Northwestern at Notre Dame

Saturday, November 21, 1936

No. 11 Notre Dame beat No. 1 Northwestern 26–⁠6. It was their 15th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 11–⁠2–⁠2.

Away1Northwestern7–⁠1 in 1936
6
Home11Notre Dame6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1936
26

FinalHigh 53°F, low 35°FAttendance 52,131

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 22, 1936, page 30 (results column)

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    “A yoTRE DANES Fighting M Irish yesterday wrecked VI Northwestern’s dream Of / Y an undefeated season in almost exactly the same way that the Wildcats had done it to Notre Dame a year ago and provided the foundation for the weekly list Of gridiron surprises today in the pre- Thanksgiving climax of the 1885 season. The final score of 26–⁠6 left no doubt as to the superiority Of the “hot and cold” Notre Dame team for this particular afternoon over the Big Ten champions. 1t was no more surprising. however, than the feat of the Georgia Bulldogs in holding Fordham to TT tie; Yale’s sensational l4-l3 triumph over Harvard before $1,000 fans in the battle for the Big Three title; the scoreless tie between Holy Gross and little st. Anselm or Indiana’s remarkable rally to tie Purdue at 1920. Instead of the rout that had been indicated by the first-half proceedings, Yale and Capt. Larry Kelley had all 1t could do to hold of a Crimson rally and win by

  • The The Nome daily nugget's story: Scores Of Football Games Saturday

    The Nome daily nugget, November 21, 1936, page 4 (results column)

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    Scores Of Football Games Saturday Georgia ‘ Fordham 2 tie. Harvard 13 Yale IA Marquette 0 Duquesne 13 Iowa 25 Temple 0 Arizona 0 Michigan State 2 Colgate 13 Syracuse 0 Dartmouth 13 Princeton 13 tie Hobart ‘ Army 51 Michigan 0 Ohio State 21 City College N. Y. 2 N Y U 25 Lehigh IS Lafayette 0 Bucknell 0 Penn State IA Northwestern 6 Notre Dame 26

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

  • GRIDDERS SCORE IN UPSETSThe Fighting Irish beat the conquerors of Minnesota as Notre Dame takes Northwestern, 26 to 6Universal Newsreel, November 23, 1936. 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 62% to win. Notre Dame pulled the upset. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 37–⁠9–⁠2 in 48 meetings, counting the 33 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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