Navy at Notre Dame

Saturday, October 23, 1937

Notre Dame beat Navy 9–⁠7. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 8–⁠3 as played.

AwayNavy4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1937
7
HomeNotre Dame6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1937
9

FinalHigh 41°F, low 29°F, 1.81 in. of snowAttendance 45,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story

    The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 29, 1937, page 11

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    matic set, tries to escape for a short time. With his aid, he drives to an old plantation home in Virginia where he meets a young Southern belle with whom he falls in love Hollywood Playhouse, heard over the NBC-Blue Network, is present. ed from 800 to 9:So p. m, EST, every Sunday. The clash between the Univer- Sity of Minnesota and the Notre Dame University football teams at Minneapolis will be described by Bill Stern, NEG sports announcer, tomorrow, beginning at 2:45 p. In., EST, over the NBC-Blue Network. Although both teams have been beaten, Minnesota by Nebraska and NOtre Dame by Carnegie Tech, football experts predict brighter future and consider them as two of the strongest teams in the country. Last Saturday Min nesOta steam -rollered to an im- presSive S9 to6 victory over Mich igan and Notre Dame beat fight ing Navy team 9 to7.

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

  • NEW DIZZY DERBY UNDER WAYNotre Dame squeezes out a 9 to 7 victory over Navy as a swirling snowstorm deposits a heavy blanked of white on the fieldUniversal Newsreel, October 25, 1937. 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 60% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 82–⁠13–⁠1; as played, 84–⁠13–⁠1 in 98 meetings, counting the 87 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Notre Dame 49, Navy 10
2024Notre Dame 51, Navy 14
2023Notre Dame 42, Navy 3
2022Notre Dame 35, Navy 32
2021Notre Dame 34, Navy 6
2019Notre Dame 52, Navy 20

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