I never heard this before and we have had a few variations of the original poem since we started this discussion (ie e search for the origin of this poem) over a decade ago. That is fascinating. Russell was there to chronicle the three gold medals Wilma Rudolph won at the 1960 Games in Rome, a massive moment for black women in American sports. He writes - not that you won or lost - But HOW you played the Game. var ue_t0=window.ue_t0||+new Date(); The debate also continues elsewhere on this site as we occassionally post this verse to see if we get any different comments see July 2009 and also in Jan 2010 . There we learned the English language, Religion, and all the other signatures. By The Way, If you enter the word : POEM into the search engine in the top right hand corner (with the magnifying glass icon), you will find 3 different posts/articles about For when the one great scorer poem, and, more interestingly, you will find some even more intriguing comments suggesting the source of this poem. Is keep on bucking Failure till youve worn the piker out!. TO WIN OR LOOSE , AND BE THE SAME. In 1936 in Berlin, he saw Owens deliver a quadruple-gold blow to Adolf Hitlers Aryan superiority propaganda. Perhaps you might post the full poem in an other comment as it sounds different to my poem. Centering around the life and times of the revered American sportswriter Grantland Rice (1880-1954), How You Played the Game takes us back to those magical days of sporting tales and mythic heroes. I should have said that The founder was: EDMUND RICE. His syndicated column, "The Sportlight," was the most influential of its day . What an enchanting verse. I found these beautiful words in my parents house in Dublin, Ireland. But did you beat the spread? Today's Poem ~ The Game. So, with the sheepskin tucked beneath his arm in football style, Bill put on steam and dashed into the thickest of the pile; With eyes ablaze he sprinted where the laureled highway led- When Bill woke up his scalp hung loose and knots adorned his head. During . Many thanks. As such, it can be served by no apologies or defenses, Fountain wrote, and deserves damnation less than it deserves understanding.. Rices style has been criticized as schmaltzy and overly sentimental, even by some of his contemporaries. Afterwards he obtained a series of prestigious jobs with major newspapers in the northeastern United States. googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); I wonder if the Buzza company did the graphics on this lovely verse? i once became a player of chess but i loose the game but i accept it because my father and teacher always say to me play the game fair and accept the result of the game and be sport, Hello. Someone once told me that the words were written by Robert W Service. His prose was flowing and passionate as in this description of Notre Dame's defeat of Army in 1924: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. Kevin Blackistone, Washington Post columnist and University of Maryland journalism professor, wrote in an email that Rice and his peers of that time promoted outwardly, or tacitly, the racist segregation of sport., It wasnt until Lester Rodney in the mid-(19)30s for the socialist paper The Daily Worker started challenging sport to tear down the color barriers theyd erected in step with Jim Crow laws, Blackistone said of the catalyst for change. She was one of 40 of Temples TSU Tigerbelles who became Olympians, a tradition as proud as any in the history of sports in the state. B. Downie and art by Lee Mero. He knows some are asking this question: If all the Confederate monuments and tributes are wiped out, at what point are the Jefferson or George Washington monuments founding fathers but also slave owners in jeopardy? In 1908, legendary sports journalist Grantland Rice wrote, "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." His poem compared sports to lifeenjoy the competition, try your best, and focus more on effort than the outcome. This beautiful piece of art & poetry was framed and hung proudly in Peggys parents home. The difference between the two is that, while Russell also had a national presence, he stayed in Nashville for his entire career, serving as sports editor for The Banner from 1930 until the paper closed in 1998. Peggy this is fantastic. g.parentNode.insertBefore(A, g) In 1907, Rice saw what he would call the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports during the SewaneeVanderbilt football game: the catch by Vanderbilt center Stein Stone, on a double-pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to set up the touchdown run by Honus Craig that beat Sewanee at the very end for the SIAA championship. Follow Joe on Twitter @joerexrode, Grantland Rice (center, with hat) walks Augusta National with his good friend Bobby Jones (right, with club). Jose seems to be really passionate about wanting to look better and wanting to be more healthier. Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the son of Bolling Hendon Rice, a cotton dealer,[1] and Mary Beulah (Grantland) Rice. ! Poems by Thayer, Rice and Walt Mason. return false; It would be good to post it here so that we have both poems for reference. Big Center Greed slipped through a hole and rammed him out of bounds. Paul, There is a boys camp in Goshen Pass, Va called Camp Virginia. Thx again for your powerful words: The poem lives on. I have the actual poem. window.Mobvious = {}; If the glorification standard of Meacham a current Vanderbilt voice can be applied to one from long ago, Grantland Rice deserves his place in the pages of history. What of their spirit, individual acts of supreme courage and bravery? And news writers. var useSSL = "https:" == document.location.protocol; He wonders what kind of records Satchel Paige might have broken, had he been given the opportunity. Scores against our name. } "you are meant to play the ball as it lies." Grantland Rice 6 likes Like "A wise man makes his own decisions. [CDATA[ Meanwhile we launched a new poem last Christmas, called The Smiling Poem if you scroll down through this post about smiling http://www.greatmomentsofsportsmanship.com/smiling-helps-you-win-in-sport-and-in-life/ . Rugby Union, as introduced by the Irish Christian brothers to Stella Maris was and is an integral part of building character. } That must have been interesting! //Henry Grantland Rice - Poems by the Famous Poet - All Poetry Someone researched it and indeed found that J.B.Downie did so before the American was even born. the stands are bare, the park is still. You remember the poem from your childhood education with the Christian Brothers. Why Sportsmanship Matters - Game One He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, wrote a celebrated biography of Thomas Jefferson and was chosen by the Bush family to write George H.W. [2] His grandfather Major H. W. Rice was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War. (function() { Watch this colourful video. The gym and the elementary school were demolished years ago. Uruguay wow! By post-WWI the company along with other fine publishing houses were framing poems, also referred to as poetry from the heart and now Buzza mottoes. Become an ambassador (looks good on your CV). These are all beliefs many readers of the 1950s did not share. Regards !function(){function n(n,t){var r=i(n);return t&&(r=r("instance",t)),r}var r=[],c=0,i=function(t){return function(){var n=c++;return r.push([t,[].slice.call(arguments,0),n,{time:Date.now()}]),i(n)}};n._s=r,this.csa=n}(); What of their honesty, the way in which they represented their countries and enhanced the great values of their sport? The back says "To my sister, Ann, with love., Florence. }; home beyond the silent hill. Not long ago I questioned the author of the poem as I had a copy that my father gave me on my bedroom wall that I felt predated the life of the American credited with it. IEEE MACE Student Branch on Instagram: ""It's not whether you win or Many thanks for this intriguing information. I am 80 years old and have a framed wall poem by Jacob B. Downie(1843-1912) from as far back as I can remember.It goes: We cant all play a winning game, And thank yo again for sending us the poem from your schooldays. Game Called by Henry Grantland Rice - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Providing PROvision for all your mortgage loans and home loan needs! It was all enchanted, Rices talent and access and career. BUT HOW YOU PLAYED THE GAME. It is gold leaf with a picture of two dueling horses with men in coats of armor. var url; A = p.createElement(s); In fact it is worth reading the comments others have made over the years. RICE, Grantland ( b. I never forgot that line. The Great Scorer by John Wooden | Poetry Magazine Warm wishes to you from London. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("surface", "mw"); Paul, Amazing Robert. But how you played the game., Thanks Mary Thanks so much for typing it and posting it its beautiful what greta advice for a mother to give her young professional son stepping into a new world. [15][16] The Grantland Rice Bowl, an annual college football bowl game held from 1964 to 1977, was named in his honor, as was the Grantland Rice Award given to the winner. After taking early jobs with the Atlanta Journal and the Cleveland News, he later became a sportswriter for the Nashville Tennessean. For when the one great scorer comes But he took in a good spirit and was always known as Chato. So yeah, Rice knew about the most famous pregame speech in football history before it happened. These are only aliases. There are many answers to the question who wrote the original poem. Thank you. I have searched high and low to find who was the graphic artist and who was the author. It adds to this 12 year old ongoing discussion about this poem. Taylor Spink Award posthumously in 1966 from the Baseball Writers Association of America for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. David, that is very helpful. Meanwhile, does anyone know, for sure, who wrote these words? It wont be whether we won or lost, How he played the game: Assessing the complicated legacy of Grantland Rice I live in Boston and recently acquired this poem via a 1920s framed Buzzo Motto. Is there a way I can post a picture of it? The plaque belonged to my wifes grandfather, Orson Ryan, whose son Kent played football for the Lions we believe the plaque was obtained about 1908. Rice married Fannie Katherine Hollis on April 11, 1906; they had one child, the actress Florence Rice. var ue_furl = "fls-na.amazon.com"; page: {requestId: "PTPHS3MESDKWDQ4ZK9G7", meaningful: "interactive"} "ObfuscatedMarketplaceId": "A1PQBFHBHS6YH1" Smith attributed the verse to Grantland Rice. url = "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/mobile/phone_images-9e9093f0cfddba8c2b1e815375d976a3.css"; Rice died at the age 73 on July 13, 1954, following a stroke. The tumult dies, the cheer is hushed, the stands are bare, the park is still. To defeat your opponents today; But how we played the game. As we understand the term today, he was most assuredly a bigot, Fountain wrote of Rice. The other team would shiver when they saw him start to buck. Best wishes, Paul. The Rices bought a house overlooking the ocean in East Hampton, N.Y., next door to Ring Lardner and his family. Who wrote these words? Many thanks Mike. To write against your name, googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(true); It has actually generated several streams of thought as I opened it up in a few different blog posts. The poem lives on. So if that standard can be applied somehow to sportswriting, or journalism in general from around a century ago, here is the question: Does Rices apparent belief in a greater good outweigh some of his words? The fight is done and lost or won, the player files out through the gate. See also my TEDx Talk: How Sportsmanship Can Change The World. [6] Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin in Spalding's Football Guide's summation of the season in the SIAA wrote, "The standing. Sweet are the dreams of college life, before our faith is nicked- I purchased it from an estate sale. For example, the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest a celebrated Confederate general, and a slave trader, and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan that sits in the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville is the subject right now of intense debate between lawmakers. if (isRetina) { if(cookiePair[0] === name) { Here is a different, yet beautiful, overlapping intriguing version of the poem written in 1925 by JB Downie in Minneapolis, USA, kindly sent into us by Peggy Legrande. Enter your email address below and we will email you new posts: Portuguese Players Shake Englishmans Hand After He Scores, Silence was broken by a dog barking outside the packed stadium, Paris the perfect setting for reunion of Invincible Lions, Not That You Won or Lost but at Great Moments of Sportsmanship, http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/research/guides/bios.shtml, Not That You Won or Lost but Great Moments Of Sportsmanship, http://www.greatmomentsofsportsmanship.com/spread-the-moments/, Not That You Won or Lost but | Great Moments Of Sportsmanship, New Year Old Poem Great Sport | Great Moments Of Sportsmanship, Bush League or Little League? ~ Paul. Mr. Kelly most likely has a framed motto published by The Buzza Co., who also published under Craftacres the name of their building in Minneapolis, from 1925. var source = getCookieWithoutJQuery("source"); Its not whether you win or lose but how you place the blame (in John Peers 1001 Logical Laws . If you get a chance maybe you could photograph front and back and well post them up here. [10], The passage added great import to the event described and elevated it to a level far beyond that of a mere football game. Then he opened his own insurance business. [2] He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City. I have been researching two knights sparing and the J B Downing poem, Playing the game. Game Called by Grantland Rice on Baseball Almanac Well, I hope this may be interesting for you. Click on the title: Paris the perfect setting for reunion of Invincible Lions, One South African journalist wrote: South Africa owes a manifold debt to the British Isles rugby touring team. Next. May I enter the discussion on who wrote those final lines of Rices epic poem. Thank you so much for sending this in. In the book Juiced, Jose says "Steroids used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier. JB Downie is possibly the author. (Top photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images). It also has some inpirational writing on the back. Russells career includes one of the things Carolyn said makes the family most proud, his friendship with the late Ed Temple, who coached Tennessee State University track for 44 years and served twice as U.S. Olympic womens track coach, in 1960 and 1964. Easily done, I suppose, but on a wall plaque!? . In this famous College, when I was a very little child, I learned this very short poem, just as I wrote it here. Hi Paul, I have sent a link to a representative of the school. Before leaving for service in World War I, he entrusted his entire fortune, about $75,000 (the equivalent of around $1.4 million today), to a friend. This passage, although famous, is far from atypical, as Rice's writing tended to be of an "inspirational" or "heroic" style, raising games to the level of ancient combat and their heroes to the status of demigods. Game Called. [3], 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. Paul. But we can play so that our name, B. Downie and art by Lee Mero. They were quite loyal to each other, Carolyn said of Temple, who passed away in 2016 at age 89, and her father, who passed away in 2003 at age 96. Link >> https://www.pinterest.com/pin/487092515924974343/, Welcome to the conversation. Someone is sure to lose. Like his mentor, Russell was a Vanderbilt baseball player and graduate. He seemed to consider it all in a days work. "//securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js"; Rice chronicled a bigger moment for sports and society, the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. As Tony OReilly said: They were like The Odd Couple, Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, inseparable and enormous fun.. window.csa("Events")("setEntity", { A rent collector tackled him and threw him for a loss. Grantland Rice - Phi Delta Theta Museum Many thanks Ann. So sorry, Paul! Rice was an advocate for the emerging game of golf in the United States. When husky William took the ball beneath his brawny arm However the debate continues because the beautiful graphic styled verse that I found in my family home That was the same salary at the time as his good friend Babe Ruth. Let Courage call the signals as you keep on coming back. It inspired me to play every game the way they were meant to be played honorably, respectfully, and with intensity. 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I know nothing of the origin of this poem. interestingly this source says: Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941) More quotations on: [ Sports] Dad regularly uses this quote. With your permission Ill add it to this post plus post it on our facebook page etc. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. }, Let every games end find you still upon the battling line; It is wonderful. //]]> // ), I thought the full sportsmanship poem is a good way to kick off the new year. HE MARKS NOT THAT YOU WON OR LOST }); But through the night there shines the light, Born in Murfreesboro on November 1, 1880, Rice was one of the foremost sports authorities and respected voices during his heyday as New York's "Herald Tribune" columnist. And Chato what did that mean? var stylesheet = document.createElement("link"); Grantland Rice, Alumunus Football, Only the Brave and Other Poems (1941) seems to be credited a lot however, my old graphic letters version says Newbolt (would this be Cardinal Newbolt)? The wise old coach, Experience, came up and spoke to him. Please send photo plus any more information. The original version, which appears above on the right side of the screen, of the poem was reprinted in "The Fireside Book of Baseball" in 1956. Buzza employed some of the finest illustrators of the day such as Leo Mero, well-known Edgar Guest, Sam Foss, and Anne Campbell. [4] On the football team, he lettered in the year of 1899 as an end and averaged two injuries a year. } else { How You Played the Game: The Life of Grantland Rice (Volume 1) At least he didnt go word for word. Comments 2 - What Will Matter Henry Grantland "Granny" Rice (November 1, 1880 July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. Is the fact that you stood the test. The plot thickens. Brother Eamonn Chato ODonnell, who was the brother who did the most to establish rugby and the rugby spirit in the school, died recently, and the last two lines of this poem were cited at his memorial service by a colleague Brother Thomas ODonnell as indicative of how he lived his life. Just keep your eye upon the ball and plug on, yard by yard, This quote was on a huge poster on the wall of the mess building. Where only those can make the grade who have the Uphill Heart. thanks again. Do you, by any chance, have the full poem by Cardinal Newbolt (and year of publication)? Rice authored a book of poetry, Songs of the Stalwart, which was published in 1917 by D. Appleton and Company of New York.

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