Homer Grice | |
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Born | Homer Lamar Grice April 12, 1883 |
Died | May 17, 1974 | (aged 91)
Occupation(s) | English professor; preacher |
College football career | |
Mercer Bears | |
Position | Center |
Class | Graduate |
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Homer Lamar Grice (April 12, 1883 – May 17, 1974) was a college football player, English professor, Baptist preacher and first secretary of the Vacation Bible School Department at the Sunday Schoolboard, Nashville, a position held for nearly 30 years.[1]
Homer Grice was born on April 12, 1883, in Citra, Florida, to Albert Grice and Sarah Lee Bennett.
Grice was a prominent center for the Mercer Baptists football teams of Mercer University.[2] Georgia Tech player and later Hall of Fame coach Bill Alexander called Grice "the meanest and toughest guy I ever ran across on a gridiron."[2][3]
He was selected second-team All-Southern in 1911, behind Vanderbilt's unanimous selection Hugh Morgan.[4] Georgia tried to claim Grice was ineligible, to no avail.[5]
Grice was a professor of English literature at Ouachita Baptist College.[1]
Grice coached the football team of Washington High School in Washington, Georgia, in 1922 and 1923.[6][7]