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Pacific at Notre Dame

Saturday, October 5, 1940

Notre Dame beat Pacific 25–⁠7. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayPacific0–⁠2 in 1940
7
HomeNotre Dame7–⁠2 in 1940
25

FinalHigh 84°F, low 61°FAttendance 22,670

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Notre Dame 25-7

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 6, 1940, page 1

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    Notre Dame 25–⁠7 SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. SIP -Notre Dame, perennial contend err for the National football cham pionship, swept over Amos Alonzo Stages little college of the Pacific team today, Is to 7, opening the 1910 campaign with an impressive display of power and deception. Stage, beginning his 51st year as a coach, put a courageous and smart eleven on the field, but was overpoWered by the abundant tai ent of the fighting Irish.

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 TROUNCES PACIFIC, 25-7"Fighting Irish" power proves too much for the Pacific College gridders, who bow before the "Irish" by a big marginUniversal Newsreel, October 7, 1940. 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 92% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Pacific–Notre Dame game

Notre Dame leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

Around this game

Pacific

Notre Dame