Grantland Rice

Henry Grantland Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1880. After graduating from Vanderbilt University in 1901, Rice wrote for the Cleveland News and Atlanta Journal. He worked as a sportswriter for the Nashville Tennessean, followed by jobs with various major newspapers in the northeast U.S. Rice became a well-known and beloved sports journalist, his writing documenting the so-called “Golden Age of Sports” in the 1920s. In addition to his 50-year career in sports journalism, Rice also authored a book of poetry, Songs of the Stalwart (1917). Rice died following a stroke at age 73 in 1954.