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- Birth nameHarry Augustus Stuhldreher
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- Harry Stuhldreher is an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played quarterback at University of Notre Dame from 1922 to 1924, where he was a three-time All-American and member of the legendary "Four Horsemen" backfield. After graduating from Notre Dame, Stuhldreher played professional football briefly with the Brooklyn Horsemen/Lions in 1926. He served as the head football coach at Villanova College-now known as Villanova University-from 1925 to 1935 and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1936 to 1948, compiling a career college football record of 110-87-15. Stuhldreher was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1958.
Stuhldreher wrote two books, "Quarterback Play" and "Knute Rockne, Man Builder." The latter was a source for the movie Knute Rockne All American (1940), starring Ronald Reagan as George Gipp. Former Notre Dame star Nick Lukats played the part of Stuhldreher in this movie. Stuhldreher's wife Mary was also a writer. The couple had four sons.
Harry Stuhldreher was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- Pictured with Don Miller, Elmer Layden, and Jim Crowley on one of fifteen 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps in the "Celebrate the Century" series, issued 28 May 1998, celebrating the 1920s. Together they were known as the "Four Horsemen of Notre Dame".
- Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958.
- Played in one game in the National Football League, as a tailback with the Brooklyn Lions in 1926, their only season in the league.
- Inducted into the Madison (Wisconsin) Sports Hall of Fame in 1966.
- Head football coach at Villanova University (1925-1935) and University of Wisconsin (1936-1948).
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