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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Evangelist of Fun | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Single Winger | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Today! | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fantastic Situation? | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 8/16/1945 | See Source »

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