window.Mobvious.device_type = 'mobile'; Hard to say. He praised the inclusion of black athletes in major professional sports and wrote about women in sports with the respect many of his colleagues did not. In this famous College, when I was a very little child, I learned this very short poem, just as I wrote it here. Your grandfather Mr. Brugh, roomed with Grantland Rice. But in the 1930s so were the rest of the sportswriters. 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. Hilarious stuff Dave many thanks. 35 likes All Members Who Liked This Quote Nicholas 438 books Rice's all-time All-America backfield was Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Ken Strong, and Ernie Nevers. Meanwhile, scroll down to choose a story categorised by a country or a sport. document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(stylesheet); If you have the book , perhaps you could take photo of the cover and also the page wit the poem & post it here (or email me paul@GreatSportsmanship.org ) . But one day, when across the Field of Fame the goal seemed dim, googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); The Game. })(); No one may dare accuse, In 1907, Rice saw what he would call the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports during the SewaneeVanderbilt football game: the catch by Vanderbilt center Stein Stone, on a double-pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to set up the touchdown run by Honus Craig that beat Sewanee at the very end for the SIAA championship. But how you played the game. Invite us to tell stories in your school or club. The fight is done and lost or won, the player files out through the gate. 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. When husky William took the ball beneath his brawny arm I wonder if the Buzza company did the graphics on this lovely verse? 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. url = "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/mobile/phone_hd_images-2b89833762f600506d44865a33582d11.css"; The tumult dies, the cheer is hushed, the stands are bare, the park is still. From all the above it should be evident that the idea was NOT first expressed by Grantland Rice. She asks not if you won or lost, This is intriguing. The winning is all up to you Thanks again. It really is a beautiful set of words. Just keep your eye upon the ball and plug on, yard by yard, As such, it can be served by no apologies or defenses, Fountain wrote, and deserves damnation less than it deserves understanding.. (function() { Rice was posthumously awarded the 1966 J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. 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. Any help would be appreciated. B. Downie and art by Lee Mero. Grantland Rice New Year - Old Poem - Great Sport January 8, 2010 by Paul Smith As it's the start of a new year (not a new decade - isn't that next year? As usual, he had astounding access. (The principal sport promoted was Rugby). For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, Christmas 1927" With the Grantland Rice name in this thread, I thought I would throw this curveball (hahahahaha )Lee Mero married Kathryn Rice in 1920!!! Please send me a photo of the plaque. Bill was no quitter, so he tried a buck in higher gear, "[7] Rice coached the 1908 Vanderbilt baseball team. What of their spirit, individual acts of supreme courage and bravery? I Never Played the Game Howard Cosell with Peter Bonventre 10. gads.type = "text/javascript"; if you get a moment perhaps you might send a photo or scan the poem (both sides ie including the To my sister Ann. and Ill add it to the blog post in due course. In fact, this link opens up a few other sources. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, wrote a celebrated biography of Thomas Jefferson and was chosen by the Bush family to write George H.W. Im sure I read it first at Harpeth Hall in high school. That is not a partisan point. This quotation comes from the poem, Alumnus Football, by Grantland Rice. That counts when the playing is through! var cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); The frames were also made in house. [CDATA[ So if that standard can be applied somehow to sportswriting, or journalism in general from around a century ago, here is the question: Does Rices apparent belief in a greater good outweigh some of his words? Rices style has been criticized as schmaltzy and overly sentimental, even by some of his contemporaries. So were the athletes and the actors and the fans who came to cheer them. How bizarre is that??? Ann, thank you for sending this. So were the policemen and the shopkeepers and the farmers and the factory owners. }); And more than all, when you are thrown or tumbled with a crack, Born in Murfreesboro on November 1, 1880, Rice was one of the foremost sports authorities and respected voices during his heyday as New York's "Herald Tribune" columnist. Then he opened his own insurance business. As regard Chato, it can mean many things in South American Spanish. var ue_sid = "869-7942173-5192773"; It was not his first golf event, but it was the one that seemed to pull him toward the game.[8]. And news writers. Stella Maris is where the boys in the 1972 Andes accident went to school, and it is that spirit that helped them survive the 72 days on the mountain. Mark, this is wonderful. // My grandfather Mr.Brugh, as I would hear him called. Money everywhere they turn from morning to the night And then to find this site and to read about the origin of the linesimply remarkable. Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941) More quotations on: [ Sports] In 1936 in Berlin, he saw Owens deliver a quadruple-gold blow to Adolf Hitlers Aryan superiority propaganda. googletag.enableServices(); [4] On the football team, he lettered in the year of 1899 as an end and averaged two injuries a year. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("grsession", "osid.66a657b45f57e162fd8222433e96937e"); I am 80 years old and have a framed wall poem by Only two things count at all from mountain to the sea googletag.pubads().setTargeting("gr_author", "false"); "https:" : "http:") + Scores against our name. He is now 84 years old and in great form. Thanks again. window.Mobvious = {}; Thank you so much for this. With your permission Ill add it to this post plus post it on our facebook page etc. Please accept my condolences on the death of Brother Eamonn Chato ODonnell. (Top photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). In the great game of Life its the purpose to win, I see that Tabor was a well known calligrapher. Let every games end find you still upon the battling line; Sorry for slow reply. George Buzza, founder of The Buzza Co., published greeting cards, calendar posters and other fine paper products. He received the J.G. I havent even thought about it, (Owens) said. I will ask him where he first heard that quote and hopefully answer your query. if (isRetina) { In todays dollars, thats about $1.5 million. Will be scored to your credit, my son. An ignorant man follows public opinion." Grantland Rice tags: decision , decision-making , decisions 5 likes Like "The flame of the inn is dim tonight, Too many vacant chairs. //]]> So were the teachers who taught the small children, the doctors who tended the sick, the congressmen who made the laws and the jurists who administered justice. See also my TEDx Talk: How Sportsmanship Can Change The World. On the baseball team, he was captain in 1901.[4][5]. q("i", arguments) thanks again. He tried to run the ends of life, but with rib-crushing toss WHEN THE ONE GREAT SCORER COMES This is known as the Players prayer at Stella Maris College in Uruguay mentioned by Marcus Aznarez. I would love to read the whole poem again. He is featured as a character in the movie Bagger Vance as well. So the search goes on. 1 November 1880 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; d. 13 July 1954 in New York City), sportswriter who was the most powerful and far-reaching voice in U.S. sports for nearly half a century, and who first said it mattered "not that you won or lost, but how you played the game." }; I dont remember what she said about how she knew this poem by memory. Jim McCarthy, captained Munster and Ireland and played with the Lions. He became interested in the sport in 1909 while covering the Southern Amateur at the Nashville Golf Club. But through the night there shines the light, 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. That was a couple of years ago. We witness ups and downs in the careers of such legendary . Two of these poems I cannot find anywhere..It looks like Mr. Delong was editing for someone. Though Rice's ode to sportsmanship is over 100 years old, it's still relevant today (maybe even more so) as stories of bad behavior by people who . They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below.. That was in the early part of the last century, well before 1941. for(var i=0; i