Notre Dame vs. Army
Saturday, November 11, 1944 Share
No. 1 Army beat No. 5 Notre Dame 59–0. It was their 31st meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 22–6–3.
Finallow 50°FAttendance 74,437
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, November 14, 1944, page 2
Read the text
IRISH COACH SAYS BLAME L0SS ON HIM NEW YORK, Nov. 14-Ed Me Keever, Notre Dame coach, who didn’t lose his smile during Satur- days rout by the Army, told New York sports writers he was to blame for the 59 to 0 shellacking. He said. T knew we didn’t have much chance against that Army team and instructed the boys to play, gambling on desperate, danger ous football in the hope we might score enough to win. Instead, such things backfired and the Army total just grew and grew
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
- ARMY 59, NOTRE DAME 074,000 watch a battered Irish team try everything in the book—but West Point man-power, speed and deception give the Kaydets their first win over the Irish in 13 long years
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)
Notre Dame 55% to win. Army won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Notre Dame–Army gameNotre Dame leads 40–8–4 in 52 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.
| 2024 | Notre Dame 49, Army 14 | |
| 2016 | Notre Dame 44, Army 6 | |
| 2010 | Notre Dame 27, Army 3 | |
| 2006 | Notre Dame 41, Army 9 | |
| 1998 | Notre Dame 20, Army 17 | |
| 1995 | Notre Dame 28, Army 27 |
Around this game
Notre Dame
- Next gamevs. NorthwesternNov. 18, 1944
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1944
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records
Army
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaNov. 18, 1944
- SeasonArmy in 1944
- ProgramArmy history and records