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Henry Grantland Rice was a sportswriter, columnist, and poet from Tennessee known as the "Dean of American Sports Writers". He published three books of poetry, and coined the famous phrase that it was
Rice c. 1920
Rice at Vanderbilt University in 1901
Grantland Rice's Sportlights ad in Exhibitor's Trade Review
Grantland Rice Sportlights ad in Motion Picture News, 1926
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame was a group of American football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne. They were the backfield of Notre Dame's 1924 football team. The playe
Grantland Rice
…Teams for beginning in 1925, and for being the writer who dubbed the great backfield of coach Rockne's 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame. A Biblical reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, this famous account was published in the New York Herald Tribune on October 18, describing…
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame: Don Miller, Elmer Layden, Jim Crowley, and Harry Stuhldreher