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Purdue at Notre Dame

Saturday, September 30, 1939

Notre Dame beat Purdue 3–⁠0. It was their 17th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 11–⁠4–⁠2 as played.

AwayPurdue3–⁠3–⁠2 in 1939
0
HomeNotre Dame7–⁠2 in 1939
3

FinalAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Keee Sng Quarter Boots Notre Dame 80 Win Over Purdue 10000 Storm Griffith Stadium Today Redskins Open Pro Season Here Win, Lose or Draw 1t Happened in Football

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 1, 1939, page 63

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    Keee Sng Quarter Boots Notre Dame 80 Win Over Purdue 10000 Storm Griffith Stadium Today Redskins Open Pro Season Here Win, Lose or Draw 1t Happened in Football Redskins a. New York Giants 10Iis strictly The doesn’t off until this afternoon We just think the Redskins going knock off the the by touch downs while Bo Russell adds two extra points The Giants scoring will consist touchdown point field goal by Ward Cuff There will be extra charge for the information Redskins and of for Mr. George Presto Marshall time Marshall been campaign baseball today he Grandpappy Grhs bayard sold for this will record crowd for the Seventh Florida pasture The last time the packed to absolute capacity wasn’t this opening then wasn’t filled If weren’t for the fact that Mr. Steve Owens Giants still have something despite deahess dicton a much, anyway

  • The The Nome nugget's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 2, 1939, page 1

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    FOOTBALL SCORES New York University 7-Col- gate 6 Thurman Army Is Purdue 0-.Notre Dame 3 Pittsburg 27-Washington 6 Oregon State 12-Standard 0 Montant State 6-Standard 0 Oregon 7-Southern California ‘.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 2, 1939, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES The folIowing are final scores of leading football games played last Saturday afternoon. Pittsburgh 27; University of Washington 6. Oregon State 12: Stanford 0. Montana State 6; Idaho T. Oregon State T. Southern Oalifor- mia ‘, tie. New York University T; Colgate 6. Furman T, Army Is. Purdue 0; Notre Dame 3. Missouri 30; Colorado 0. Arizona 0: Minnesota 62. South Dakota o; Iowa Al. Illinois 0; Bradley 0. Clemson 6; Tulane T. Duke 26; Davidson 6. Virginia Military Institute 0; Kentucky 21. Florida O; Texas 6. Wuttenberg o; Carnegie Tech 35 Wake Forest 6; North Carolina 36. Detroit IA; Western Michigan State 0. Vanderbilt IS; Rice 12 Montana State g: Portland Uni yersity 0. Mississippi IA; Louisiana State T. SUNDAY GAME St. MarY,s IS. Gonzaga 0.

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

  • GRIDIRON THRILLS OF THE WEEKNOTRE DAME'S "FIGHTING IRISH" MEET A STUBBORN PURDUE "ELEVEN" BUT MANAGE TO EKE OUT A 3-0 VICTORY WITH KELLEHER'S FIELD GOALUniversal Newsreel, October 2, 1939. 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 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Purdue–Notre Dame game

Officially, Notre Dame leads 60–⁠26–⁠2; as played, 62–⁠26–⁠2 in 90 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Notre Dame 49, Purdue 10
2025Notre Dame 56, Purdue 30
2024Notre Dame 66, Purdue 7
2021Notre Dame 27, Purdue 13
2014Notre Dame 30, Purdue 14
2013Notre Dame 31, Purdue 24

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