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. When sports writing legend Grantland Rice penned those words to describe Notre Dame's victory over Army on October 18, 1924, he helped set into motion a wave that - coupled with the subsequent photograph of Don Miller, Elmer Layden, Jim Crowley and Harry Stuhldreher - created one of the most recognizable images in American sports history.
LOYAL SONS provides snapshots of American life in the 1920s and chronicles the grand dreams, hard work, serendipitous timing, motivation and spirit that resulted in an undefeated season and Notre Dame's first consensus national championship.
Ride along as Coach Knute Rockne's team dazzles opponents and draws record crowds from New York to Chicago and finally at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The Four Horsemen, the Seven Mules, and the Shock Troops lead a team bound by perseverance, camaraderie and loyalty. They fueled the rapid rise of Notre Dame as the Fighting Irish became a source of intense pride for immigrants, Catholics and those new to the game of football across the United States.
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Höhe: 224 mm
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978-0-9818841-5-8 (9780981884158)
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JIM LEFEBVRE is an award-winning journalist, author, speaker and sports historian. His books, which include Coach For A Nation: The Life and Times of Knute Rockne, have twice been honored for excellence by the Independent Publisher Book Awards. He is the co-founder and executive director of the Knute Rockne Memorial Society, which sponsors the annual Knute Rockne Spirit of Sports Awards. Jim writes the Irish Echoes column on Notre Dame history for Blue & Gold Illustrated. He lives in the suburbs of Minneapolis.
