Notre Dame at USC

Saturday, December 5, 1936

Notre Dame and USC tied 13–⁠13. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 6–⁠4–⁠1 as played.

AwayNotre Dame6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1936
13
HomeUSC4–⁠2–⁠3 in 1936
13

FinalHigh 28°F, low 13°FAttendance 71,201

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Te,ps Bo,c Notre Dame Trojans Tie ST. Ma Beats Temple PUNY PUNTSLEAD TO 1}7 OWL LOSS Warmers Men, 0utWeighed, Make Game Struggle, Score on tumble.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, December 6, 1936, page 36

    Read the text

    Te,ps Bo,c Notre Dame Trojans Tie ST. Ma Beats Temple PUNY PUNTSLEAD TO 1}7 OWL LOSS Warmers Men, 0utWeighed, Make Game Struggle, Score on tumble. - AN FRANCISCO, December Op). - st. Mary’s Gaels capped an Indifferent foot ball season in ~ brilliant fashion today with a l3-to-7 intersectional victory over Glenn Warmers light but tricky Tenn pie University Owls. Quarterback DavidSon’s weak kicks in the second and third periods paved the way for ST. Mary’s touchdowns. The boys from the other side Of the continent, small compared to the warriors tutored by Slip Madigan. were outscored but were far from outclaSsed They seized an opportunity early in the second quarter to convert a ST. Mary’S tumble into touchdown and, converting the extra point, led until the fourth period. Owls Score on tumble. THE Temple score followed a tumble by Right Half Hugh Sill. with the ball bouncing over the goal line, where speedy Left End Ed Walker fell on it, Bill Docherty, captain and left tackle, added the extra tally. Midway of the third period David son punted from his own 2-yard line. The Gaels took possession on the 20. Charges at the line moved the ball to the l-foot line and Fullback Markham smashed through for the initial st. Mary’s score on third down The point conversion failed. Shortly after the last period opened Davidson punted from his own II and the ball sliced out of bounds on the 80. Two line plays netted Z yards and Left Half OLaughlin passed to Sub stitute Righ End Austin over the goal. behind the Temple secondary. Quarterback Ferry place-kicked the extra point.

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

  • FootballIRISH, TROJANS DEADLOCKED (Pre-Released Chicago & Los Angeles): LOS ANGELES, CA - The Ramblers of Notre Dame and the Trojans of Southern California stage a frantic revival of their encounter on the gridiron.Universal Newsreel, December 7, 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 58% to win.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 51–⁠37–⁠5; as played, 53–⁠38–⁠5 in 96 meetings, counting the 85 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Notre Dame 34, USC 24
2024Notre Dame 49, USC 35
2023Notre Dame 48, USC 20
2022USC 38, Notre Dame 27
2021Notre Dame 31, USC 16
2019Notre Dame 30, USC 27

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