Notre Dame vs. Army

Saturday, November 4, 1939

No. 4 Notre Dame beat Army 14–⁠0. It was their 26th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 19–⁠5–⁠2.

Neutral site4Notre Dame7–⁠2 in 1939
14
Neutral siteArmy3–⁠4–⁠2 in 1939
0

FinalHigh 51°F, low 32°FAttendance 75,632

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: NOTRE DAME IN SIXTH VICTORY; WALL0pS ARMY

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 6, 1939, page 5

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    NOTRE DAME IN SIXTH VICTORY; WALL0pS ARMY NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Working on the customary margin of profit, the well manned Notre Dame team ran it’s seasons winning streak to six straight by making the most Of two breaks last Saturday afternoon to whip the game but outclassed Army IA to O. The crowd of more than 75,0O0 saw the Irish go 30 yards in three plays after recovering an Army tumble to a touchdown, then, behind expert blocking, send sub halfback Steve Bagarus scooting 43 yards down the sidelines with fourth quarter m- tercepted pass for another touch down.

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores November 4

    The Nome nugget, November 6, 1939, page 3 (results column)

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    Football Scores November 4 Iowa 4-Purdue o Texas Aggies 21-Arkansas 0 Duke 7-Georgia Tech 6 Nebraska 13-MisSouri 27 Northwestern 14-MinneSota 2 Kentucky 7-Alabama ‘, tie Michigan 7-Illinois 16 Tennessee 20-Louisian State c Washington 9-Montana 0 Idaho 19-Utah State ? Oregon 38-Washington State 0 Southern California 19- Ore gen State 2 Santa Clara 27-Stanford ‘ UCLA 20-California Notre Dame 14-Army 0 Rice 7-Fordham 13 Navy 6-Penn 13 Harvard 6-Princeton 9 Columbia 7-Cornell 13 Pitt 13-Temple 7 Indiana 0-Ohio Etate 27 St. Marys 6-Dayton Univer- sity 6 San Francisco University IA Loyalo Los Angeles ‘ Texas Christian 0-Baylor 27

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

  • NOTRE DAME BEATS ARMY73,000 football fans see the "Fighting Irish," in full stride at last, defeat a gallant "Cadet" team, 14-0Universal Newsreel, November 6, 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 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 40–⁠8–⁠4 in 52 meetings, counting the 26 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Notre Dame 49, Army 14
2016Notre Dame 44, Army 6
2010Notre Dame 27, Army 3
2006Notre Dame 41, Army 9
1998Notre Dame 20, Army 17
1995Notre Dame 28, Army 27

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