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In 1924, a nickname coined by sportswriter Grantland Rice and the actions of a student publicity aide transformed the Notre Dame backfield of Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller, and Layden into one of the most noted groups of collegiate athletes in football history, the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. [2]
Contents. 1924 college football season. The 1924 college football season was the year of the Four Horsemen as the Notre Dame team, coached by Knute Rockne, won all of its games, including the Rose Bowl, to be acclaimed as the best team in the nation. Notre Dame and Stanford were both unbeaten at season's end, with the Fighting Irish winning the ...
A Biblical reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, this famous account was published in the New York Herald Tribune on October 18, describing the Notre Dame vs. Army game played at the Polo Grounds in New York City: Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again.
Grantland Rice, left, and Joe E. Brown, right, at the Santa Anita races. Rice is known for, among other things, crafting legendary phrases such as "The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame."
Grantland Rice Trophy; Notre Dame Fighting Irish – 1966, 1973, 1977, 1988 [355] ... as it is the only number to be worn by one of the Four Horsemen (Elmer Layden) ...
The day after Notre Dame's defeat of Army in football, sportswriter Grantland Rice's famous newspaper account was published nationwide. "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky," Rice wrote, "the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases.
In his columns, sportswriter Grantland Rice had already written "The Fordham Wall Still Stands" in honor of the team and its early season success, but a catchy nickname was still needed—something to rival Notre Dame's famous Four Horsemen of 1924.
The Four Horsemen was a term first used by Grantland Rice to describe the backfield of Notre Dame's football team in 1924. The four players were quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, left halfback Jim Crowley, right halfback Don Miller and fullback Elmer Layden. All but Layden were All-Americans, and all four are members of the College Football Hall ...