Jan. 1, 1925: Notre Dame fullback Elmer Layden broke open a close Rose Bowl in the second quarter by returning a Stanford pass 78 yards for a touchdown. The Irish would score three defensive ...

Notre Dame star Elmer Layden returned two interceptions for touchdowns and ran for a third, but his biggest play in the 1925 Rose Bowl against Stanford came after the Indians had closed within 20-10.

Elmer Layden came from relatively humble beginnings. His father, Tom, was a traveling salesman with the John F. Kelly wholesale grocery company in Davenport. Layden began playing football on the ...

Heartly (“Hunk”) Anderson, who lost his job coaching football at Notre Dame following the team’s disastrous season, met his successor Elmer Layden at last week’s convention of the American ...

NFL commissioner Elmer Layden must have had plenty of time on ... enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006, remains the all-time passing leader in Cowboys history, walking away from ...

Nebraska played many college football greats in the 20th century ... Harry Stuhldreher, James Crowley, Don Miller and Elmer Layden were regarded as the greatest backfield ever.

The Des Moines Sunday Register’s sportswriters have had their say for an all-state football team. The Register asked readers to select their own all-century squad. And here it is. Elmer Layden ...