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Notre Dame "Four Horsemen" Photograph (PSA)
"Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again," were the magnificent opening words of famed sportswriter Grantland Rice in his <em>New York Herald Tribune</em> reportage of Notre Dame's stunning upset victory over Army on Oct. 18, 1924. "In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death," continued Rice. "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 team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below." Soon after Rice's brilliant, "poetical" words were published, a student assistant (George Strickler) in the Notre Dame publicity department posed the Four Horseman on horses, the photo became a national sensation, and the legend of the Four Horseman was cemented into history. Displayed is a 7x9" black & white Type IV photograph of the Four Horsemen, the most famous football backfield of all time. Left to right in the photo: Don Miller, right halfback; Elmer Layden, fullback; Jim Crowley, left halfback; Harry Stuhldreher, quarterback. This quartet had been riding over and through opposing teams since partway through the 1922 season, when coach Knute Rockne composed the backfield and let them stampede. With the Four Horsemen in the backfield, Notre Dame lost only a single game in both the '22 and '23 seasons, each time to Nebraska. In 1924, the Irish defeated Stanford in the Rose Bowl to complete a 10-0 season and take the National Championship. The 7x9" photo has the names of the Four Horsemen written in pencil on the back by an unknown hand, and the back of the photo has stamps from "Brown Brothers," famed sports photographers, and from the Hearst Corporation. The photograph exhibits only slight fading from its near century old age. It has a small, handwritten editing notation on the lower margin. It is in otherwise excellent condition. The photo has been encapsulated and PSA certified "Type IV AUTHENTIC c.1940s".
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