Pittsburgh at Notre Dame
Saturday, October 5, 1946 Share
Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 33–0. It was their 15th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 9–5–1 as played.
FinalAttendance 50,368
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 7, 1946, page 3 (results column)
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FOOTBALL d SCORES Scores of. leading football games played last Saturday afternoon are as follows; UCLA 39; Washington 13. Oregon IA; California l3. Washington State 32, Idaho 0. Ohio State 21; use O. Stanford 33; San Francisco ‘. Oregon State 35; Portland 0. Nevada 33; Santa Clara ‘. Calf. Poly 2l; San Diego State l3. Willamette 26; Brit. Columbia 13. Cen. Washington 2l; Whitworth 2 Columbia 23; Navy IA. Dartmouth 20; Syracuse IA Pennsylvania 66; Lafayette 0. Army 46; Cornell 21. Yale 27; Colgate 6. Princeton 33; Brown 12. Harvard 49; Tufts 0. Holy Cross l6; Detroit IA. Penn State AS; Bucknell 6. Boston College 34; Michigan s 20. Indiana 21 Minnesota 10. Northwestern 28; Wisconsin 0. Notre Dame 33 Pittsburgh 0. Nebraska 31; Kansas State 0. Kansas IA; Wichita T. Illinois 43; Purdue ‘.
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 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Pittsburgh–Notre Dame gameOfficially, Notre Dame leads 51–21–1; as played, 52–21–1 in 74 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.
Around this game
Pittsburgh
- Next gamevs. TempleOct. 12, 1946
- SeasonPittsburgh in 1946
- ProgramPittsburgh history and records
Notre Dame
- Next gamevs. PurdueOct. 12, 1946
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1946
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records

