Navy at Notre Dame
Saturday, October 23, 1937 Share
Notre Dame beat Navy 9–7. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 8–3 as played.
FinalHigh 41°F, low 29°F, 1.81 in. of snowAttendance 45,000
In the newspapers

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 field
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.
The series
Every Navy–Notre Dame gameOfficially, Notre Dame leads 82–13–1; as played, 84–13–1 in 98 meetings, counting the 87 since this game.
| 2025 | Notre Dame 49, Navy 10 | |
| 2024 | Notre Dame 51, Navy 14 | |
| 2023 | Notre Dame 42, Navy 3 | |
| 2022 | Notre Dame 35, Navy 32 | |
| 2021 | Notre Dame 34, Navy 6 | |
| 2019 | Notre Dame 52, Navy 20 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaOct. 30, 1937
- SeasonNavy in 1937
- ProgramNavy history and records
Notre Dame
- Next gameat MinnesotaOct. 30, 1937
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1937
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records

