The Author of the Infamous Article

*Grantland Rice (1880-1954)
*Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
*American sportswriter
*Known as the Voice of Sports during the 1920s, and considered a pioneer in the development of modern sports journalism.
*Educated at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
*He moved to Atlanta and finally, New York where he worked as a writer.
*Rice filled his writing with literary traits, often adding his own poems to his stories
*From 1901-1911 Rice was a reporter on various newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal and the Cleveland News
*After 1911 he wrote about sports events, successively, in the New York Evening Mail, Tribune, and Sun.
*Rice's column of sporting news, comment, and gossip, “The Sportlight,” was nationally syndicated in 1930.
*Rice was the president of a company producing motion picture documentaries about sports.
*He immortalized Notre Dame's outstanding 1924 backfield as "The Four Horsemen," nicknamed Red Grange "The Galloping Ghost”
*Authored one of the most frequently quoted poetic couplets in all of sport: "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 Game.”

*Grantland Rice’s Works

Non-Fiction
* The Winning Shot (with Jerome Dunstan Travers, 1915)
* The Boy's Book of Sports (1917)
* The Duffer's Handbook of Golf (with Claire A. Briggs, 1926)
* Understand Football (with John William Heisman, 1929)
* The Omnibus of Sport (editor, with Harford Powel, 1932)
* Spalding's Golf Guide 1932 (editor, 1932)
* The Bobby Jones Story: From the Writings of O.B. Keeler (1953)
* The Tumult and the Shouting: My Life in Sport (1954)
* The Best of Grantland Rice (1963)

Poetry
* Base-Ball Ballads (1910)
* Songs of the Stalwart (1917)
* Songs of the Open (1924)
* Only the Brave and Other Poems (1941)
* Steel and Flame: A Collection of War Poems (1942)
* The Final Answer and Other Poems (1955)