Northwestern at Notre Dame
Saturday, November 21, 1936 Share
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.
FinalHigh 53°F, low 35°FAttendance 52,131
In the newspapers

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 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 6
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.
The series
Every Northwestern–Notre Dame gameNotre Dame leads 37–9–2 in 48 meetings, counting the 33 since this game.
Around this game
Northwestern
- Next gamevs. Iowa StateOct. 2, 1937
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1936
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records
Notre Dame
- Next gameat USCDec. 5, 1936
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1936
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records

