April 26, 1926, football star Ernie Nevers made his major league baseball debut in a game with the Browns.
His signing of Ernie Nevers and having the Eskimos barnstorm, is credited as helping grow the league at critical time.
Nevers | Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours | Tennessee Ernie Ford | Ernie Royal | Ernie | Ernie Kovacs | Ernie Eves | Ernie Ball | Ernie Fletcher | Ernie Banks | Underground Ernie | Ernie Harwell | Ernie Fields | Count of Nevers | Ernie Vandeweghe | Ernie Pyle | Ernie Lombardi | Ernie Davis | Ernie Conwell | William IV, Count of Nevers | Hedwig of France, Countess of Nevers | Evil Ernie | Ernie Whitt | Ernie Nevers | Ernie Kent | Ernie Johnson | Ernie Hunt | Ernie Hudson | Ernie Hicke | Ernie Hawkins |
The series began on January 1, 1925 (the end of the 1924 season) when Notre Dame's Four Horsemen and head coach Knute Rockne faced Stanford's Ernie Nevers and head coach Pop Warner at the 1925 Rose Bowl.