What was the nickname given to the best Notre Dame College football players?

Answer 1

The penultimate nickname for Notre Dame football players is The Four Horsemen. It was coined after the Fighting Irish beat the US Army Cadets in 1923 by writer Grantland Rice.

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 football team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below.