Kansas at Notre Dame

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 2, 1938, page 35

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  NOTRE DAME RUNS TO $40 TRIUMPH Kansas Is Helpless Before Finest Ground Play of Recent Irish Teams. 6y tHc h6SOCldlcQ FIeSS. SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 1.--Notre Danes 5lst football team, sparked by classy sophomore and powered by al most score Of hard-runing ball car riers. rolled over Kansas, SO to 0, today. Opening their second half century of football, the Irish” scored in every period to rout the Jayhawks and give promise of producing one of the strongest running games in recent Notre Dame gridiron history. Something Of rarity in the Irish” system, a first-year star, played a brilliant role in the triumph. Bob Saggau Of Denison, Iowa, 6-foot sophomore, broke away for the longest touchdown run of the afternoon, 81 yards, and otherwise gave a brilliant account Of himself. Kansas, unable to crack consistently the strong Irish” forward wall, relied largely on passes and in Sophomore Ralph Miller had tosser of high caliber. In the final period two aerials carried Kansas to the Notre Dame IA for the Jayhawks’ best scoring bid, but an intercepted pass ruined that opportunity. It was the fourth and final time during the game that Kansas advanced past midfield. The “1rish,” in opening their difIicult nine-game schedule, piled up 1872 yards by rushing, with fast-charging line playing well both on defense and onense. Miller’s accurate passing completed Z Of “a aerial attempts and only an alert Irish” secondary prevented higher number of completions. Notre Dame used more than four teams.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 3, 1938, page 5 (results column)

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  FOOT BAIL @ {3{5SW{5 IFS Ne The following are results of prin- cipal football games played last Sat- urday Columbia 27; Yale IA. Indiana 0; Ohio State 6. Nebraska T: Minnesota Is. Brown 20 Harvard 13. Michigan State O; Michigan IA. Army 39; Virginia Tech 0. --~‘‘N+‘e c. pnnnsylvania 34 Boston 6; Lehigh 6. dc ‘: M,ssouri 14. Purdue 21; Butler 6. kansas 0; Notre Dame 52. Kansas State 0, Northwestern 21. University of Washington 12; Idaho 12. U.CL,A 12: Oregon IA California 27; Washington State 3. Pittsburgh 23; Temple 6.

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Notre Dame leads 4–⁠1–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the one since this game.