1939 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Letterman Sweater and Two Don Miller Signed Letters (PSA)

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1939 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Letterman Sweater and Two Don Miller Signed Letters (PSA)

"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 Notre Dame 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 bewildered panorama spread on the green plain below." Grantland Rice wrote those stirring words about the marvelous Notre Dame backfield of Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden after Notre Dame defeated Army in 1924. Presented, in addition to a wonderfully preserved 1939 Notre Dame letterman sweater, are two letters written by the right halfback of the Four Horsemen, Don C. Miller. The first typed letter was a thank you missive written by Miller to Fred Naegele, a young Notre Dame graduate to whom Miller was a mentor. It comes with its full envelope and is signed by Miller as "Don." The second typed letter is a letter of introduction to help Naegele in his job search. The signature reads, "Don C. Miller," and the letter comes with half of the original envelope. The beautiful blue woolen 1939 Notre Dame Fighting Irish sweater has "43" in gold double tackle twill on the chest. A tag in the neck reads "Spalding." It is remarkably preserved. With this letterman sweater and the Don Miller signed letters, one can imagine a nostalgic return to long-ago days of lore, soon to be ago, when Don Miller and the other Four Horsemen would "Shake down the thunder from the sky." Each signature comes with a PSA LOA.