The Mount Rushmore

of

the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as They Are Represented in Early 20th Century American Sportswriting

New York Herald Tribune sportswriter Grantland Rice famously described Notre Dame’s 13-7 victory over Army on 18 October 1924:

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below.

And so The Mount Rushmore of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as They Are Represented in Early 20th Century American Sportswriting is:

HARRY STUHLDREHER, Quarterback

DON MILLER, Right Halfback

JIM CROWLEY, Left Halfback

ELMER LAYDEN, Fullback