Navy vs. Notre Dame

Saturday, October 31, 1942

No. 4 Notre Dame beat Navy 9–⁠0. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 13–⁠3 as played.

Neutral siteNavy5–⁠4 in 1942
0
Neutral site4Notre Dame7–⁠2–⁠2 in 1942
9

FinalHigh 48°F, low 35°FAttendance 66,699

In the newspapers

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 2, 1942, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES i. The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Lafayette T; Bucknell 13. Carnegie Tech 6; Pitt l9. Navy 0; Notre Dame 9. St. Mary’s 0; Fordham ‘. Springfield 0; Rutgers 21. Colby 6; Maine 29. William and Mary 35; Dartmouth IA. Wooster 13; Mount Union O. Army 0; Penn 19. Dennison 6, Otterbein 0. North Carolina Pliers 9; Syra- cuSe O. Florida o, Maryland 13. Tufts 6; Northeastern 6, tie. Rensselaer, 0; Coast Guard 33. West Virginia 24; Penn State 0. Brown O; Yale 27. Georgetown 0; Boston College AT. Georgia Tech 26; Duke T. Purdue q; Iowa l3. Ohio University 39; Miami 13. Depauw 0; Butler 39. Iowa Cadets 26; Indiana 6. Michigan State T; Temple T, tie. Hempen Sydney G. Leigh 51. Hamilton 0; Swartmore 8. Penn Military IA; Delaware l9. North Carolina IA: North Caro- lima State 2l. Virginia Tech 20; Virginia IA. Alabama 10; Georgia 2l. Colgate 6; Holy Cross 6. tie. Princeton IA; Harvard l9. Northwestern ‘; Minnesota 19. Buffalo 26; John Hopkins 6. Illinois IA; Michigan 28. Cornell 13; Columbia IA. Oklahoma IA; Iowa State ‘. Mississippi State 6; Auburn 0. Western Maryland IA; Franklin Marshall l4, tie. City College of New York 20; Hobart 6. Southern Methodist T; Texas 2I. College of Pacific 0; Fresno l3. Occidental 27; Redlands 6. Ellendale Normal IS; Jamestown College 26. McAlister 13; St. Mary’s (second team ‘. Carleton IA; St. Olaf 2. Foss Poly 60; Franklin 2l. Centre 40; Hanover 12. Grinnell 13; Coe 6. Wesleyan 0; Case 25. Mississippi 48; Memphis o. Clemson 6; Wake Forest l9. Marshall 13; Dayton 20. Chattanooga 40; Rollins 6. Oregon State 0; University of Washington 13. Colorado State IA; Utah 33. Texas Tech ‘; Rice IT. Oklahoma A & M 20; Creighton 6. Great Lakes IT; Missouri o. Baylor 10; Texas Christian T. Nebraska IA; Kansas 2. Louisiana State 0; Tennessee 26. Vanderbilt 2l; Tulane 28. Arkansas o; Texas A & M 41. South Dakota 0; Iowa Teachers 36.. Oregon T; California 20. Idaho 21; Montana 0. Stanford T; UCLA 20. New Mexico 0; Nevada 0, tie. Wisconsin IT; Ohio State ‘. SUNDAY GAMES Santa Clara 8; San Francisco 6. St. Louis 20; Loyola at Los An- geles 6.

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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Notre Dame 68% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 82–⁠13–⁠1; as played, 84–⁠13–⁠1 in 98 meetings, counting the 82 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Notre Dame 49, Navy 10
2024Notre Dame 51, Navy 14
2023Notre Dame 42, Navy 3
2022Notre Dame 35, Navy 32
2021Notre Dame 34, Navy 6
2019Notre Dame 52, Navy 20

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