Name given by the sportswriter Grantland Rice to the backfield of the University of Notre Dame's undefeated football team of 1924: quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, halfbacks Don Miller and Jim Crowley, and fullback Elmer Layden. They and their teammates, coached by Knute Rockne, lost only two of 30 games in the years 1922-24
(New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse
Four beings in Revelation 6: 1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each riding a different-colored horse representing a different aspect of the Apocalypse
In the Book of Revelation, four horsemen that personify pestilence, war, famine, and death, sent as harbingers of the end of the world. Also called Four Horsemen. in the Bible, four men who ride horses and represent the four things that cause people the greatest pain and suffering, namely war, famine (=lack of food) , death, and pestilence (=serious disease)