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Notre Dame’s Nine Horsemen and the 1950s football watch
The piece praises Notre Dame's 1949 backfield as the famed nine horsemen led by Williams Sitko Coutre Palejski and Landry, contrasts them with North Carolina and other teams, notes refereeing and substitution flaws, and urges earlier kickoffs and rule changes for better daylight play and fewer errors. It cites Frank Leahy and references Carl Snave ly, Grantland Rice, and the Tar Heels.
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K. K. Rockne
Four Horsemen
Carl Snavely
New York
Grantland Rice
Charlie Justice
L.S. A
Tennessee
Notre Dami
Horsemen
Notre Dame
Williams
Sitko
Spaniel
Swistewicz
Coutre
Palejski
Guy
Barrett
Landry
North Carolina
Couite
Zalejoki
Dick Bunting
Bnayely
Hart
Willams
Tar Heels
Semdarkness
East