About
Henry Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an American sportswriter known as the "Dean of American Sports Writers". His writing was known for its elegant prose and published in newspapers around the country, and broadcast on the radio. In 1925 he replaced Walter Camp in selecting college football All-America teams. In 1924, he nicknamed the Notre Dame backfield the "Four Horsemen". He coined the famous phrase that it was not important whether you “won or lost, but how you played the game.”