In what stadium was the game played in which the Four Horseman were so named?

Answer 1

The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame comprised a winning group of football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne. They were the legendary backfield of Notre Dame's 1924 football team. The players that made up this group were Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden. But the foursome needed some help from Grantland Rice, a sportswriter for the former New York Herald-Tribune, to achieve football immortality. After Notre Dame's 13-7 upset victory over a strong Army team (at the Army Stadium), on October 18, 1924, Rice penned a famous passage of sports journalism: "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. 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."

George Strickler, then Rockne's student publicity aide and later sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, made sure the name stuck. After the team arrived back in South Bend, he posed the four players, dressed in their uniforms, on the backs of four horses from a livery stable in town. The wire services picked up the now-famous photo, and the legendary status of the Four Horsemen was insured.

Answer 2

Grantland Rice came up with the nickname. He had just watched Notre Dame beat Army in the Polo Grounds on Oct. 18, 1924, and that was the start to his story. It stuck.

Answer 3

At the Polo Grounds at the time...but it was officially Army's football stadium...