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.

Grantland Rice

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Topic

Fair play Legacy Death

Author

Grantland Rice

Source

Alumnus Football

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Journalist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Rice, Grantland. "Alumnus Football." Nashville Tennessean, c. 1908.

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