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New Year – Old Poem – Great Sport

As it’s the start of a new year (not a new decade – isn’t that next year?), I thought the full sportsmanship poem is a good way to kick off the new year.                     Print it off. Pass it on.   Let young and old read [...]

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Not that You Won or Lost but How You Played The Game

I found these beautiful words in my parents house in Dublin, Ireland. Who wrote these words? Does anyone know who wrote this? Grantland Rice, Alumunus Football, Only the Brave and Other Poems (1941) seems to be credited a lot however, my old graphic letters version says Newbolt (would this be Cardinal Newbolt)? I’ll post the [...]

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