Notre Dame Football Well Represented on ESPN’s Top 150 Coaches List

Knute Rockne was the highest former Fighting Irish coach to make the list, coming in at three. He trails only Paul Bryant and Nick Saban on the list.

No. 95. Elmer Layden

The member of Notre Dame’s legendary “Four Horseman” backfield years earlier returned to coach his Alma-mater from 1934-1940 and went 47-13-3 but failed to win a national championship.

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Layden went 48-16-6 at Duquesne before taking the Notre Dame job – a job he left after 1940 to become commissioner of the NFL.

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