Notre Dame at Tulane

Saturday, November 23, 1946

No. 2 Notre Dame beat Tulane 41–⁠0. It was their third meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 3–⁠0.

Away2Notre Dame8–⁠0–⁠1 in 1946
41
HomeTulane3–⁠7 in 1946
0

FinalHigh 65°F, low 47°FAttendance 65,841

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Army, Irish, Georgia, U. c. |. A. Will Risk .Unbeaten Records

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 25, 1946, page 19 (results column)

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    Army, Irish, Georgia, U. c. |. A. Will Risk .Unbeaten Records NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-With the Rose Bowl filled and several major conference races settled, the college football teams which haven’t quite had enough will pick up the loose ends Of the 1916 season this week as promoters select the opponents for other postseason games. The final week of the campaign will divide its grid fare between Thanksgiving Day and Saturday with the big four-Army, Notre Dame, Georgia and U. G. L. A.. risking their unbeaten records on the week lend date. Army, shooting for its third straight season without defeat, plays Navy at Philadelphia. The Cadets will be top-heavy favorites to crusit a Navy team that hasn’t won game since its opener, but this fact isn’t expected to keep many customers away. Both teams rested, as usual, on the week end before the service classic. - Ga. Meets Ga. Tech. Georgia, which breezed past Chat tanooga, 1927, to run its perfect record to nine wins, will be invaded by Georgia Tech, team that trampled Furman. All, for its eighth triumph since dropping its opener to Tennessee. The winner probably will go to the Sugar Bowl and Georgia can clinch tie for the Southeastern Conference championship. Tennessee, which squeaked past Kentucky, TO, to match Georgia’s conference record of four wins and no losses. will be at Vanderbilt. A Tennessee loss and Georgia triumph would give the Bulldogs the title, while both would share the championship by winning. Ten nessee already has accepted a bid to the Orange Bowl, with an OPP ponent expected to come from the Southwest Conference. u. G. L. A., which won the Pa cific Coast Conference title and the right to be host team in the Rose Bowl by turning back Southern California, 1876, winds up its regular season against invading Mebraska with hopes of finishing with a perfect record of 10 triumphs. U. S. C. Opposes Irish. Southern Cal. meanwhile, will In wade Notre Dame, whose unbeaten but once-tied eleven swamped Tulane, 41–⁠0 1t was all over but the shouting In the Big Nine. where Illinois won the title and qualified to represent the East In the Rose Bowl by whip ping Northwestern, 400. Other Big Nine finales last week saw Michigan slaughter Ohio State. 58–⁠6, In lost cause, Indiana dec feat Purdue. 1870. and Minnesota clip Wisconsin. 60. z North Carolina. winner of the Southern Conference title with O. 22–⁠7 triumph over Duke, closes QUE its season at Virginia Saturday and | other teams in that loop argue over second place on Thursday. / Saturdays schedule In the South. eastern Conference in addition to the Georgia Tech Georgia and Ten EneSsee- Vanderbilt affairs viii find il Mississippi State, 200 winner over Mississippi, at Alabama, which dropped a 1877 decision to Boston Coll i Iege; Auburn, 21–⁠13 victim of Clemsoh, at Florida, 37–⁠6 loser to North Carolina State; and Tulane at Louisiana State. e | Rice, stiI trying to share the Southwest Conference title with Arkansas after trouncing Texas Christian, 1870, entertains Baylor Saturday, with Texas Christian playing at Southern Methodist. which blanked Baylor, $50. Oklahoma Plays Aggies. Oklahoma, assured of no worse than a tie for Big Six honors after beating Nebraska, ATS, winds up at | Oklahoma A. and M : | Other major games Saturday will find Holy Gross at Boston College, Washington at Oregon State, Wash ington State at Michigan State, Kansas State at Arizona and Tenn pie at Wichita. / Thursdays top game in the East J will send Cornell to Pennsylvania with the Ivy League title depending on the outcome. Cornell can win (see ARMY-IRIsH. Page A-200 !, .saas>s>.~uc,6S-S.,:..

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.

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Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Notre Dame 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 8–⁠0 in eight meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
1971Notre Dame 21, Tulane 7
1969Notre Dame 37, Tulane 0
1950Notre Dame 13, Tulane 9
1949Notre Dame 46, Tulane 7
1947Notre Dame 59, Tulane 6
1946Notre Dame 41, Tulane 0

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