FOUR HORSEMEN

name given by the sportswriter Grantland Rice to the backfield of the University of Notre Dame's undefeated football team of 1924: Harry Stuhldreher (quarterback), Don Miller and Jim Crowley (halfbacks), and Elmer Layden (fullback). Supported by the Seven Mules and coached by Knute Rockne, they gained enduring football fame when the nickname appeared in Rice's report in the New York Herald Tribune describing Notre Dame's 137 victory over Army on Oct. 18, 1924. A 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.