Grantland Rice

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Grantland Rice was a prominent early 20th-century American sportswriter renowned for his poetic, influential coverage of college football and other major sports.

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instanceOf human
journalist
sportswriter
burialPlace Long Island National Cemetery NERFINISHED
coinOrPopularize "Four Horsemen" nickname for Notre Dame backfield NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
coveredEvent World Series NERFINISHED
college football bowl games
coveredTeam Notre Dame Fighting Irish football NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1880-11-01
dateOfDeath 1954-07-13
education Vanderbilt University NERFINISHED
employer The Nashville Tennessean NERFINISHED
The New York Evening Mail NERFINISHED
The New York Herald Tribune NERFINISHED
The New York World NERFINISHED
era early 20th century
interwar period
familyName Rice NERFINISHED
fullName Henry Grantland Rice NERFINISHED
genre column
poetry
sports journalism
givenName Grantland NERFINISHED
Henry NERFINISHED
hasChild Florence Rice NERFINISHED
influenced American sports journalism
languageOfWorkOrName English
maritalStatus married
memberOfSportsHallOfFame National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame NERFINISHED
notableFor coverage of college football
coverage of major American sports
poetic sportswriting
notableWork "The Four Horsemen" football column NERFINISHED
"The Sportlight" column
"The Tumult and the Shouting" NERFINISHED
occupation columnist
poet
sportswriter
placeOfBirth Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
spouse Katherine Hollis NERFINISHED
style florid prose
romanticized depiction of athletes
wroteAbout Major League Baseball NERFINISHED
boxing
college football
golf
horse racing

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National Football Foundation founder Grantland Rice