Nickname for the four best players on the Notre Dame football team, created by Grantland Rice.

• A. Arnold Palmer
• B. Grantland Rice
• C. The Four Horsemen
• D. Max Schmeling

Answer: (C)

This question centers on a famous nickname for Notre Dame’s top backfield, created by Grantland Rice. Rice described Notre Dame’s four starting players in 1924 as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a vivid image that matched their speed, power, and impact on the game. The label helped turn the quartet—Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden—into legendary figures in football history and it remains a lasting symbol of that era.

The other options don’t fit because they refer to people with entirely different associations: Arnold Palmer is a legendary golfer; Grantland Rice is the journalist who coined the nickname, not the nickname itself; Max Schmeling was a famous boxer. The nickname tied specifically to Notre Dame’s backfield, coined by Rice, is The Four Horsemen.