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date: 17 February 2025

Grantland Rice 1880–1954
American sports writer 

  1. 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.
     
    ‘Alumnus Football’ (1941)
  2. Outlined against a blue-grey October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again…They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone.
    report of football match between US Military Academy at West Point NY and University of Notre Dame
    in New York Tribune 19 October 1924