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. |