Four Horsemen

Four Horsemen
Name given by the sportswriter Grantland Rice to the backfield of the University of Notre Dame's undefeated football team of 1924: quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, halfbacks Don Miller and Jim Crowley, and fullback Elmer Layden.

They and their teammates, coached by Knute Rockne, lost only two of 30 games in the years 1922–24.

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      name given by the sportswriter Grantland Rice (Rice, Grantland) to the backfield of the University of Notre Dame's (Notre Dame, University of) undefeated gridiron football team of 1924: Harry Stuhldreher (quarterback), Don Miller and Jim Crowley (halfbacks), and Elmer Layden (fullback). Supported by the Seven Mules (the nickname given to the offensive line that cleared the way for the four backs) and coached by Knute Rockne (Rockne, Knute), they gained enduring football fame when the nickname appeared in Rice's report in the New York Herald Tribune describing Notre Dame's 13–7 victory over Army on October 18, 1924. Rice likened them to the mythological Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for the damage they did to Army's team. A later photograph of the four, dressed in football uniforms and mounted on horses, caught the fancy of fans. The Four Horsemen and their teammates lost only 2 of 30 games played from 1922 to 1924. Stuhldreher, Crowley, and Layden went on to coaching careers.

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