Biography

Grantland Rice 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.

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. On the football team, he lettered in the year of 1899 as an end and averaged two injuries a year. On the baseball team, he was captain in 1901. Rice coached the 1908 Vanderbilt baseball team. Rice was an advocate for the game of golf. He became interested in golf in 1909 while covering the Southern Amateur at the Nashville Golf Club. It was not his first golf event, but it was the one that seemed to pull him toward the game.
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Father of actress Florence Rice.

Baseball writer for the Nashville Daily News, Atlanta Journal, Cleveland News, New York Evening Mail, New York Herald-Tribune and New York Daily News.

Recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award (presented to a writer for meritorious contributions to baseball writing) in 1966.

Member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

[about professional golfer Bobby Jones] There is no more chance that golf will give the world another Jones than there is that literature will produce another [William Shakespeare]..

There is no secret connected with Bobby Jones' mastery of the golf world. There are others who have a swing just about as sound, the same determination and the same ability to concentrate. But there is no other who has the all-around combination of these essential elements. This combination happened to meet in one man for the first time in the history of golf.