USC at Notre Dame

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 26, 1939, page 1

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  Trojons Beot |rish,’ 20 to II; @. w. u. Noses Out BuckneI| Southern CALIFORNIA; unbeaten Trojans, driving ahead toward another Rose Bowl assignment, knocked off Notre Dame yesterday as Cornell, Missouri, Texas A. and NJ, Ohio State and Glenn son and Duke clinched official or unofficial sectional football cham pionships. The Trojans pushed over two touchdowns in wild fourth pc riod to hand Notre Dame its Sec ond defeat of the season, 20–⁠12. George Washington, the only District team whose regular season is unfinished, wound up its home campaign by nosing out Bucknell, 7–⁠6, at Griffith Stadium. 1t was the Colonials’ fourth VIC tory as against three defeats. Cornell, unbeaten and united, buried Penn under a 26–⁠0 count at Philadelphia and won the unofficial recognition as the East’s outstanding team. Duke and Clemson, winding UP with victories, gained halt -shares

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.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 51–⁠37–⁠5; as played, 53–⁠38–⁠5 in 96 meetings, counting the 82 since this game.