Homer Grice
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Homer Lamar Grice April 12, 1883 Citra, Florida |
| Died | May 17, 1974 (aged 91) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Occupation | 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.
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. 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."
He was selected second-team All-Southern in 1911, behind Vanderbilt's unanimous selection Hugh Morgan.Georgia tried to claim Grice was ineligible, to no avail.
Grice was a professor of English literature at Ouachita Baptist College.
Grice coached the football team of Washington High School in Washington, Georgia in 1922 and 1923.
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