Word: grantland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans of course cherish sportsmanship, which asks the loser to leap gracefully over the net and shake the hand of the man he would probably prefer to throttle. As Sportswriter Grantland Rice once put it with classic corn: "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,/ He writes?not that you won or lost? but how you played the game." Rice probably borrowed this formula from the legend that Britons play to play rather than to win. In fact, British soccer fans are notoriously sore losers, prone to riot. As for U.S. "sportsmanship," it mainly seems...
...Grantland Rice once said, "It matters not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." The game is hard, but you can't lose much if you come out for the Crimson sports competition tomorrow...
General Hershey's draft statement will hit the Crimson sports coverage especially hard. We need some eager, talented young Grantland Rices. Travel, exposure, glory. Come to the Introductory meetings next Tuesday and Wednesday...
...Grantland Rice...
...Horse racing's an opium dream beyond all dreams ever spun, Where every sad bloke in the mob should have won every race that was run. -Grantland Rice...