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American sportswriter (1880–1954)

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Grantland rice biography of michaels

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Henry Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.

Early life and education

Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the son of Bolling Hendon Rice, a cotton dealer,^[1] and Mary Beulah (née Grantland) Rice.^[2] His grandfather Major H.

W. Rice was a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War.^[3]

Rice attended Montgomery Bell Academy and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he was a member of the football team for three years, a shortstop on the baseball team, a brother in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and graduated with a BA degree in 1901 in classics.^[4] On the football team, he lettered in the year of 1899 as an end and averaged two injuries a y