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Sixty Years Ago, Everyone Ran The Wildcat

Article By on 19th October, 2009

... Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller, 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."

That was from Grantland Rice's article in the New York Herald that made the All-American studded backfield of Notre Dame into legend and lore.

The passage sticks in my mind every time I hear how the Wildcat is changing the game and makes me think, "oh, how quickly we forget."

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