Notre Dame at USC
Saturday, December 6, 1947 Share
No. 1 Notre Dame beat No. 3 USC 38–7. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 12–6–1 as played.
FinalHigh 57°F, low 45°F, 0.02 in. of rainAttendance 104,953
In the newspapers
Evening star, December 7, 1947, page 50
Read the text
Notre Danes Secondaf Power Bures Southern Ca 38–7 104, ,953 Watch Irish Pile Up 28 Points After |ntermission Sitko’s 76-Yord Run and Livingstone’s 92-Yord Sprint Help Wreck Trojons; Margin Largest in Series History LOS ANGELES, Dec. e-The mighty Irish of Notre Dame subdud then thashed Southern California today winding perfect 1s47 grid campaign and stalking ing claim the top college football team In nation Amazing packed crowd of 104953 college this the Irish early 1opoin In the second quarter Notre Dame yielded touchdown surprisingly stubborn Trojans then game up points the last half after leading, 10–7, at the intermission. Emil stko squatty 175pound halfback Fort Wayne nd broke the Trojan back with 76yard touchdown his running mate Bob Livingstone Hammond Ind really dashed the Troys’ hopes with 92yard sprint. Lujack Master at Running Team. Running the team with the mastery status Quarterback Johnny Luack and knocking outmanned Trojan line Leahys beefer Registering their ninth straight victory of the year and running their unbeaten streakdang victories hit the scoreboard with five touchdowns and field goal
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
- NOTRE DAME ROUTS U.S.CTouchdown romps of 92 and 76 yards feature Notre Dame's spectacular 38-7 trouncing of Southern California. Huge crowd of 105,000 sees the defeat which gives the Irish their first perfect season in 17 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 52% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Notre Dame–USC gameOfficially, Notre Dame leads 51–37–5; as played, 53–38–5 in 96 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.
| 2025 | Notre Dame 34, USC 24 | |
| 2024 | Notre Dame 49, USC 35 | |
| 2023 | Notre Dame 48, USC 20 | |
| 2022 | USC 38, Notre Dame 27 | |
| 2021 | Notre Dame 31, USC 16 | |
| 2019 | Notre Dame 30, USC 27 |
Around this game
Notre Dame
- Next gamevs. PurdueSept. 25, 1948
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1947
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records
USC
- Next gamevs. MichiganJan. 1, 1948, Rose Bowl
- SeasonUSC in 1947
- ProgramUSC history and records