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...last year or so, the sport pages have, as have the undergraduates themselves, taken an increasingly sane attitude about college athletics. Grantland Rice's paragraphs, reprinted in an adjoining column and typical of this happy change, deserve consideration here at Harvard. Moreover, if all of Mr. Rice's facts are true, more than mere consideration is demanded...
...will come in useful in later years, games that he will play through the greater part of his life. It seems to be a mistake to give all of one's time and attention to games that come to an end when one is twenty-one or twenty-two. --Grantland Rice in the N. Y. Herald Tribune...
Captain-elect B. H. Ticknor '31 has been selected by Grantland Rice as center on his All-American Football Team. Grantland Rice, who is the logical successor to Walter Camp, is foremost in the United States of the many who have picked mythical elevens this year. Ticknor beat out Heinecke of Stanford for the position, and he would not have done so except for his weight advantage of twenty pounds and his superior speed...
...Hickok, one half of Yale's famous end combination of Hickok and Barres. After observing this pair go down under punts and play a bang up game against both Dartmouth and Princeton, Grantland Rice called them the best set of ends in the whole country. They will have to travel at top speed today, however, to outshine a brilliant Crimson end squad...
...Theodore Roosevelt the younger, hunting in Asia, grew a beard, as revealed in photographs brought home by his brother Kermit. Also, he wrote a 64-line religious poem, roughly approximating the Kipling manner, sent it to Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who published it in full on July 4 in his syndicated "Sportlight." Excerpts...