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My article on these boys was so moving that in 1998, the U.S. Postal Service released a stamp of "The Four Horsemen” as part of a tribute to the Roaring ’20s.
The Stamp
Here is an excerpt from “Notre Dame Magazine,” published during the summer of 1998.
“After reading Rice's story, the team's student publicity manager, George Strickler (later sports editor of the Chicago Tribune), had called home from New York and asked his father to have four horses brought from a livery stable to the practice field the next day. After clearing the idea with Coach Knute Rockne, Strickler hired a photographer and set up the shot. Harmon says Strickler shrewdly had the photographer sign over all rights to the picture to him personally.”
The stamp was the third Notre Dame-related commemorative issued by the U.S. Postal Service. In 1988, a Knute Rockne stamp was also released.
How about that? True legends of American sports immortalized on the face of a U.S. stamp, all thanks to me. Don’t these boys look intimidating? Now if only we could have taken a picture of them as a cyclone…