英语词汇it-s how you played the game的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	it-s how you played the game
词源	It’s how you played the game. Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who coined the term the four horsemen to describe Notre Dame’s famous backfield in an account of a Notre Dame–Army game (“Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again . . .”) is also responsible for it’s how you played the game. The much-loved writer, who died in 1954 at the age of 73, first used the expression in a poem he published in one of his “The Sportlight” columns: 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.
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