Notre Dame vs. Army

Saturday, November 14, 1936

Notre Dame beat Army 20–⁠6. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 16–⁠5–⁠2.

Neutral siteNotre Dame6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1936
20
Neutral siteArmy6–⁠3 in 1936
6

FinalHigh 54°F, low 33°FAttendance 74,423

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BALL 4s1REsULTs

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 16, 1936, page 5 (results column)

    Read the text

    FOOT BALL 4s1REsULTs The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington State 31; UCLA T. Southern California 0; Washing ton 12. Oregon O; California 28. Stanford 20; Oregon State IA. Idaho 0; Montana 16. Tennessee 26; Vanderbilt 13. Brigham Young T; Denver Uni versity 35 Colorado University 13; Utah Ag gies A. Arkansas IT; Southern Methodist 0. Notre Dame 20; Army 6. Northern g; Michigan 0. Holy Cross 32; Brown 0. Georgetown 0; Manhattan 13. Syracuse O; Columbia IT, Villanova o; Temple 6. Penn State 12; Penn 19 Duquesne 13; Carnegie Tech 0. Indiana 20; Chicago T. Navy 20; Harvard 13. Duke 27 North Carolina ‘. North Carolina State 6; Catholic University ‘. Yale 26 Princeton g. Dartmouth 20; Cornell 6. Rutgers o; New York University 46. Purdue IS; Iowa O. Cincinnati 6; Wisconsin IT. Iowa State T. Kansas State AT. Texas 19; Minnesota AT. Michigan State Al; Kansas O. Ohio State 13; Illinois 0. Pittsburgh 19; Nebraska 6. Tulsa 21; Drake 6. Missouri 21; Oklahoma IA Mississippi 0; Marquette 33. Alabama 20; Georgia Tech Is. Georgie l2. Tulane G. Louisiana State i9; Auburn 6. SUNDAY GAMES Santa Clara 19, St. Mary’s o. GonZaga IA; Portland University 13.

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 15, 1936, page 34 (results column)

    Read the text

    Northwestern’s undefeated and united Wildcats completed their foot ball sweep through the Big Ten Conference yesterday as Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Minnesota chalked up impressive intersectional triumphs and Yale’s Bull dogs, paced by their great end, Larry Kelley, toppled Princeton in a sensational second-half drive, 1928. Northwestern had to overcome surprisingly sturdy resistance from Michigan’s Wolverines, but won, go, for the Wildcats sixth consecutive conference victory. Meanwhile, a record crowd Of 80, 900 packed the Yankee Stadium to watch Notre Dame. which will play Northwestern next week, take advantage of all its opportunities and humble the Army, 20–⁠6. Nebraska’s hopes Of breaking the Pittsburgh jinx went tumbling in the dust at Lincoln as the hard bitten Panthers flashed an effective running and passing attack that carried them to q 1876 triumph. their seventh in IL games with the Huskers. Nebraska has beaten the Panthers only once and tied them three times. Minnesota’s gridiron juggernaut nattened the Texas 1tonghorns, Al

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

  • THRILLS PACK GRID CONTESTSNotre Dame springs a big surprise, beating Army 20 to 6Universal Newsreel, November 16, 1936. Watch 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 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 40–⁠8–⁠4 in 52 meetings, counting the 29 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Notre Dame 49, Army 14
2016Notre Dame 44, Army 6
2010Notre Dame 27, Army 3
2006Notre Dame 41, Army 9
1998Notre Dame 20, Army 17
1995Notre Dame 28, Army 27

Around this game