Grantland Rice Papers
Scope and Content Note
The Papers of Grantland Rice (1905-1966) are comprised of 19.26 linear feet and include his Writings, Correspondence, Personal and Biographical Materials, Photographs, Subject Files, Souvenirs, and Memorabilia.
Dates
- Creation: 1905 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access
The physical materials from this collection may be viewed only in the reading room of Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives. Materials should be requested two to three days in advance to facilitate easier access. Contact specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu to schedule an appointment.
Biography
Grantland Rice (1880-1954), son of Bolling H. and Beulah Grantland Rice, was born on 1 November 1880 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Educated at Vanderbilt University, he went to work as a reporter for the Nashville News in 1901. He also worked at Forester Magazine (1901), the Atlanta Journal (1902-1904), the Cleveland News (1905), the Nashville Tennessean (1906-1910), the New York Mail (1911-1914), and the New York Tribune (1914-1930). Rice married Katherine Hollis in 1906, and they had a daughter, Florence Davenport. In 1918 and 1919 Rice served as First Lieutenant with 115th Regiment F.A., 30th Division, U.S. Army with the American Expeditionary Force in France. In 1930, his column "The Sportlight" became nationally syndicated and ran until his death in 1954. Rice was also the author of “Songs of the Stalwart” (1917), “Sportlights of 1923”, “Sportlights of 1924”, “Songs of the Open” (1924), and “Only the Brave” (1941). Rice died in New York City on 13 July 1954.
Full Extent
43.66 Linear Feet (28 letter Hollingers, 5 legal Hollingers, 2 Paige boxes, 1 letter half-Hollinger, 1 tall letter Hollinger, 6 oversize boxes, 7 oversize folders)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Grantland Rice Papers, 1905-1966, consist of correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and other materials of sports journalist, Grantland Rice, 1880-1954.
Bibliography
Index to Photographs of Famous Athletes and Sportsmen
Adair, Perry -- see Maiden
Adams, Ben and Platt
Attell, Abe -- see also J. Johnson
Baer, Max (4)
Baker, Hobey
Baker, Home Run -- see Collins
Barrett, Major
Barry, Jack -- see Collins
Berry, ---- (Penn.)
Berwanger, Jay
Bicycles, high-wheeled -- see also Spier
Bonthron, Bill -- see also Cunningham, Lovelock
Booth, A.J. (Albie) (13)
Braid, James -- see Vardon
Bunion Derby
Brady, ------- see Colrick
Bresnahan, Roger
Brookes, Norman
Brown, Mordicai (3-fingered)
Browne, Mary K.
Bundy, May Sutton (2)
Burgess, ---- -- see Ederle
Burns, Tommy --see J. Johnson, McGraw, Sullivan
Cagle, Chris (2)
Caldwell, Bruce
Camp, W.
Cantfield, ----
Camera,------ see Baer
Carpentier, Georges -- see Dempsey, Gibbons
Carr, Billy
Cavalcade (horse) (3) -- see also High Quest
Chance, Frank
Charleigh (horse) -- see Sande
Chase, Hal
Cheape,.. Capt. ---- see Barrett
Cicotte, N.
Cobb, Ty
Coffruth, Jim -- see J. Johnson, Sullivan
Collett (Vare), Glenna ---- see also Wethered
Collins, Eddie (3)
Colrick, ---- (Notre Dame)
Corbett, James J. (2) -- see also Fitzsimmons, McGovern, Sullivan
Coulon, Johnny
Coy, Ted
Craig, Ralf
Craig, ------- see Drew
Criqui, Eugene (4)
Croker, Richard -- see Dorondo
Crowley, James -- see Stuhldreher
Cunningham,----
Curtis, Harriet
Dann, Jesse -- see Stagg
Dean, Dizzy (12)
Dempsey, Jack (7)
Didrikson, Babe (2)
Discovery (horse) -- see also Cavalcade, High Quest
Dixon, Captain
Dorondo (2)
Drew, H. P. (2)
Duffy, Arthur F. (2) Duncan, J.
Eby, ---- (Ohio State)
Eckersall, Walter
Ederle, Gertrude (5)
Egan, H. Chandler
Elder, Jack (Notre Dame)
Endeavor (yacht) -- see Rainbow
Equipoise (horse) (7)
Espinosa, Romie -- see Speaker
Evans, Chick -- see Ouimet
Evers, Johnny (6)
Ewry,----(1903)
Faireno (horse) -- see Equipoise
Firpo, Luis Angel -- see Dempsey
Fitzpatrick, Keene
Fitzsimmons, Bob (2) -- see also Sullivan
Ford, Henry -- see Oldfield
Foxx, Jimmy
Frentrup, ---- (Stanford) (2)
Frisch, Frank (2)
Gallant Fox (horse) -- see Sande
Gallant Sir (horse) -- see Equipoise
Gans, Joe (2)
Garner, Mack -- see Cavalcade
Geers, Edward "Pop" (2)
Gehrig, Lou (19)
Giants (N. Y.), l8 see Murtrie
Gibbons, Tom (4)
Gill,----(Calif.)
Gillon, Stier -- see Sweetser
Gipp, George
Gleason, ---- -- see McGraw
Golf (ladies, 1900)
Gotch, Frank -- see Sullivan
Gottlieb, Beatrice
Goulding, George H.
Gowdy, Hank (3) -- see also Maranville
Grange, Red (7)
Grant, Alex (1903) (2)
Greb, Harry
Groh, Heinie -- see also Collins
Grove, Lefty
Hadagel (horse) -- see Cavalcade
Hagen, Walter (2)
Haley, ------- see Villa
Hanagan, ---- (1903)
Hanlon, ----- -- see McGraw
Hanson, Vic -- see Oosterbaan
Hardwick, H. R.
Harmon, Joseph -- see Stuhldreher
Harvey, Charlie -- see Attell
Haughton, Percy
Hayes, Johnny -- see Dorondo
Herd, Sandy ------ see Vardon
Herzog, George
Heston, Willie (Michigan, 1903)
Heston, ---- (Michigan) (2)
High Quest (horse)
Hillman, Harry
Hilton, Harry (4)
Hinkey, Frank
Hockey, field (ladies)
Hoffer, ------- see McGraw
Hogan, Catherine Francis -- see Walsh
Hogan, Frank -- see Maranville
Hoppe, Willie (7)
Horgan, ---- (1903)
Hornsby, Rogers (6)
Hurd, Mrs. J. V.
Hutcherson, Jack
Hyland, Dick (Stanford)
Iselin, Olive -- see Vanderbilt
Jackson, Col. A. N. Strade
Jackson, Joe
Jackson, Peter
Jacobs, Helen
Jacques, Herbert -- see Van Wie
James J. Jeffries -- see also Corbett, J. Johnson
Hughey Jennings (2) -- see also McGraw
Johnson, Jack (4)
Johnson, Walter
Johnston, William M.
Jones, Bobby (2) -- see also Maiden
Jones, John Paul (2)
Jordan, Baxter B. -- see Maranville
Jordan, Billy -- see Sullivan
Kaufman, ---- -- see Meredith
Keek,----(Princeton)
Keeler, Willie (3) -- see also McGraw
Kelley, Joe -- see McGraw
Kelly, D. J.
Kennedy, Bill -- see McGraw
Ketcheli, Stanley (2) -- see also J. Johnson, Sullivan
Kilbane, Johnny
King, Flora
Kizer, Noble -- see Stuhldreher
Kolehmainen, Willie (2)
Kraenzlein, A. C.
Lajoie, Larry (2)
Layden, Elmer -- see Stuhldreher
Lenglen, Suzanne (4)
Lennon, ---- -- see Meredith
Little, Lawson (4)
Little, George -- see J. Johnson
Lockett, Capt. -- see Barrett
Longboat, Tom
Lotshaw, Andy -- see Grange
Loughran, Tommy -- see Baer
Lovelock, Jack (2)
Mace, Jem
Mack, Connie (2)
Manon, Ed (4)
Maiden, Stewart
Mallory, Molla B. (3)
Mangum, Leo A. -- see Maranville
Man o' War (horse)
Maranville, Walter "Rabbit" (9)
Marquard, Rube (3)
Mathewson, Christy (4) -- see also McGraw
Matsuyama, Kinrey -- see Hoppe
Maxwell, Tiny
McCarthy, Joe -- see Gehrig
McCoy, Kid
McCracken, ---- (1903) (2)
McCurdy, ---- (Carnegie Tech)
McDonald, Pat
McGovern, Terry (2) -- see also Corbett
McGrath, Matt
McGraw, John J. (12)
Mclnnis, Stuffy -- see Collins
Mclntosh, ft-ugh -- see Sullivan
McLariner, Jimmy
McLoughlin, Maurice (2)
Meany, Helen (5) -- see also Weismuller
Medwick, Joe (2)
Meredith, Ted (5)
Merkle, Fred
Meyers, Big Chief -- see Thorpe
Milburn, Devereux -- see also Whitney
Miller, Don -- see Stuhldreher
Mitchell, Charley
Mohler, ------- see Shaver
Moody, Helen Wills (3)
Moran, Owen -- see Adams
Moran, Pat -- see Evers
Morgan, Cy
Moullon, --- see Duffy
Mr. Khayyam (horse) -- see Equipoise
Muller, Brick
Murphy, Tommy -- see McGraw
Murtrie, Jim
Myers, ---- (Brooklyn)
Nelson, Battling see Gans
Nevers, Ernie -- see Warner
Oakley, Annie (2)
O'Connor, Peter
O'Donnall, Earl -- see Grange
Oldfield, Barney (2)
Oler,----(Yale)
Oliphant, Elmer (Army) (5)
Oosterbaan, Bennie (4)
Ouimet, Francis (2)
Overton, John
Owen,----(Harvard)
Owen, Marvin -- see Medwick
Pekinpaugh, Roger
Penner, Joe -- see Dean
Perry, Fred
Peterson, Charles -- see Hoppe
Phipp, Anita
Plank, Eddie
Putnam, ---- (Harvard)
Rainbow (yacht) (2)
Ramsay, H. H.
Rawlings, Horace
Reigels, Roy
Resolute (yacht)
Rickard, Tex -- see J. Johnson
Rivers, Joe -- see A. Wolgast
Robertson, ---- -- see Sheppard
Robinson, ---- -- see McGraw
Rockne, Knute
Ruth, Babe (3) -- see also Gehrig
Sande, Earl (6)
Schaefer, Jake -- see Hoppe
Scheck, ---- (Harvard, 1903)
Scherk, ---- see Duffy
Schmeling, Max -- see Baer
Scudder, ---- -- see Meredith
Selby, Norman -- see McCoy
Serviss, G. P. (1903)
Sewell, ------- see Ruth
Shamrock IV (yacht) -- see Resolute
Sharkey, Tom -- see also Jeffries, Sullivan
Shaver, ----
Sheppard, Mel W. (2)
Sheridan, Martin (2)
Shibe, Thomas S. -- see Mack
Singing Wood (horse) -- see Cavalcade
Sloan, Tod (2)
Smith, Alex -- see Collett, W. Smith
Smith, Andy
Smith, Bob -- see Cavalcade
Smith, Willie, Alex, Mama, George, Papa, Jim, and McDonald
Speaker, Tris -- see also Van Wie
Spier, S. C.
Springsteel (horse) -- see Equipoise
Stagg, Amos Alonzo (6)
Stallings, George -- see Evers
Stirling, Alexa -- see Maiden
Stoddard, Louis -- see Whitney
Stuhldreher, Harry (2)
Suer, Winifred -- see Moody
Sullivan, John L. (3)
Sweetser, George -- see J. Sweetser
Sweetser, Jess
Taft, William Howard
Tappan, ---- (U.S.C.)
Taylor, ----
Taylor, J. H. -- see Vardon
Tennis, l880's
Terry, Bill -- see McGraw
Tewkesbury, ---- (1903)
Thomas, ---- -- see Mack
Thomas, Ira -- see Evers
Thomson, Earl
Thornhill, ------- see Warner
Thorpe, Jim (2)
Tilden, Bill
Tinker, Joe
Titus, C. D.
Travers, Jerome D. (4)
Tomkinson, Capt. -- see Barrett
Travis, Walter J. -- see also Travers, Vardon
Tunney, Gene -- see Dempsey, Gibbons
Vanderbilt, Alfred G.
Van Wie, Virginia (4)
Vardon, Harry (3)
Vare, Glenna Collett -- see Collett
Vaughan, Arky
Venzke, ---- -- see Cunningham
Vernon, Bob -- see J. Johnson
Villa, Pancho -- see also McLariner
Waddell, Rube
Wallace, James -- see Little
Wallach, Mrs. Barger (2)
Walsh, Ed (9)
Warner, Pop
Waterbury, Larry -- see Whitney
Waterbury, Monty -- see Whitney
Weibel, John -- see Stuhldreher
Weismuller, Johnny (13)
Wells, Billy -- see Coulon
Welsh, Jack -- see Attell
Weston, Edward P.
Wethered, Joyce (8)
Whigham, H. J.
White, Charley
Whitney, Harry Payne (2)
Wilde, Jimmy -- see Villa
Wilding, Anthony F--
Willard, Jess -- see Dempsey
Williams, Richard Norris
Wills, Helen -- see Moody
Wolgast, ---- (Illinois)
Wolgast, Ad (4)
Wood, W. Barry, Jr.
Woodward, William -- see Sande
Wright, George (8)
Young, Cy
Cunningham, Glenn -- see Bonthron
Garner, Mack -- see Cavalcade
Jones, R. -- see High Quest
Jorgens, Arndt -- see Gehrig
Photographs of Famous Athletes and Sportsmen--by Sport:
Auto racing: Herzog, Oldfield.
Baseball: H.R. Baker, Bresnahan, M. Brown, Camp, Chance, Chase, Cicotte, Cobb, Collins, Dann, Dean, Evers, Foxx, Frisch, Fowdy, Groh, Grove, Hanson, Hardwick, Hornsby, J. Jackson, Jennings, W. Johnson, Jorgens, Keeler, Kelley, Lajoie, Mack, Maranville, Marquard, Mathewson, McCarthy, McGraw, Mclnnis, Medwick, Merkle, P. Moran, Murphy, Morgan, Murtrie, Myers, Oosterbaan, Owen, Pekinpaugh, Plank, Ruth, Speaker, Stagg, Terry, Thomas, I. Thomas, Thorpe, Tinker, Vaughan, Waddell, Walsh, Young.
Billiards: Hoppe, Matsuyama, Schaefer.
Boxing: Attell, Baer, Burns, Camera, Carpentier, Coffroth, Corbett, Coulon, Criqui, Dempsey, Firpo, Fitzsimmons, Gans, Gibbons, Greb, P. Jackson, Jeffries, J. Johnson, Ketchel, Kilbane, Loughran, Mace, McCoy, McGovern, McLariner, Mitchell, 0. Moran, Nelson, Schmeling, Sharkey, Sullivan, Tunney, Villa, Wells, White, Wilde, Willard, A. Wolgast.
Cycling: Bicycles, high-wheeled; Spier.
Football: H. Baker, Berwanger, Booth, Brady, Cagle, Colrick, Coy, Crowley, Eby, Eckersall, Elder, Frentrupp, Gill, Gipp, Grange, Hanson, Harmon, Heston, Hyland, Keck, Kizer, Layden, Mahan, McCurdy, Miller, Mohler, Muller, Nevers, Oliphant, Oosterbaan, Owen, Putnam, Reigels, Rockne, Shaver, Stagg, Stuhldreher, Tappan, Thornhill, Thorpe, Warner, Weibel, Wolgast, Wood.
Golf: Adair, Braid, Collett, Curtis, Egan, Espinosa, Evans, golf 1900, Gillon, Gottlieb, Hagen, Herd, Hilton, Hogan, Hurd, Hutcherson, Jacques, B. Jones, King, Little, Maiden, Ouimet, Phipp, Ramsay, Rawlings, A. Smith, Smith family, Stirling, Sweetser, Taft, Travers, Travis, Van Wie, Vardon, Vare, Wallace, Walsh, Wethered, Whigham, Wright.
Hockey: field hockey, ladies.
Horse racing: Cavalcade, Charleigh, Discovery, Equipoise, Faireno, Gallant Fox, Gallant Sir, Garner, Geers (harness racing), Hadagal, High Quest, Iselin (coaching), R. Jones, Man o' War, Mr. Khayyam, Sande, Singing Wood, Sloan, B. Smith, Spring-steel, Vanderbilt (coaching).
Marksmanship: Oakley.
Polo: Barnett, Cheape, Lockett, Milburn, Tompkinson, Whitney, Waterbury.
Rowing: Titus.
Sailing: Endeavor, Rainbow, Resolute, Shamrock IV.
Swimming: Ederle, Meany, Weismuller.
Track and field: Adaras, Berry (penth.), Bonthron (1500 m.), Cantfield (high jump), Garr, Craig (100-200 m.), Cunningham (1500 ra.), Didrikson, Dorondo (marathon), Drew (100 m.), Duffy (100 yds.), Duncan (discus), Ewry, Grant, Hanagan (hammer), Hayes (marathon), Hillman (hurdles), Horgan (shotput), J. P. Jones (mile), Kaufman (relay), Kelly (hurdles), Kolehmainen, Kraenzlain, Lennon (relay), Longboat (marathon), Lovelock (mile), McCracken (shotput), McDonald (hammer), McGrath (hammer), Meredith (MfO yds., relay), O'Connor, Oler (high jump), Overton, Scheck, Scudder (relay), Serviss, Sheppard (600yds.), Sheridan (discus), Taylor, Tewkesbury, Thomson (hurdles), Venzke (1500 m.).
Tennis: Brookes, Browne, Bundy, Jacobs, Johnstone, Lenglen, Mallory (Bjurstedt), McLoughlin, Perry, tennis l88o's, Tilden, 'Wallach, Wilding, Williams.
Walking: Bunion Derby, Dixon (on tightrope across Niagara Falls), Goulding, Weston.
Wrestling: Gotch.
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