Princeton's Charlie Caldwell, voted 1950's top U.S. coach, says that he really learned what modern football was all about on Oct. 25, 1924, a day of massive frustration. Charlie, then a fullback, spent that afternoon backing up the line of a good Princeton team pitted against Knute Rockne's celebrated Four Horsemen. Notre Dame won, 12-0, and it was probably a merciful score.
Just Enough. Recalls Caldwell: "I felt as if we were being toyed with . . . I don't believe I made a clean tackle all afternoon. There would come Layden, or Miller, or someone. I would get set to drop...
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