Notre Dame at Pittsburgh
Saturday, October 24, 1936 Share
No. 9 Pittsburgh beat No. 7 Notre Dame 26–0. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 5–4–1 as played.
FinalAttendance 70,244
In the newspapers

Imperial Valley press, California, October 26, 1936, page 5
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NOTRE DAME TOUGH Too GOOD to Lose 300 GRID FANS DISAGREE PITTSBURGH, Oct. 26. U.H Il few short side notes on the Pitt Notre Dame game which saw Elmer Layden get the first, and probably the last, booing of his life: Doctor Jock Sutherland the Dundee den tist who coaches the Pittsburghs, thinks Notre Dame too fine a team to be beaten 26 to 0 by anybody which is very nice and considerate, but doesn’t mean much when $4,000 of the 10000 crowd which saw the game agree that the score might easily have been 40 (or more) to :. The half-time whistle a minute after Bobby Larue’s 67-yard run to the Irish three yard line cost Pitt six or seven points, and had Mar shall Goldbreg known enough to cut to the sidelines on his return of the third period kickoff he would have had run of 100 yards instead of fifty, and another touchdown And on Marshalls 50-yard return Of a punt there would have been another score if the Pitt center. Hensley, hadn’t decided to do little day dreaming and failed to cut down, the Notre Dame safety man But it’s a critical man indeed who would spend much time find ing fault with the Panthers of Sat urday After all, they didn’t yield single first down until the first play of the fourth quarter, which certainly must be some sort CT record against Notre Dame The Irish got but four all day, and one of them was the result of sue cessive offside penalties Notre Dame brought four full teams, and perhaps that’s the reason for the rout The Irish never seemed quite sure which combination to use =. Notre Dame had one play down to perfection, however The out of bounds pass Three times they threw long and vigorous passes which were completed just as the receiver stepped off the fair way into the rough O’Reilly was on the catching end of two

The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 26, 1936, page 13
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rey Wrist Here it is Monday, and, as usual, for the past few starts of week, the Saturday football games and presi- dential election is the chief topic of conversation among the men who meander in for their gasoline bug gies serviced with Esso and Essolube. Notre Dame’s 26–0 blanking seems to be thestops in the suprise depart ment, even though many of the football folks seemed to think that the Pitt Panther would claw its way through. It WIS the magin. that sur prised everyone, it seems, like the fellows who get too many calls from their stock brokers. Dave and Mort Walzer of the Waterbury Mattress company, and Marjorie Blick were three Ii the many friends of mine who got an hours thrills listening to the Pitt Notre Dame game over the radio Rolling along with the breeze in his handsome Packard goes Meyer Ep- stein of Freedman’s, who is very much sport-minded with boxing racing and [. good football game al about equal in his estimation wher it comes to providing excellent en- tertainment. Meyer, by the way, vii probably be among the thousand; present at Narragansett Wednesday afternoon when the $55,000 two year old horse race is run at the Rhode Island track and the chances art that Meyers horse, whichever itmay be will be ‘‘in the money” at thu finish. SAM KRAMER, Manager. Grey oil Co.

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 26, 1936, page 12
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TWO BIC BATTLES ON TAP THIS WEEK Foot Ball World Focuses on WiIdcats-G -Gophers, RamS.Panthers. “A VIEW YORK, october 26.-Gath- N ering force as it goes along, VI the foot ball hurricane strikes 4 at Evanston and New York this week. Big Ten. as we’ll as national cham pionship hopes, will be at stake at Evanston, where Northwestern’s undefeated Wildcats attempt to check the Minnesota Juggernaut that has rolled over 81 successive rivals. Al New York, Fordham’s unspectacular but effective Rams tackle Jock Sutherland’s Pittsburgh Panthers, riding on high once more since that stun ming setback by Duquesne. Elsewhere the firing will be heavy, but these are the two spots to watch. In the face of Minnesota’s awesome rout of Purdue’s previously undefeated Boilermakers, $50, at Min neapolis last Saturday, it would appear that Northwestern’s chances are none too bright, but the Wildcats applied no more pressure than was necessary in halting Illinois, 1872. Fordham, handing st. Mary’s Gaels their first setback, 7–6, and outplaying the visitors by a wide margin, will take a perfect record into its combat with Pittsburgh. whose Pam thers developed astonishing power in a 26–0 conquest Of Notre Dame, the worst defeat a South Bend team has accepted in IL years.

The Daily Alaska empire, October 26, 1936, page 5 (results column)
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EOOT BALL &0REsULTs The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: California 0; Washington 13. Washington State 3; Oregon 0. Southern California IA; Stanford ‘. Oregon State 13; UCLA g. Idaho 6; Nevada T. Nebraska IA; Oklahoma O. Michigan State T; Marquette 13. Providence 0; Boston College 26. Georgetown T. New York Univer- sity 2. Boston University 3; Villanova 25. Penn State ‘; Cornell IS. Detroit 20; Manhattan o. Purdue 0; Minnesota 33. St. Marys’ 6; Fordham ‘. Notre Dame 0; Pittsburgh 26. Northwestern 13; Illinois 9 Dartmouth 16; Harvard 2. Rutgers O; Yale 28. Brown 6; Penn 48. Springfield 0; Army B. Carnegie Tech 0; Holy Cross T. Indiana O.; Ohio State T. Navy 0; Princeton T. Tennessee Is; Duke 13. Auburn 20; Georgia 13. Georgia Tech 0; Vanderbilt 0. Mississippi IA; Catholic Univer- sity O. Michigan 13; Columbia O. Rice T; Texas 0. Mississippi State o; Texas Chris tian 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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Pittsburgh 59% to win. Pittsburgh pulled the upset. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Notre Dame–Pittsburgh gameOfficially, Notre Dame leads 51–21–1; as played, 52–21–1 in 74 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.
Around this game
Notre Dame
- Next gamevs. Ohio StateOct. 31, 1936
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1936
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records
Pittsburgh
- Next gamevs. FordhamOct. 31, 1936
- SeasonPittsburgh in 1936
- ProgramPittsburgh history and records

