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The Grantland Rice Bowl was an annual college football bowl game held from 1964 through 1977. The game originated as an NCAA College Division regional final, then became a playoff game for Division II. It was named in honor of Grantland Rice, an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose, and was originally played in ...
Grantland Rice, sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune, gave the foursome football immortality. [3] After Notre Dame's 13–7 upset victory over a strong Army team, on October 18, 1924, Rice penned "the most famous football lede of all-time": [4] [5] Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again.
Grantland Rice's Sportlights ad in Exhibitor's Trade Review (Nov 1924–Feb 1925). In 1907, Rice saw what he would call the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports during the Sewanee–Vanderbilt football game: the catch by Vanderbilt center Stein Stone, on a double-pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to set up the touchdown run by Honus Craig that ...
1948 game was the first inter-racial college bowl game Furniture Bowl [44] 1950 Martinsville, Virginia: Maryland State Hawks vs. Bluefield State Big Blues: Glass Bowl: 1946–1949 Toledo, Ohio: Hosted by University of Toledo: Golden Isles Bowl 1962 Brunswick, Georgia: McNeese State University vs. Samford University: Grantland Rice Bowl: 1964–1972
Red Grange. Harold Edward " Red " Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed " the Galloping Ghost " and " the Wheaton Iceman ", was an American professional football halfback who played for the Chicago Bears and the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League (NFL).
1970 >. The 1969 Grantland Rice Bowl was an NCAA College Division game following the 1969 season, between the East Tennessee State Buccaneers and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. [2] This was the first time that the Grantland Rice Bowl was played in Baton Rouge, Louisiana – prior games had been played in Murfreesboro, Tennessee .
Rankings from AP Poll. The 1960 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1960 college football season. In their fourteenth season under head coach Johnny Vaught, the Rebels compiled a 10–0–1 record and won their fourth Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship. Their only blemish was a 6–6 tie ...
The 1924 game between the schools, a Notre Dame victory at the Polo Grounds, was the game at which sportswriter Grantland Rice christened the Fighting Irish backfield—quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, halfbacks Jim Crowley and Don Miller, and fullback Elmer Layden – the "Four Horsemen."