Notre Dame at Northwestern

Saturday, November 20, 1937

No. 12 Notre Dame beat Northwestern 7–⁠0. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 12–⁠2–⁠2.

Away12Notre Dame6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1937
7
HomeNorthwestern4–⁠4 in 1937
0

FinalAttendance 42,573

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BALL ga IA{3SW{5 is re

    The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, November 22, 1937, page 1 (results column)

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    FOOT BALL ga IA{3SW{5 is re The following are final scores of principal football games played last afternoon: Oregon 0; Washington A. Washington State 7; oregon State 0. California 10; Stanford 0. Montana 0; Idaho 6. Loyola 10; Baylor 81. Kansas z; Arizona 9. Texas Tech. Z; Centenary 2. Southern Methodist 26; UCLA 10. Harvard 10; Yale g. Dartmouth 81; Columbia o. Pittsburgh %; Penn State 7. Holy Cross o; Carnegie Tech 0, tie. Colgate 7; Syracuse 0. Fordham 6; st. Mary’s O. Princeton 26; Navy 6. Minnesota 10; Wisconsin 6. Notre Dame 7; Northwestern 0. Texas Christian Z; Rice 0. Illinois 81; Chicago 0, Duke TO- North Carolina State T.. Purdue 10; Indiana T. SUNDAY GAMES Gonzaga 3; Portland University 3.

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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Northwestern 50% to win. Notre Dame won as Elo’s underdog.

Notre Dame leads 37–⁠9–⁠2 in 48 meetings, counting the 32 since this game.

Recent meetings
2018Notre Dame 31, Northwestern 21
2014Northwestern 43, Notre Dame 40
1995Northwestern 17, Notre Dame 15
1994Notre Dame 42, Northwestern 15
1993Notre Dame 27, Northwestern 12
1992Notre Dame 42, Northwestern 7

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