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Rice, Grantland (1880-1954)

US sports journalist. Gaining a reputation for vivid sports writing, he worked for the New York Herald Tribune 1914-30. After 1930 he wrote the column ‘The Sportlight’, setting the standard for modern sports journalism. He succeeded Walter Camp in selecting the annual All-America football team.

Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA, and educated at Vanderbilt University, Rice joined the staff of the Nashville News 1901 and was hired by the New York Mail 1911. His autobiography, The Tumult and the Shouting, was published 1954.
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And having the fine veteran actor Lane Smith, who has played everyone from Richard Nixon in the television version of ``The Final Days'' to revered sportswriter Grantland Rice in ``The Legend of Bagger Vance,'' as Perry White, the irascible editor of the Daily Planet, helped give the show character.
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5, will be presented with two more national championship trophies, from the Football Writers Association of America (the Grantland Rice Trophy) and The Sporting News.
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