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Harry Augustus Stuhldreher. Typed letter signed, 8.5x5.5 on printed University of Wisconsin letterhead, November 5, 1936, to high school principal J. Wesley Baleris. “Many thanks for your note of encouragement. Things haven’t been going any too well but we more or less expected them. Perhaps in due time we will get our share of good luck; at least I hope so. Under separate cover I am sending you an autographed picture. Sincerely yours, Harry Stuhldreher. DIRECTOR." Light creases, one horizontal mailing fold. Anything signed by Stuhldreher is rare and desirable.
Harry Augustus Stuhldreher. (1901-1965). American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played quarterback at the University of Notre Dame from 1922 to 1924 and member of the legendary “Four Horsemen” backfield. In 1924, a nickname coined by sportswriter Grantland Riceand the actions of a student publicity aide, transformed the Notre Dame backfield of Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller, and Layden into one of the most noted groups of collegiate athletes in football history, the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame.
After graduating from Notre Dame, Stuhdreher played professional football briefly with Brooklyn Horsemen in 1926. He servied as head football coach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1936 to 1948. He was inducted into the College Football of Fame as a player in 1958.
Here is what Grantland Rice wrote on October 18, 1924: “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.”
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