The 1924 college football showdown between Notre Dame and Army at the Polo Grounds in New York was the latest "Game of the Century." The great sportswriter, Grantland Rice was there to cover the game for his New York newspaper. His article the next day game became a classic, not just in sports reporting, but in literature. Listen to it word for word and see why this piece of journalism etched Grantland Rice's name into American history.
Grantland Rice takes sportswriting to another level. He brings a story about a football game to the literary world. A massive college game and four Notre Dame players achieve legendary statues in one day thanks to Rice and his beautiful description of the events that happened before him on a Saturday in October at the Polo Grounds in New York. The stadium is gone now, so are the players, so is the newspaper Rice was writing for, but the story he wrote lives on in the halls of college football history.