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Football, Catholics, and Prejudice

Author: Brendan O'Shaughnessy

A 1924 image promoting Notre Dame football with the slogan "Notre Dame Football Kills Prejudice" features three football players on horseback. The attached ticket stub is from a 2024 Hesburgh Library exhibition.

The year 1924, when Grantland Rice penned his famous lede—“Outlined against a blue, gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again”—wasn’t the birth of Notre Dame football, but it was the moment when the University learned to leverage its gridiron fame for a greater purpose.

A multimedia exhibit, , employs to combat bigotry and promote a more inclusive America.

The University Archives’ senior archivist for graphic materials, , and , sports archivist and curator of the Joyce Sports Research Collection, teamed up to curate the exhibit.