Description: DATE OF ** ORIGINAL ** ADVERTISEMENT: 1927COMPANY NAME: FARMERS LOAN TRUST COMPANY PRODUCT(S): FREE BOTTOM CRAFT, WHISTLERCITY / TOWN-STATE: NEW YORK OWNER: -ENDORSER:- ARTIST: -THEME: BOAT NAUTICAL KEYWORDS (TEXT & IMAGE): BOAT, NAUTICAL, YACHT, SPORT, MARINE, WATER, FISH, SEA, OCEAN, WOOD, WOODY, ENGINE, MOTOR, OUTBOARD, INBOARD, CRUISER, SHIP, RUNABOUT, RACE, LUXURY, TRAVEL, RECREATION, AGENT, US NAVY, CURTIS, WHISTLER FROM GRANTLAND RICE, SPOTLIGHT FILM Henry Grantland "Granny" Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. Early years[edit] Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the son of Bolling Hendon Rice, a cotton dealer,[1] and Mary Beulah (Grantland) Rice.[2] His grandfather Major H. W. Rice was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War.[3] A young Rice at Vanderbilt Rice attended Montgomery Bell Academy and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he was a member of the football team for three years, a shortstop on the baseball team, a brother in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and graduated with a BA degree in 1901 in classics.[4] On the football team, he lettered in the year of 1899 as an end and averaged two injuries a year. On the baseball team, he was captain in 1901.[4][5] Sportswriter[edit] 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 beat Sewanee at the very end for the SIAA championship.[6] Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin in Spalding's Football Guide's summation of the season in the SIAA wrote, "The standing. First, Vanderbilt; second, Sewanee, a mighty good second;" and that Aubrey Lanier "came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts."[7] Rice coached the 1908 Vanderbilt baseball team. Cartoon by Grantland Rice & Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling in the New York Tribune of September 28, 1919 Rice was an advocate for the emerging game of golf in the United States. He became interested in the sport in 1909 while covering the Southern Amateur at the Nashville Golf Club. It was not his first golf event, but it was the one that seemed to pull him toward the game.[8] After taking early jobs with the Atlanta Journal and the Cleveland News, he later became a sportswriter for the Nashville Tennessean. The job at the Tennessean was given to him by former Sewanee Tigers coach Billy Suter, who coached baseball teams against which Rice played while at Vanderbilt. Afterwards he obtained a series of prestigious jobs with major newspapers in the northeastern United States. In 1914 he began his Sportlight column in the New York Tribune. He also provided monthly Grantland Rice Sportlights as part of Paramount newsreels from 1925 to 1954.[9] He is best known for being the successor to Walter Camp in the selection of College Football All-America Teams beginning in 1925, and for being the writer who dubbed the great backfield of the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame. A Biblical reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, this famous account was published in the New York Herald Tribune on October 18, describing the Notre Dame vs. Army game played at the Polo Grounds in New York City: Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below.[10] —?Grantland Rice, October 18, 1924[10] Grantland Rice Sportlights ad in Motion Picture News, 1926 The passage added great import to the event described and elevated it to a level far beyond that of a mere football game. This passage, although famous, is far from atypical, as Rice's writing tended to be of an "inspirational" or "heroic" style, raising games to the level of ancient combat and their heroes to the status of demigods. He became even better known after his columns were nationally syndicated beginning in 1930, and became known as the "Dean of American Sports Writers". He and his writing are among the reasons that the 1920s in the United States are sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age of Sports". Rice's all-time All-America backfield was Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Ken Strong, and Ernie Nevers.[11] His sense of honor can be seen in his own actions. Before leaving for service in World War I, he entrusted his entire fortune, about $75,000 (the equivalent of around $1.4 million today), to a friend. On his return from the war, Rice discovered that his friend had lost all the money in bad investments, and then had committed suicide. Rice accepted the blame for putting "that much temptation" in his friend's way.[12] Rice then made monthly contributions to the man's widow throughout his life.[13] According to author Mark Inabinett in his 1994 work, Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s, Rice very consciously set out to make heroes of sports figures who impressed him, most notably Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange, Babe Didrikson, and Knute Rockne. Unlike many writers of his era, Rice defended the right of football players such as Grange, and tennis players such as Tilden, to make a living as professionals, but he also decried the warping influence of big money in sports, once writing in his column: Money to the left of them and money to the rightMoney everywhere they turn from morning to the nightOnly two things count at all from mountain to the seaPart of it's percentage, and the rest is guarantee Rice authored a book of poetry, Songs of the Stalwart, which was published in 1917 by D. Appleton and Company of New York. DATE PRINTED ON ITEM: YES ADVERT SIZE: APPROX- 8-1/2" x 12" ITEM GRADE: VERY GOOD CONDITION: CLEAN, PERFECT FOR FRAMING AND DISPLAYING. DESCRIPTION OF ITEM: A GREAT VINTAGE ORIGINAL ADVERTISEMENT FOR A HISTORICAL COMPANY AND/OR PRODUCT. ADVERTS ARE CAREFULLY REMOVED FROM MAGAZINE AND MAY BE TRIMMED IN PREPARATION FOR DISPLAYING. 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