Notre Dame vs. Army

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 7, 1943, page 1

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  |BerteIIi’ S Sub losses I AeridIs |For Touchdowns NEW YORK. Nov 6 tUP)- Young Johnny Lujsck proved an able replacement for Angelo Bertell as he tossed two touchdown passes and scored once 10 lead the unbeaten Fighting Irish OF Notre Dame 10 a 26–⁠0 victory over Army before capacity crowd of 5000 al Yankee sta dunn today As Notre Dame registered its seventh straight victory OF the season. its green-jersied masters of the ‘T’ smashed and bonn barded the black-and- gold “T’‘ users from West Point in a man ner not fully disclosed by tho score. Notre Dame spanked today by Johnny Lujack, the Connellsville Annon. who replaced great An 10 Bertelli at quarterback. scored in every period except the second.

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 8, 1943, page 5 (results column)

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  LUJACK HANDLES BERTELLI’S SPOT Is Year Old Lad Keeps Strong Irish Club Together NEW YORK, Nov. 7. up – If you are Notre Dame alumnus, real or synthetic, and are worried about the football team now that Johnny Lujack has replaced the transferred Angelo Bertelli at quarterback, forget it If you are coaching the Great Lakes, Northwestern University or Iowa SeahaWk elevens and think that the Irish may be softer because Of Lujack’s presence, stop it And if you are just at a casual football fan and are doubtful that the Notre Dame outfit, called the games greatest in some quarters, can keep that ranking with the erstWhile sub as boss, quit it Because John GW Lujack is good. The 18-year-old youngster made his debut as starting quarterback for the Irish Saturday in their 26 to 0 victory over Army in New York before some $4,000 fans and completed eight of Is passes for ITS yards, hit his target in the end zone twice for touchdoWns, banged over another personally and played full 60 minutes of rugged football. His generalship was satisfactory even to Coach Frank Leahy, man hard tc please, and Lujack’s defensive ability brought recognitic from 1t. Col. Earl Blaik, coach OF the Cadets. Notre Dame probably didn’t gain anything when the Connellsville, Pa, youth took over but it is also definite that they didn’ tlose either While the ramblers were tack ing the seventh straight victory on their record, Purdue remained undefeated by scoring in the final 40 seconds to beat Minnesota, IA to 7; Michigan, Navy, Northwest ern, Duke, Texas A & M, Georgia Tech and Dartmouth all triumph ed handsomely but Southern Cali fornia was spilled by San Diego Naval and its own errors, 10 to Z. Little Harold Hamberg brought Navy it’s “a to victory over Penn sylvania with Bob Odell getting the lone Quaker counter; OFT Ora ham virtually was Northwestern’s entire offense in downing Wiscon- SIN, Al to 0; Elroy Hirsch engineer ed Michigan’s % to 6 win over Indiana and Don Kasprzak was Dartmouth big gun in the ATT to 10 verdict over Columbia. Eddie Prokop and his Georgia Tech mates stopped Louisiana States bowl boom, apt, while Tex as A & M blanked an out-manned Southern Methodist aggregation, % to 0. Duke, despite the loss OF horde of naval trainees, trounced North Carolina State, rs to 0. There were other surprises in Saturdays results in addition to the Trojan setback. Texas Tech blazed for % points in the final quarter to down Texas Christian, 40 to 20; Villanova surprised Prince ton As to %, and Brown nosed out Yale, 81 to 20, on the two points gained from a safety. 1t was a dreary weekend in the Hawkeye state. Illinois spoiled Is to 10; Missouri gave the same treatment to the Iowa State Cyclones before returning alumni, Is to Z, and Doane College showed Drake from the unbeaten list, IL to 6. Oklahoma kept pace with Missouri, in the Big Six by downing Kansas, rs to ID, while Tulsa found Oklahoma A & M easy, SIS to 6. Ohio State approached that score in drubbing Pittsburgh, As to 6. Wake Forest caught the North Carolina Pre-Flight outfit in the midst of it’s reorganization and won, 20 to IL, and North Carolina mastered South Carolina, q to 8. Notre Dame invades Evanston this week for its annual tussle with Northwestern before closing out its schedule against the Great Lakes Sailors and the SeahaWks. Michigan bumps into hapless Wis consin and Missouri entertalns Oklahoma for the Big Six crowd. Army may have another rough afternoon with the Sampson Naval Station club, coached by Nal Ste vens, late of Yale and New York and Navy comes to New York for a workout against Columbia. Penn entertains North Carolina while Georgia Tech char ges into New Orleans for Tulane’s scalp. Southern California bumps into March Field, generally regarded as a stronger team than the San Diego outfit. Texas and Texas A & M prep for their Thanksgiving Day meeting by playing Texas Chris tan and Rice, respectively.

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Notre Dame leads 40–⁠8–⁠4 in 52 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.