"The Four Horsemen"

Newspaper article

By: Grantland Rice

Date: October 19, 1924

Source: Rice, Grantland. "The Four Horsemen." New York Herald-Tribune, October 19, 1924. Available online at http://lamb.archives.nd.edu/rockne/rice.html; website home page: http://lamb.archives.nd.edu (accessed April 24, 2003).

About the Author: Henry Grantland Rice (1880–1954), from an early age, exhibited both a love of sport and a gift for language. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, Rice began reporting stints at several metropolitan dailies before gaining a nationally syndicated column at the New York Tribune in 1914. As the nation's most influential sports journalist, he selected the All-American football team for Collier's magazine from 1925 until shortly before his death. As a...

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