Pittsburgh at Notre Dame

Saturday, November 6, 1937

No. 3 Pittsburgh beat No. 12 Notre Dame 21–⁠6. It was their 11th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 5–⁠5–⁠1 as played.

Away3Pittsburgh9–⁠0–⁠1 in 1937
21
Home12Notre Dame6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1937
6

FinalHigh 56°F, low 28°FAttendance 54,309

In the newspapers

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story

    The Waterbury Democrat, November 12, 1937, page 16

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    Get It” from “Damsel in Distress and Ted Fio-Rito’s orchestra will play “Donkey’s Serenade” from “The Firehy” and Goodbye, Jonah” Two important football bat ties, the Alabama Georgia Tech and the N0tre- Dame Army games, will be described over the NEG networks on Saturday. Undefeated Alabama will at tempt to continue it’s winning Streak when it faces Georgia Tech, winners over Clemson in last Saturdays game, at Birm- ingham, Alabama. Fort Pearson, NEG Chicago announcer, will describe the game over the NBC-Blue Network beginning at 2:45 p. m., EST. The traditional Army–Notre Dame Game at the Yankee Stadium. New York, will be described by Bill Stern, NEG sports announcer, beginning at 1:15 p. m, EST, over the NBC- Red Network. Last Saturday Army eked out , to 6 victory over Harvard while NOtre Dame lost to Pittsburgh 21 to 6. Captain Bob Baker, that genial who takes his sound truck around to various motion picture lots to interview stars, vii, drive over to the Paramount studios during the Hollywood in Person over the WABC- Columbia network today from 1:45 to 200 D m., EST. Leo Carrillo, Jean Parker

  • The Evening star's story: tersectionaI Angle Prominent in Football Card Week 0UTLANDERS DEFY EAST'S BIG TEAMS Vital domestic" Tits Also LiSted-LoopS Little Hit by Upset Orgy.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 8, 1937, page 14 (results column)

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    tersectionaI Angle Prominent in Football Card Week 0UTLANDERS DEFY EAST’S BIG TEAMS Vital domestic” Tits Also LiSted-LoopS Little Hit by Upset Orgy. n YEW YORK, Nov. 8.-The sur nj prising development of last VI weeks uncalled-for revolt of 4 the football underdogs was that the fall of prime favorites caused SO little change in national and Sec tional championship races. Of the 16 major teams which had boasted undefeated records, only two, Baylor and Temple, were removed from the list. Conference or sectional rat tngs, except for the Southwest, where Rice supplanted Baylor in first place, remained virtually unchanged Nationally here’s how the undefeated list stood today: EaSt-Lafayette, undefeated and untied; Pitt, Fordham, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Villanova and Yale, each tied once. South-Alabama, undefeated and untied; Duke, tied once. Middle West-Nebraska tied twice. Far West-Santa Clara and Mon tana, undefeated and united; Cali fornia, tied once. Smart Eastern Card. This weeks program finds heavy stress laid on the intersectional angle, especially in the East, but vital Sec tlonal games will be played in every conference as well. Prospects for the leading games are about as follows: EAST: The principal spotlight falls on Pitts battle with Nebraska at Pitts burgh. The Panthers were sheer dynamite as Goldberg, Stebbins and Patrick smashed through Notre Danes de- Tense in a three-touchdown fourth period surge that earned Pitt a 21–⁠6 triumph last week. Nebraska, on the other hand had 70 come from behind to gain a I3-tol3 draw with Kansas in a major upset that left Nebraska,s hopes of a third successive Big Six championship somewhat on the dim side. Notre Dame will invade the East 70 give battle to Army, which took advantage of a Harvard tumble in the fourth quarter to pull out hardly deserved rs decision. Penn, out pointed by Penn State, TO, plays Michigan’s wolverines, who had to score twice in the last four minutes to nose out Chicago, 1912. Manhattan. TO upset conqueror of Detroit, will entertain North Carolina State, which ran up 26–⁠14 count on Citadel Penn State tackles tough Maryland, 81 victory over Virginia Military on Pershing Mandorff’s field goal.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BAIL @ lA{5SW{5 IFS Nl

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 8, 1937, page 3 (results column)

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    FOOT BAIL @ lA{5SW{5 IFS Nl The following are final scores oi principal football games played las Saturday afternoon: Kansas 13; Nebraska 13, tie. Minnesota 35; Iowa 10. Stanford 2; Southern California 6 University of Washington 0; Cali fornia 0. Washington State 6; Oregon 10. Washington State Freshmen O. University of Washington Freshmen 13. Brown o; Yale 19 Alabama 9; Tulane 6. Gonzaga O; Montana 23. Willamette O; Oregon State 20. Duquesne 0; Carnegie Tech 6. Chicago 12; Michigan 13. Purdue 3; Fordham 21. Dartmouth 33; Princeton 9 Penn State T; Penn 0. Michigan State 13; Temple 0. Army ‘; Harvard 6. Illinois 6; Northwestern o. p Pittsburgh 21; Notre Dame 6. Navy 13; Columbia 6.

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

  • FootballSHANGHAI FALLS! CHINESE SUICIDE SQUAD HOLDS WAREHOUSE AGAINST DRIVE (Photograph by George Krainukov and Norman Alley): SHANGHAI - The mighty Japanese military machine finally forces gallant Chinese defenders to abandon…Universal Newsreel, November 15, 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)

Pittsburgh 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 51–⁠21–⁠1; as played, 52–⁠21–⁠1 in 74 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Notre Dame 37, Pittsburgh 15
2023Notre Dame 58, Pittsburgh 7
2020Notre Dame 45, Pittsburgh 3
2018Notre Dame 19, Pittsburgh 14
2015Notre Dame 42, Pittsburgh 30
2013Pittsburgh 28, Notre Dame 21

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