Grantland Rice
American sportswriter (1880-1954) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 73
Henry Grantland Rice was an American sportswriter, columnist, and poet from Tennessee known as the "Dean of American Sports Writers". He published three books of poetry, and coined the famous phrase that it was not important whether you “won or lost, but how you played the game.”
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Lived 1880 to 1954 · aged 73
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