record crowd on 80,000. Anderson's Irish closed the season on a sour note, losing to USC by a score of 13–0. 1933 was a tough year for the Irish as they finished with a 3–5–2 record. Notre Dame began the season in a scoreless tie with Kansas. After defeating Indiana by a score of 12–2, ND suffered a four-game losing streak, failing to score a point in all four losses to Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Navy, and Purdue. Notre Dame ended the losing streak by defeating Northwestern by a score of 7–0. The Fighting Irish closed the season with a 19–0 loss to USC and a 13–12 win over Army. Elmer Layden (1934–1940) Anderson was replaced by Elmer Layden, who was one of Rockne's “Four Horsemen” in the 1920s. After graduating, Layden played professional football for one year and then began a coaching career. The Irish posted a record of 47 wins, 13 losses, and three ties in seven years under Layden, the most successful record of a Notre Dame coach not to win a national championship. He left Notre Dame after the 1940 season to become Commissioner of the National Football League. Layden's 1935 squad posted one of the greatest wins in school history by rallying to defeat Ohio State by a score of 18–13. His 1938 team finished 8–1, losing only to USC in the season finale. This loss cost them a possible consensus national championship, but the team was named national champion by the Dickinson System. Like Rockne before him, Layden was a goodwill ambassador for Notre Dame during his time as head coach. He was able to schedule a home-and-home series with Michigan after meeting with Fielding H. Yost, healing a rift between the two schools. The two teams had not met since 1909, when, after eight straight losses to the Wolverines, the Irish posted their first win. They were scheduled to meet again in 1910, but Michigan canceled the game and refused to play the Irish again. By the time they met again in 1943, Layden had left Notre Dame and Frank Leahy had taken his place. Unlike the easygoing Layden, Leahy was intense, and after the Irish had thrashed Michigan by a score of 35–12 in 1943, Wolverine coach and athletic director Fritz Crisler never scheduled the Irish again. Frank Leahy era (1941–1953) Boston College head coach Frank Leahy was hired by Notre Dame to