Grantland rice biography of william

(b. 1 November in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; d. 13 July 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."

Rice was born into a family whose roots in the U.S.

South dated to the Revolutionary War. He grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from Vanderbilt University in During his senior season at Vanderbilt he was the captain of the baseball team, and his slick fielding and power at the plate attracted the attention of scouts from the Nashville team of the Southern League.

However, his father forbade him from signing a professional baseball contract. Rice turned to journalism, accepting a job at the Nashville Daily News. He moved quickly to the Atlanta Journal, where he wrote about the young baseball player Ty Cobb.

In autumn he moved to the Cleveland News and stayed for a year and a half bef