Early 20th-century American sportswriter (1880-1954) known for his elegant prose and whose writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. He famously dubbed the great backfield of the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team the ‘Four Horsemen’ of Notre Dame. Typed poem on a sheet of 6 x 9.5 The Vinoy Park Hotel stationery, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Oscar, the king of all Oscars, G. Rice,” who signs again at the conclusion, “Grant Rice.” The poem, entitled “Odes to Oscar,” in part: “Oscar Horton, on a hunch / Ate a grey hound for lunch. / And that night—the lucky fella— / Won the season’s top quinella.” In fine condition. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder.
