Notre Dame at Pennsylvania

Saturday, November 8, 1930

Notre Dame beat Pennsylvania 60–⁠20. It was their first meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayNotre Dame10–⁠0 in 1930
60
HomePennsylvania5–⁠4 in 1930
20

FinalHigh 53°F, low 33°FAttendance 75,657

In the newspapers

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story: PITT DAZzLED p BY Wild ORGY Notre Dame Backs Stage Great Demonstration OF Strength

    Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, November 9, 1930, page 1

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    PITT DAZzLED p BY Wild ORGY Notre Dame Backs Stage Great Demonstration OF Strength FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia, Nov. 8.-CP-The green jerseyed football cyclone from Sout-, Bend. rushing the colors of Notre Tame toward another National Champion ship. leveled the ramparts of the University OF Pennsylvania today with n of the greatest scoring onslaughts yer witnessed on an American College Gridiron. The final score was Notre Dame 60. Pennsylvania 20. nine touch downs to three. But the margin might have been 100 to O If the Rockne regulars had stayed in the game long enough 10 sustain the b~ewildering pace they set midway in the first half and again through out the third quarter. Nothing like this. not even the famous Warner offensive Of 1928 has been witnessed on eastern gridirons since football players we’re boards. All Of Pennsylvania’s tcuchdC vns. az the close Of the first half and two more toward the end OF the game. were scored against Sc cond. third and fifth string irish players.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES 2 ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 10, 1930, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES 2 ON SATURDAY The. following are scores of i’m portant football games played las Saturday in various parts of the States: Army 13; Illinois 0. Cornell 54 Hobart O. Georgia T; New York University Michigan 6; Harvard 3. Yale 66; Alfred 0. Brown 32; Tufts T. Pittsburgh r; Carnegie Tech 6. Syracuse T; Penn State 0. Notre Dame 60; Pennsylvania 20. Georgetown 20; Boston College 19. Fordham IS; Detroit University T. Duke IA; Kentucky ‘. F Dartmouth 43 Alleghany IA. Colgate 54; Columbia O. Lehigh 13; Princeton g. North Dakota State II; Michigan State 19. z Ohio State 27; Navy 0. Nebraska 16; Kansas 0. Purdue 26; Chicago T. Northwestern 25; Indiana O. Washington State 33; Idaho ‘. Stanford, 25; University of Wash- ington ‘. Vanderbilt 6; Georgia Tech 0. Iowa O; Missouri IA. Wisconsin 58; South Dakota State ‘. Alabama 20; Florida O. < Texas and M. T; Southern Metho- dist 13. Wyoming 21; Colorado Aggies 6. Texas Christian 20; Rice 0. Oregon T; University of California at Los Angeles 0. Southern California “A; California O.

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.

On the newsreel

  • NOTRE DAME SINKS PENNSYLVANIA IN 60-20 PIGSKIN ROUTWhile 80,000 look on, Rockne’s South Bend terrors run wild over Quakers at Franklin Field, inflicting the most humiliating defeat Red and Blue has suffered in more than a generation of fierce football battles.Universal Newsreel, November 10, 1930. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Notre Dame 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 5–⁠0–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
1955Notre Dame 46, Pennsylvania 14
1954Notre Dame 42, Pennsylvania 7
1953Notre Dame 28, Pennsylvania 20
1952Notre Dame 7, Pennsylvania 7
1931Notre Dame 49, Pennsylvania 0
1930Notre Dame 60, Pennsylvania 20

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