"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 Stuldreher, Miller, Crowley, and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend 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 bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below." Grantland Rice, a well-known sports columnist in the first half of the twentieth century, wrote those memorable words on Saturday afternoon, October 19, 1924. With these words a legend was started, for Notre Dame football, for the team's immortal coach Knute Rockne and, that day especially, for the F…
CSS Publishing Company, Sermons for Sundays in Lent and Easter, by Richard Gribble