Notre Dame at Northwestern

Saturday, November 23, 1929

Notre Dame beat Northwestern 26–⁠6. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 6–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayNotre Dame9–⁠0 in 1929
26
HomeNorthwestern6–⁠3 in 1929
6

FinalAttendance 50,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Indianapolis times's story: Hoosier State In Headlines as Grid Season Nears End Purdue SmotherS Indiana and Notre Dame MopS Up on Northwestern; Records of Both Stand Out.

    The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], November 25, 1929, page 14

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    Hoosier State In Headlines as Grid Season Nears End Purdue SmotherS Indiana and Notre Dame MopS Up on Northwestern; Records of Both Stand Out. held back as they took De Paw, Chicago, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Iowa into camp, and then exploded their best on Indiana last Saturday to smother their state rivals, 80 to 0. It was under the guiding hand of a great coach, Jimmy Phe- Ian, that the Purdue team Travelled through such q difficult season to win undisputed conference honors. Theories of some that Indiana was in line to spill another upset were knocked into cooked hat early Saturday. That Purdue line rushed Indiana forwards off their feet. The galloping four, Harmeson, WEIGH, White and Yunevich, scored a touchdown in the first quarter. Harmeson carried the ball around end for three yards and the first touchdown. White kicked the extra point. Two subs, Risk and Purvis, went into the fray for Harmeson and White in the second quarter and accounted for the second touch down, aided by a penalty. Purvis reeled off a run of seventeen yards and penalty took the ball to the vineyard line, from where Yunevich was not to be denied touchdown. Touchdown Pass In the third period WEIGH heaved a pass to Harneson fol g touch down. Sleight blocked Balay’s punt on the 26-yard line and WEIGH broke through on the first play for a touchdown. Hermeson kicked the extra point. A minute later WEIGH intercepted an Indiana air try and reached the 5-yard line. Yunevich sumbled when a touchdown seemed ininent. An exchange OF punts followed. Garrison fumbled ons and Sleight recovered for a touch down. Notre Dame proved to Northwest ern and $4,000 fans that football plays properly executed, no matter how simple, can win ball games. There were no triple passes, few for ward passes and hidden ball tricks used by the Irish as they piled up a 26-point lead on the Wildcats at in three quarters. The final score was 26 to s. Moynihan Hurt Notre Dame received a crushing blow shortly before the first half ended when Tim Moynihan, star center and part Of the great Notre Dame center line trio, with Cannon and Law, received broken ankle. loss to the team revealed itself in the fourth period when bad pass from center on a crossed signal went into the end zone and Marvil fell on it for a Wildcat touchdown. Wabash and De Paw were doped as nearly even in strength for their annual game Saturday, and the Lit tie Giants eased out one-point win, 81, In thrilling game featured by the late game drive of the Scarlet for victory.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 25, 1929, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The fo.iowing are -:nai scores of important football games played in various parts of the states last Saturday afternoon: Chicago 26; University of Wash ington 6. Stanford 21; California 6. Oregon Aggies IA; University of Detroit 2. Oregon T; Hawaii 0. University of Southern California 72; Idaho 0. Notre Dame 26; Northwestern 6. Army 19; Ohio Wesleyan 6. Navy 30; West Virginia Wesleyan 6. Harvard 10; Yale 6. New York University 20; Rutgers V. Illinois 27; Ohio 0. Lehigh 13; Lafayette 12 Michigan 0; Iowa 0. Swarthmore 32; Dickinson 0. Florida 20; South Carolina 2. Missouri 2; Kansas 0. Nebraska 10; Kansas Aggies 6. Purdue 32; Indiana O. Minnesota IS; Wisconsin 12. Washington State 27; Gonzaga

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Notre Dame 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 37–⁠9–⁠2 in 48 meetings, counting the 40 since this game.

Recent meetings
2018Notre Dame 31, Northwestern 21
2014Northwestern 43, Notre Dame 40
1995Northwestern 17, Notre Dame 15
1994Notre Dame 42, Northwestern 15
1993Notre Dame 27, Northwestern 12
1992Notre Dame 42, Northwestern 7

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