Notre Dame at Pittsburgh
Saturday, September 25, 1943 Share
Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 41–0. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 6–5–1 as played.
FinalHigh 58°F, low 45°FAttendance 43,437
In the newspapers

The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., September 26, 1943, page 8
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Notre Dame Shows Power In Smothering Pitt, 40 PITTSBURGH, Sept. rs R – They spelled football with two rs here this afternoon. but one of the rs was silent. The result was a 41–0 victory for Notre Dame over the hapless Pittsburgh Painters, with both teams using the popular T formation. A record opening crowd of co. 600. lured by the magic of Notre Dame and the debut of Clark Shaughnessy as Pitt coach, sat in on the kill and discovered that everything said about each team was true-that the Irish have poWder-laden, smooth-functioning outfit predominantly veteran and that Pitt is. as Shaughnessy term ed. “a fine high school team

The daily monitor leader, Mount Clemens, Mich., October 1, 1943, page 10 (results column)
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Notre Dame, Michigan, Southern Cal. are Choices as Combined Operations Ventures Collide in College Football NEW YORK, Oct. - Col leges blessed by the Navy and putting combined operations ventures on the field 49, with sailors, marines and civilians participating – have had things pretty much their own way in the early going. What will hap pen when they clash? Well, well find out Saturday afternoon when Georgia Tech invades Notre Dame, Michigan tackles Northwestern al Evans ton and Southern California deploys against California at Berkeley. Georgia Techs 20–7 victory over North Carolina was vastly more impressive than Notre Danes 41–0 runaway against undermined Pittsburgh, yet lean 10 the Irish IN South Bend, even though the Engineers open with strapping fullback named Scharfschwerdt. Frank Leahy and the Notre Dame varsity are smarting for revenge. The Rambling Wreck was a neat package a year ago, too, but caught the lads of the Golden Dome before Leahy had Smoothed out the wrinkles of the newly adopted T. Michigan’s steamroller bumps into stern competition for the first time in Northwestern, which – the phenomenal Otto Graham cracker and all-hasn { enough TO check 1t California did not sd w enough against the Saint Mary S freshmen to warrant picking the Bears over Southern California Cornell has the manpoWer and Carl Snavely the Well-conceived plays, but Navy isn’t being trifled with this fall, so it’s the Middies in a night game in Bal timore. Capable Colgate shaded for midable Rochester on passes, but this week it’s the Army. Mr.. Jones. Pennsylvania should get over Yale, Columbia over Princeton. Holy Cross over Brown, and Bucknell over Muhlenberg. Purdue has altogether tomuch for Illinois peagreens in the initial Battle for the Cam non, which goes for Minnesota against Nebraska and Wisconsin against Iowa. | look for Ohio States kids, who made such a fine stand against the Iowa Pre- Flight professionals, to hurdle Missouri club which made an excellent showing against Min nesota. Oklahoma is given a shaky vote over Oklahoma A. e. M. North Cardinals Tarheels are
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 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Notre Dame–Pittsburgh gameOfficially, Notre Dame leads 51–21–1; as played, 52–21–1 in 74 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.
Around this game
Notre Dame
- Next gamevs. Georgia TechOct. 2, 1943
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1943
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records
Pittsburgh
- Next gameat Great Lakes NavyOct. 2, 1943
- SeasonPittsburgh in 1943
- ProgramPittsburgh history and records

