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Homer Grice

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]

1. ^ ^{a b} "Homer Lamar Grice Papers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 14, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2015.

^ ^{a b} Robert E. Wilder (2011). Gridiron Glory Days: Football at Mercer, 1892 –1942. p. 22. ISBN 9780881462678. Retrieved March 11, 2015 – via Google books.

^ "Heisman Picks 5 Commodores On His All-Southern Eleven". Atlanta Constitution. December 3, 1911. p. 1. Retrieved March 10, 2015.

^ John F. Stegeman (September 1, 1997). The Ghosts of Herty Field: Early Days on a Southern Gridiron. p. 101. ISBN 9780820319599. Retrieved March 11, 2015 – via Google books.

^ Robert Marion Willingham (2000). Washington, Georgia. p. 86. ISBN 9780738505718. Retrieved March 11, 2015 – via Google books.

^ "Lanier Given Fine Battles". Atlanta Constitution. January 4, 1923. p. 9. Retrieved March 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.