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DIED. James H. ("Sleepy Jim") Crowley, 83, last of the great "Four Horsemen" backfield that led Notre Dame to a 19-1 record in the 1923-24 seasons; in Scranton, Pa. The small (160 lbs.), swift Crowley was immortalized with his teammates by Sportswriter Grantland Rice: "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...
...high school journalism, Ledecky was awarded the Fred Russel-Grantland Rice Scholarship, a full ride to Vanderbilt University. While Ledecky was thrilled “because the finances were still tight,” he says his father...
...Grantland Rice, the dean of American sportswriters, wrote a poem entitled “Alumnus Football,” and from this poem the mother of all sports clichés was born...
...Following the retirement of Don King, the sweet science will enjoy a soul-stirring comeback, a Periclean Age of noble warriors who fight monthly, only against worthy opponents and always on free television. At weigh-ins, the combatants salute each other by reciting, from memory, quatrains about sportsmanship by Grantland Rice...
...used to envy Grantland Rice. Part of my jealousy had to do with the desire to write phrases like "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky..." But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and '30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, Red Grange, the Brown Bomber, the Four Horsemen and the Four Musketeers...