title: Willard Rice
text: # Willard Rice
  
  Willard Wadsworth Rice (April 21, 1895 – July 21, 1967) was an American ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics.
  
  Rice was born in Newton, Massachusetts the son of Abbott Barnes Rice, a Massachusetts legislator, and Amy Thurber (Bridges) Rice. He was a graduate of Harvard University in 1922. Rice played hockey with the Boston Athletic Association team in the 1920s and 1930s that played at the Boston Arena. He was a member of the American ice hockey team in the 1924 Winter Olympics that won the silver medal. Rice had a career as an executive with a soap manufacturing company. He died in Weston, Massachusetts on 21 July 1967.
  
  