Notre Dame at Northwestern

Saturday, November 23, 1940

No. 10 Northwestern beat No. 14 Notre Dame 20–⁠0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 14–⁠3–⁠2.

Away14Notre Dame7–⁠2 in 1940
0
Home10Northwestern6–⁠2 in 1940
20

FinalAttendance 48,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Gridiron Graphics

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 24, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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    Gridiron Graphics PRINCETON, N. j., Nov. 23.-R) Army football team had the and the will to win today, but Princeton had Dave Allerdice, and Dave Allerdice had a right arm, and the right arm pitched enough strikes to carry the Tigers to a rs to 10 victory in a game which kept 5000 fans alternately doing and in screaming frenzy. NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-P-The Columbia football Lion ate his old est jinx today and enjoyed the din ner immensely. For 20 years, the Lion had been trying to work on Colgate’s Red Raiders. And for ~ years., he had failed to satisfy his appetite. Today, he finally made 1t. With $4,000 spectators sitting in the Lions twice came from behind, took advantage of every break, and nipped the Red Raiders from the Chenango 20 to II. EVANSTON, ILL.,, Nov. 23.-P- Northwestern’s Wildcats, with blond Bill deCorrevont giving the greatest performance of his collegiate gridiron r handed Notre Dame a de cisive 20 to 0 licking before 4S,ooo spectators at Dyche stadium today Northwestern, in closing it’s season with a six victory in eight games, held the upper hand throughout the duel. scoring once in the seconc period and twice in the third. And it was ~deCorrevont, the most highly publicized prep player in the nation in 1887, who vas the principal cog in the powerful Northwestern attack which kept the Irish back on their heels most of the afternoon. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-R- Georgetown’s hefty Hoyas downee the George Washington Colonials 8 to 0 today in the capitals an nual city classic. E, For three periods, the mucf lighter Colonials held the Hoya: s%coreless, but in the third period with less than a minute to go Ben Bulvin stood on George Wash ington’s % and passed to TAX Kopcik, on the 7 and Mike took l over. Augio Lio’s kick for the extra point was no good. Throwing caution to the wind II the fourth George Washington triee a pass deep in its own territory and the play ended up in a satet, for, Georgetown. ATLANTA, Nov. 23-R-Now lei the frosts come and the tourists al 90 to California. Who cares? Mo- Florida’s football fans, because their beloved university today completed it’s first full conquest Of neighboring Georgia by trouncing Georgia Tech, 1877. PROVIDENCE, R. l., Nov. 23- R-Dartmouth’s uplifted Indians, hardened by their conceded” vic tory over once-mighty Cornell, displayed new fire and dash today as they wound up their season by trouncing Brown, 20–⁠6, before a drenched crowd Of $1,000. While

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

  • N'WESTERN ROUTS NOTRE DAME, 20-0The "Irish" suffer their worst defeat in four years, as the Northwestern "Wildcats" claw the South Bend team into stubborn submission. Clawson and DeCorrevont star for the winnersUniversal Newsreel, November 25, 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)

Northwestern 50% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 37–⁠9–⁠2 in 48 meetings, counting the 29 since this game.

Recent meetings
2018Notre Dame 31, Northwestern 21
2014Northwestern 43, Notre Dame 40
1995Northwestern 17, Notre Dame 15
1994Notre Dame 42, Northwestern 15
1993Notre Dame 27, Northwestern 12
1992Notre Dame 42, Northwestern 7

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