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...Notre Dame's famed backfield the day in 1924 that they beat Army ("Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence. Destruction and Death . . . Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller. Crowley and Layden...
Just Enough. Recalls Caldwell: "I felt as if we were being toyed with . . . I don't believe I made a clean tackle all afternoon. There would come Layden, or Miller, or someone. I would get set to drop the ball carrier in his tracks and someone would give me a nudge, just enough to throw me off balance, just enough pressure to make me miss." Charlie mulled over what had hit him, and decided: "We . . . had been subjected to our first lesson in what might be called the science of football...
...Dame's legendary Four Horsemen celebrated their 25th anniversary reunion, there was speculation about whether the 1949 Notre Dame's team was the best in the school's 62-year football history. "Let's say it's one of the greatest," said Horseman Elmer Layden, onetime fullback. But the 1949 entry made a good case for itself by crushing Southern California, 32-0, and stretching Notre Dame's unbeaten string to 37 games over four seasons...
When the upstart All-America Football Conference was in kneepants, Elmer Layden, then commissioner of the rival pro National Football League, was asked whether his well-heeled, well-established league would recognize it. Layden scornfully replied: "Let them get a football." By last week, three years later, the junior circuit had succeeded so well that both leagues were practically broke...
Varsity end coach at Harvard from 1941 to 1943, Brown and previous played under Elmer Layden at Notre Dame and had been picked as All-American left...