubin, way back in the 60s. Henry Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 - July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. Tell a friend. [CDATA[ [4] On the football team, he lettered in the year of 1899 as an end and averaged two injuries a year. Thanks again & very best wishes to Mac Pitt and all at Uni Richmond from a Dubliner in London. Who wrote these words? The sun has lost too much of its light, I have a Buzza Motto Playing The Game poem credited to J. Would love to share it but dont know how to post the picture. Thanks again for your original contact during this 12-year discussion! In 1948 (version on the left side) Rice changed it into a eulogy for Babe Ruth. 1979).. He is featured as a character in the movie Bagger Vance as well. After taking early jobs with the Atlanta Journal and the Cleveland News, he later became a sportswriter for the Nashville Tennessean. Thanks very much. Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the son of Bolling Hendon Rice, a cotton dealer,[1] and Mary Beulah (Grantland) Rice. Rice was an advocate for the emerging game of golf in the United States. }); TO WIN OR LOOSE , AND BE THE SAME. My parents too had a small metal plaque on the wall with those famous words thereon circa 1925, Well George. // I often wondered about the line. But did you beat the spread? Their shared legacy includes the Russell-Rice TRA scholarship for Vanderbilt students interested in sportswriting, awarded since 1956 to aspiring writers such as Roy Blount Jr., Skip Bayless, Lee Jenkins and Dan Wolken. Dr. Berger's Immune Power Diet Stuart M. Berger M.D. Things have changed a bit since then. Robert, thank you very much for this new angle to this discussion which has been going on for a few years on this site (see also other discussion for an additional discussion). If you put all youve got in your play; For the greatest reward that your efforts can bring, During a game against Muncie Central in which our team, the Artesians, were trailing at halftime and were thoroughly dejected, the 'Ol Fox jumped up on a bench as we headed back out to the court. Many thanks, Paul. //. It was all enchanted, Rices talent and access and career. [15][16] The Grantland Rice Bowl, an annual college football bowl game held from 1964 to 1977, was named in his honor, as was the Grantland Rice Award given to the winner. And there had been a standing bet, which no one tried to call, } 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. (Top photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). That was the same salary at the time as his good friend Babe Ruth. Bill tried to punt out of the rut, but ere he turned the trick He actually took a $20-a-week pay cut to take a job with the New York Evening Mail in 1910. I am not sure how we can clarify who wrote this beautiful verse and/or poem. The plaque belonged to my wifes grandfather, Orson Ryan, whose son Kent played football for the Lions we believe the plaque was obtained about 1908. Not to add to the mystery but I was sorting our bookcase and found a rendering of. According to author Mark Inabinett in his 1994 work, Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s, Rice very consciously set out to make heroes of sports figures who impressed him, most notably Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange, Babe Didrikson, and Knute Rockne. We witness ups and downs in the careers of such legendary . So yeah, Rice knew about the most famous pregame speech in football history before it happened. Kevin Blackistone, Washington Post columnist and University of Maryland journalism professor, wrote in an email that Rice and his peers of that time promoted outwardly, or tacitly, the racist segregation of sport., It wasnt until Lester Rodney in the mid-(19)30s for the socialist paper The Daily Worker started challenging sport to tear down the color barriers theyd erected in step with Jim Crow laws, Blackistone said of the catalyst for change. [12] Rice then made monthly contributions to the man's widow throughout his life.[13]. Thanks. Thank you so much for this. Thank you. Grantland Rice Let's play it outthis little game called Life, Where we are listed for so brief a spell; Not just to win, amid the tumult rife, Pass it on. }("apstag", window, document, "script", "//c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js"); Whereat he aimed a forward pass, but in two vicious bounds Thank you John for your beautiful story. For example, the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest a celebrated Confederate general, and a slave trader, and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan that sits in the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville is the subject right now of intense debate between lawmakers. Dont sit there whining-hustle up and keep on coming back; Keep coming back with all youve got, without an alibi, Where he would buck to glory in the swirl of Lifes big game. Thank you. and play the game! [Newbolt]. function(a9, a, p, s, t, A, g) { Thanks again. But how we played the game. And, kid, cut out this fancy stuff go in there, low and hard; HELP ME LORD var node = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; I never forgot that line. Being a descendant of slave owners is not a crime. I found out from my mother that her father, E.S. Mr. Kelly most likely has a framed motto published by The Buzza Co., who also published under Craftacres the name of their building in Minneapolis, from 1925. It adds to this 12 year old ongoing discussion about this poem. He was my daddys hero, basically.. I suppose Mr. Hitler is much too busy a man to stay out there forever. gads.type = "text/javascript"; for(var i=0; i Warburg Pincus Managing Director Salary, How To Make Snow Biome Terraria, Grafton Ohio Police Reports, Articles G