Navy vs. Notre Dame

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 31, 1943, page 1

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  Irish Ace Has Part in Scoring Of Il Points CLEVELAND. Oct. 30-Angelo Bertelli sang his swan song for Notre Dame today in mammoth Municipal stadium and il turned out 10 be a funeral dirge for hard-hghting Navy, 33 TO 6. The magician OF the Irish back field threw three touc h d ow n passes. scored another touchdown on line buck and kicked three extra points 20 figure in scoring q Of his teams points. Just before the end OF the game, Frank Leahy dramatically lled his star from the battle I’D and the crowd of $1,000 gave him an ovation that might have been heard all the way down on Paris Island. where he is headed 10 complete his training for the United States marines.

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  Evening star, October 31, 1943, page 1

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  Notre Dame Crushes Navy as Army, Penn Battle to 1913 Tie Notre Dame added to it’s prestige as the Nations No. football team by crushing Navy yesterday at Cleveland, 1876, while Army and Penn staged 1913 deadlock, and Southern California and Purdue continued on the unbeaten path. 1t was Navy’s first licking of the season, and $4,000 saw the Irish, again led by Bertelli, stage another scoring parade. Maryland trimmed Green vile IS. c. Air Base, 43–⁠18, ON the losers field. Roosevelt downed Western in a high school series tilt, 10 to 0. Details on sports pages.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 1, 1943, page 5

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  NAVY 5M0THERED BY N0TRE DAME AND, Nov, 1.-Notre Dame made long stride last Sat urday afternoon for the national championship for the first perfect season since 1930. They smothered the hitherto unbeaten and united Navy 33 to 6. Angelo Bertilli, quarte b a k passer, in his last college game for the duration, passed eight times, five of which were completed for touchdowns. The first three mark CTS put the game on ice. He scored the final touchdown himself and three try points.

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 82–⁠13–⁠1; as played, 84–⁠13–⁠1 in 98 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.