Elmer Layden, one of the Four Horsemen for Knute Rockne, soon looked like a genius. Sweeney quickly went from a bench warmer to the hottest commodity in college football. Against Navy ...

Notre Dame fullback Elmer Layden broke open a close Rose Bowl in the second quarter by returning a Stanford pass 78 yards for a touchdown. The Irish would score three defensive touchdowns, two by ...

Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden were immortalized by Grantland Rice in what is widely recognized as the best lead sentence in the history of sports writing ...

The famed Polo Grounds sits across the Harlem River where the new Yankee Stadium is: The Fighting Irish's upset that year was led by four of their star players in Jim Crowley, Elmer Layden ...

Sweeney had played football for Notre Dame under coach Elmer Layden, who became NFL commissioner and hired Sweeney as a ref. The 1958 championship game went into overtime, and NBC's TV feed failed ...