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Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954

LC control no.n 92118372
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3535.I225
Personal name headingRice, Grantland, 1880-1954
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1880-11-01
Death date1954-07-13
Place of birthMurfreesboro (Tenn.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activitySports journalism
AffiliationVanderbilt University Montgomery Bell Academy (Nashville, Tenn.)
Profession or occupationSportswriters
Found inFountain, C. Sportswriter, 1993: CIP t.p. (Grantland Rice)
LC data base, 12-11-92 (hdg.: Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954)
The tumult and the shouting, 1954: t.p. (Grantland Rice) p. 3 (born Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Nov. 1, 1880, as Henry Grantland Rice) p. xiii (died July 13, 1954, New York City)
The great American sports page, 2019: page vii (Grantland Rice (1880-1954))
Wikipedia web site, August 31, 2019: (Henry Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880-July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. Grantland Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee ; 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 ; Sportswriter)
Associated languageeng