{"id":458,"date":"2010-11-17T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=458"},"modified":"2010-11-17T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T05:50:09","slug":"nd-vs-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/nd-vs-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame vs. Army"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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Notre Dame’s relationship with the military also extends to the athletic fields.\u00a0 Many Notre Dame traditions and myths were born out of football games with Army.\u00a0 In 1912, newly appointed Athletic Director Jesse Harper contacted West Point about arranging a football game for the 1913 season, which began a long and fierce rivalry.<\/p>\n

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Contract between Notre Dame Athletic Director Jesse Harper and West Point football team manager H.F. Loomis for the Notre Dame vs. Army football game, 1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Notre Dame was certainly the underdog, her team was far from untalented and struggling.\u00a0 Notre Dame had already begun to make a name for herself on the football field with players like Louis “Red” Salmon (1903\u00a0third-team All American) and the 1909 Western Champions.\u00a0 From 1906-1913, Notre Dame lost only three games, tied five, and won fifty-one.\u00a0 The 1913 season would give Notre Dame an opportunity to showcase her talent outside of the Midwest, with formidable opponents such as Army, Penn State, and Texas.<\/p>\n

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Football team members and boosters in Kingston, New York, en route to West Point, 1913\/1101. Includes Ray Eichenlaub, Charles (Gus) Dorais, George (Hullie) Hull, Art (Bunny) Larkin, Keith (Deac\/Deak) Jones, Joe, Gush (Fred Gushurst?), Em (Emmett Keefe?), Charles (Sam) Finegan, Paul (Curly) Nowers, Allen (Mal) Elward, Knute Rockne, and Mike Calnon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Notre Dame took Army off-guard with plays using the newly-developed forward pass.\u00a0 While this technique had been used in other games by other schools, Quarterback Gus Dorais and Knute Rockne often receive credit for its invention because of this high-profile opponent.<\/p>\n

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Football Game Scene – ND vs. Army, 1913\/1101.
Caption: “The completion of one of the startling ‘[Gus] Dorais to Rockne’ passes which beat the Army in 1913 and modified the entire game of football. Here’s Knute making a touchdown.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After the 1924 Army game, sports writer Grantland Rice forever changed the name of Don Miller, Harry Stuhldreher, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden to “The Four Horsemen.”<\/p>\n

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Dome yearbook 1925, page 291: Reprint of Grantland Rice’s famous article after the 1924 ND vs. Army football game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Student George Strickler, who worked as a press assistant for the Athletic Department, actually had put the bug about the nickname of the Four Horsemen into Grant’s ear in the press box.\u00a0 After the game, Strickler arranged to have these four players photograph taken on top of actual horses, thus producing one of the most widely recognized photographs in sports history.<\/p>\n

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The Four Horsemen posed on horses —
Don Miller, Elmer Layden, Jim Crowley, and Harry Stuhldreher, 1924<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Much lore surrounds the 1928 Army game when Coach Knute Rockne took a losing team into the locker room at halftime and gave a rousing speech, summoning the memory of George Gipp, which turned the tide for Notre Dame.\u00a0 No one really knows what was said in that locker room or between Gipp and Rockne in 1920, but Rockne later published his “Win One for the Gipper”<\/a> speech in Collier’s magazine.\u00a0 Over the years it became ingrained in American culture, strengthened by its presence in the media, particularly Ronald Reagan’s portrayal of George Gipp in the 1940 movie Knute Rockne All American<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Collage of Notre Dame Players and the Army Mule after the 1928 Army Football Game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After 1947,\u00a0 Notre Dame and Army met less often on the football field, only a handful of times per decade.\u00a0 Saturday November 20, 2010, the two teams will meet again in Yankee Stadium, which was the venue for this rivalry every year from 1925-1946, with the exception of playing at Soldier Field in 1930.<\/p>\n

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Sources:
\n2010 Football Media Guide<\/a> compiled by the Athletic Department (History & Records \u2013 Part 3)
\n<\/a>Shake down the Thunder<\/em> by Murray Sperber
\n<\/a>UADR 3\/21<\/a>
\n<\/a>GSBH 1\/08
\n<\/a>PATH 3-03-Bi-Tr-p10<\/a>
\nDome yearbook 1925
\nGBBY 45F\/944<\/a>
\nGBBY OVF\/245<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>

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Notre Dame’s relationship with the military also extends to the athletic fields.\u00a0 Many Notre Dame traditions and myths were born out of football games with Army.\u00a0 In 1912, newly appointed Athletic Director Jesse Harper contacted West Point about arranging a football game for the 1913 season, which began a long and fierce rivalry. While Notre … Continue reading “Notre Dame vs. Army”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37,71,78],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-traditions"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 00:51:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}