Pittsburgh at Notre Dame

Saturday, October 24, 1931

Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 25–⁠12. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 4–⁠0–⁠1 as played.

AwayPittsburgh8–⁠1 in 1931
12
HomeNotre Dame6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1931
25

FinalHigh 73°F, low 60°F, 0.19 in. of rainAttendance 37,394

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: AERIAL ATTACK PAvES WAY FOR IRISH VICTORY |Notre Dame e Wins from Pittsburgh by Score 25-12

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 26, 1931, page 5

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    AERIAL ATTACK PAvES WAY FOR IRISH VICTORY |Notre Dame e Wins from Pittsburgh by Score 25–⁠12 SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 26.- A swirling, surging tide of forward passes carried the fighting Irish of Notre Dame to another football conquest Saturday by engulfing the undefeated University of Pittsburgh Panthers under the short end of a 25 to 12 score. Forty-two thousand people jam med the stadium to witness the battle. The Panther line stemmed the first onslaughts of the Irish shock troops, but as the game progressed and Coach “Hunky” An derson threw in fresh men Notre Dame had little difficulty in turn ing in a victory.

  • The The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current's story: Football Stars In Saturdays Games

    The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, October 26, 1931, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Stars In Saturdays Games Vernon Smith, Georgia–Snatched pass over goal line, kicked the point, forced a Vanderbilt safety to account for all his teams nine points. Bud Parker, Yale-Grabbed kickoff and ran IS yards for q touchdown to tie Army, So. Earl Sparkling. Southern California Scored only touchdown Of game with California on ancient end around play. Pug Rent1er and Ollie Olson NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ran 40 yards for touchdown and latter kicked field goal to beat Ohio State, 100. Marchemont Schwartz and Mike Koken, Notre Dame-Their accurate passing beat Pittsburgh. 25–⁠12. Jack Orchard, Harvard–Scored three touchdowns against Texas.

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

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Our ratings (scores only)

Notre Dame 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 51–⁠21–⁠1; as played, 52–⁠21–⁠1 in 74 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Notre Dame 37, Pittsburgh 15
2023Notre Dame 58, Pittsburgh 7
2020Notre Dame 45, Pittsburgh 3
2018Notre Dame 19, Pittsburgh 14
2015Notre Dame 42, Pittsburgh 30
2013Pittsburgh 28, Notre Dame 21

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