Life — November 1932 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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# "Imaginary Interviews: Grantland Rice" This page presents a satirical interview with **Grantland Rice**, a famous sports columnist and prognosticator. The cartoonist mocks Rice's habit of making football predictions by showing him "spinning a coin" to decide outcomes—suggesting his forecasts are essentially guesswork rather than expert analysis. The interview humorously presents Rice confidently predicting various college football games (Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn-Cornell, Army, Yale, Princeton) while the interviewer implies these predictions are unreliable. The accompanying illustrations show campus scenes and "The Star Spangled Banner" being sung at a game. The satire's point: even celebrated sports experts rely on chance, not genuine insight, when forecasting game results. It's a gentle mockery of overconfident sports journalism.