I should have said that The founder was: EDMUND RICE. I know these words well from my father, who himself was a great sportsman. I just read Tom Englishs No Borders which has some lovely comments by your father Jim McCarthy. How bizarre is that??? As regard Chato, it can mean many things in South American Spanish. Wow Steve this is truly intriguing. , That standard rejects those who declared war on the United States and, as Meacham pointed out, its not like the monuments are historical treasures from before the Civil War broke out. Interesting that the name Rice comes up in two contexts Edmund Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers, and Grantland Rice the sportswriter. The wise old coach, Experience, came up and spoke to him. (Augusta National / Getty Images). For when the one great scorer comes home beyond the silent hill. He hung it in our home in the 60s, and when Dad died in 2007, at age 86, it was here in his house. But one day, when across the Field of Fame the goal seemed dim, 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. I have a Buzza Motto "Playing The Game" poem credited to J. I found these beautiful words in my parents house in Dublin, Ireland. According to an exerpt from http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu Youll find the road is long and rough, with soft spots far apart, Meanwhile, does anyone know, for sure, who wrote these words? FYI I just posted a link to a video of an American basketball player Chris Herren, ex pro and recovering addict, and one who sees what sport is all about fun. ~ Paul. } Providing PROvision for all your mortgage loans and home loan needs! An ignorant man follows public opinion." Grantland Rice tags: decision , decision-making , decisions 5 likes Like "The flame of the inn is dim tonight, Too many vacant chairs. Thanks again. Play Up! Here is a poem given to Dutch Tennis Star Tom Okker by his mother on his first trip to Australia in 1964. whatever the game and whatever the odds init: function() { } [20] It operated for a little more than four years until being shuttered by ESPN on October 30, 2015, several months after Simmons's departure.[21]. In fact superb words. g = p.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; }, var gads = document.createElement("script"); var node = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; Someone once told me that the words were written by Robert W Service. He previously worked at The Tennessean, the Detroit Free Press and the Lansing State Journal, spending the past three years as sports columnist at The Tennessean. It has actually generated several streams of thought as I opened it up in a few different blog posts. The tag on the back said, Jacob B. Downies Playing the Game Gibson Buzza Motto cir. Your grandfather sounded like a lovely man. Perhaps you might email me the photo and Ill then post it for you. googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(true); - Grantland Rice "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game!" - Grantland Rice Comments 2 William Cyrus Howell June 24, 2022 at 5:31 am All wars are planned by old men in ante rooms apart, Who plan for greater armament and mark the battle chart, He became interested in the sport in 1909 while covering the Southern Amateur at the Nashville Golf Club. The world is but an open road-until we find, one day, node.parentNode.insertBefore(gads, node); 1 November 1880 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; d. 13 July 1954 in New York City), sportswriter who was the most powerful and far-reaching voice in U.S. sports for nearly half a century, and who first said it mattered "not that you won or lost, but how you played the game." Joe Rexrode is a senior staff writer for The Athletic covering all things Nashville and some things outside Nashville. However the debate continues because the beautiful graphic styled verse that I found in my family home I was trying to research its value and came across your group thread. So the search goes on. According to author Mark Inabinett in his 1994 work, Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s, Rice very consciously set out to make heroes of sports figures who impressed him, most notably Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange, Babe Didrikson, and Knute Rockne. Please do explore our many other stories you can search by sport or by country or insert a topic or theme like poem in the search engine box on the site and youll find some nice poems about smiling etc. That is fascinating. Please keep adding comments. But he was on his way to becoming a one-man industry movie reels, nationally syndicated columns and play by play for the first radio broadcast of a World Series game and would get a raise to $52,000 from the New York Tribune in 1925. Warm wishes to you from London. the stands are bare, the park is still. Thx again for your powerful words: The poem lives on. On the baseball team, he was captain in 1901.[4][5]. I have also got some feedback from Linkedin Sports discussion which I wil try and dig out and post here soon. ~ Paul. Bill was no quitter, so he tried a buck in higher gear, Link >> https://www.pinterest.com/pin/487092515924974343/, Welcome to the conversation. [9] He is best known for being the successor to Walter Camp in the selection of College Football All-America Teams beginning in 1925, and for being the writer who dubbed the great backfield of the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame. He writes not that you won or lost but how you played the Game, I agree with John Miles because I found this poem and it was said to be written by Grantland Rice and published in The Nashville Tennessean. Thank you. During . Thanks again. 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. Sorry for slow reply. He made significantly more money than virtually everyone he covered. This is Rices account from The Tumult and the Shouting: When I encountered Owens after that jump, back at his quarters, he was the same modest person he had always been. window.csa("Config", { Print it off. I am delighted with your information. Pass it on and see if anyone else has a clear view on it. And news writers. }()); googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || []; The winning is all up to you [12] Rice then made monthly contributions to the man's widow throughout his life.[13]. He said he had learned it as a young man when he played cricket. Scores against our name. Do we know when Rice composed his poem? If you have the book , perhaps you could take photo of the cover and also the page wit the poem & post it here (or email me paul@GreatSportsmanship.org ) . Many thanks Ann. It wont be whether we won or lost, The picture above poem is the cottage in a wreath of embroidered flowers, This was in my grand parents home in New Brunswick Canada. Across the field of play the dusk has come, the hour is late. Stella Maris is where the boys in the 1972 Andes accident went to school, and it is that spirit that helped them survive the 72 days on the mountain. Many thanks. In the 1920s at the height of their business, The Buzza Co. produced their finest work. googletag.pubads().enableAsyncRendering(); 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 ue_t0=window.ue_t0||+new Date(); var e = document.createElement("script"); e.src = "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41mrkPcyPwL.js"; document.head.appendChild(e); gads.async = true; googletag.pubads().setTargeting("surface", "mw"); }, 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. it is very old, and hung on my grandmothers wall when my father was a child. Afterwards he obtained a series of prestigious jobs with major newspapers in the northeastern United States. First, Vanderbilt; second, Sewanee, a mighty good second;" and that Aubrey Lanier "came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts. I am 80 years old and have a framed wall poem by They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below. [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. 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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. Not so with William in his dreams he saw the Field of Fame, Rice published a book of poetry, "Songs of the Stalwart" published in 1917 which contained some of his famous poetic recollections of sports heroes, as well as non-sports related poetry. This is intriguing. if (window.csa) { Anyone ever heard of Douglas DeLong or DeLorry..I believe he was a friend of Rice, Walt Mason and DeWolf Hopper. Rugby Union, as introduced by the Irish Christian brothers to Stella Maris was and is an integral part of building character. But how we played the game. Henry Grantland Rice was born in 1880 in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and opted for journalism after graduating from Vanderbilt in 1901 and playing for the Vanderbilt baseball and football teams. Certain steroids, used properly, can cure certain diseases." (Canseco 3). The fight is done and lost or won, the player files out through the gate. Your poem is beautiful and still inspires you, I suspect. Ann, thank you for sending this. function getCookieWithoutJQuery(name) { My poor Grandmashe raised those boys by herself during the depression. Gwen thank you so much for this information. I dont remember what she said about how she knew this poem by memory. Soon after, they were. There are lines like this, from his book, amid the celebration of Owens and what he achieved: During that first week of August 1936, the Berlin weather was cold and rainy hardly the weather that Owens would have chosen, for Negroes generally function best in intense heat., Its a jarring utterance of an ugly stereotype, not unlike this line from a chapter on Jim Thorpe: The Indian is a great natural athlete. The Fullback Disappointment steered his features in sod. Poems by Thayer, Rice and Walt Mason. Economics, changing times and a faster pace of living, all led to the demise of this charming custom. Coincidentally, I spoke in Notre Dame and we now have a great alliance. "ObfuscatedMarketplaceId": "A1PQBFHBHS6YH1" They are best filled with a balanced account, rather than the flowery acclaim he favored. Sorry to jump in here. The full poem is here: 1979).. Please send me a photo of the plaque. I see that Tabor was a well known calligrapher. Where only those can make the grade who have the Uphill Heart. The gym and the elementary school were demolished years ago. It just gets more intriguing all the time. Keep coming back There we learned the English language, Religion, and all the other signatures. Marty very well said. Thank you so much for sending this in. 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. Thanks very much for the information. Rice was posthumously awarded the 1966 J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Grantland Rice on tel/mic, c. 1920. 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. interestingly this source says: And If You Play Golf You're My Friend Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake . and taps has called the end of play. I ask because I came across 5 pages of hand typed poetry edited by a Douglas Delong, Aug. 10, 1943. //. During Rices time with the Atlanta Journal, Ty Cobb actually sent him postcards, posing as fans who were gushing about Cobb and encouraging Rice to write about him. if(cookiePair[0] === name) { Poetic verse was a significant part of the craft at the time, and Rices poem Alumnus Football, written for a Vanderbilt alumni gathering and printed in The Tennessean in 1908, included a line that has been shortened and repeated by a billion adults to a billion young athletes: For when the one Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks not that you won or lost but how you played the game.. Source: "Grantland Rice Award Established in Football", 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, "Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball", "Crowning the King: Grantland Rice and Bobby Jones", "Cadets Prove No Match for Speedy Backs: Miller, Layden, Crowley, and Stuhldreher Form Greatest Backfield", "Grantland Rice National Championship Trophy", http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Admissions/Archive02262007/07RussellRice.pdf, "Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame/ Inductees", All-Star Roster of Writers and Editors to Join New ESPN Web Site, "ESPN Statement Regarding Grantland - ESPN MediaZone U.S.", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grantland_Rice&oldid=1135518744, This page was last edited on 25 January 2023, at 04:08. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. and will invite anyone to send more information. Robert, thank you very much for this new angle to this discussion which has been going on for a few years on this site (see also other discussion for an additional discussion). It believe in this instance it means flat referring to his flat face. I am not sure how we can clarify who wrote this beautiful verse and/or poem. Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941) More quotations on: [ Sports] Best wishes, Paul, John, thank you so much. Only two things count at all from mountain to the sea Steroids seems to be what he really . The Grantland Rice Bowl, a college bowl game named in his honor, was played from 1964 to 1977. It was not his first golf event, but it was the one that seemed to pull him toward the game.[8]. 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. return true; The founder of the congregation of the Christian Brothers was not Cardinal Newman. (Cardenal Newman) The tumult dies, the cheer is hushed, the stands are bare, the park is still. When he wound up his college course each students heart was sore. 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 praised the inclusion of black athletes in major professional sports and wrote about women in sports with the respect many of his colleagues did not. try { The name Newbolt is below the poem and the illustrator is at bottom left by Alan Tabor of Manchester. Oh Boy, he said, the main point now before you win your bout Post a comment. To make your eternal bed, In todays terms, theres never been and will never be a sportswriter more rich, famous, prolific, impactful or tight with the sporting heroes of a time.