"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." Those were the poetic words that the New York Herald Tribune's Grantland Rice composed in the most famous sports lede ever written, as he described Notre Dame's 13-7 football win against Army at New York City's Polo Grounds on Oct. 18, 1924. Offered is the opportunity to possess a Four Horsemen signed, framed display. At half-time of the aforementioned game against Army, Notre Dame's student assistant for publicity, George Strickler, urged the sportswriters in the press box to call the Notre Dame backfield the Four Horsemen as a reference to the 1921 Rudolph Valentino movie The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. When the Notre Dame team returned to South Bend the next day, the resourceful Strickler posed the Four Horsemen on horses rented from a local stable, and the photo was sent to the wire services and used across the United States. The famous four Horsemen are: Harry Stuhldreher, quarterback; Jim Crowley, left halfback; Don Miller, right halfback; Elmer Layden, fullback. Notre Dame went undefeated in the '22 season when the Irish defeated Stanford, 27-10, in that season's Rose Bowl and Notre Dame became National Champions.

The offering, matted and framed to 17.75x20.5", includes: 1) A 3x5.6" white card or cardstock in which is typed the aforementioned Grantland Rice quotation, plus, "By Grantland Rice/POLO GROUNDS, N.Y./October 18, 1924/Notre Dame 13 Army 7"; 2) A blue and gold Notre Dame logo; 3) A 6.5x9" red-tinged image of the Four Horseman on horses, headlined by, "NOTRE DAME/ARMY." The image has a stain of about a half inch, with minor paper loss, on the top right; 4) A 4.25x5.75" cut from a dinner program which reads, "National Secretaries Association (International)/LAKE SHORE CHAPTER/The Hotel Continental/February 3, 1964/17th Annual Boss Night Dinner." On this dinner program cut are the following signatures and inscriptions: "Best of Luck, Harry Stuhldreher/Every Good Wish Jim Crowley/Sincere Regards Don Miller/Elmer Layden." All of the Four Horsemen wrote in blue ink except for Don Miller, who used pencil. The signatures and inscriptions are all clearly written. The offering comes with a PSA LOA for the signatures. This signed display is a wonderful memento of Notre Dame's immortal backfield.

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