Tulane at Notre Dame
Saturday, October 15, 1949 Share
No. 1 Notre Dame beat No. 4 Tulane 46–7. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 5–0.
FinalHigh 60°F, low 46°FAttendance 58,196
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1949, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
Notre Dame, Army, Oklahoma Continue Unbeuten; Navy Loses Tulane fell far short of testing Notre Danes football juggernaut yesterday, bowling by a 46–7 mar gin at South Bend. While the Irish rolled out in front of the collegiate pigskin parade, Army and Oklahoma continued to dog their footsteps. The Cadets blasted Harvard, 54–14, and the Sooners defeated Kansas, 48 to Is. Wisconsin snapped Nays two game winning streak, 48–13. Minnesota seemed Rose Bowl bound after 27–0 victory over Ohio State. Once mighty Michigan dropped its second straight game as Northwestern triumphed 21–20. California u b d u e d Southern California, 1910, making the Gold en- Bears favorites to be the West Coasts Rose Bowl representative,
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 TULANEThe Fighting Irish again prove to be one of the most destructive forces ever loosed on a football field, striking hard and often to turn back Tulane, 46-7, in a tornado of destruction
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 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Tulane–Notre Dame gameNotre Dame leads 8–0 in eight meetings, counting the three since this game.
| 1971 | Notre Dame 21, Tulane 7 | |
| 1969 | Notre Dame 37, Tulane 0 | |
| 1950 | Notre Dame 13, Tulane 9 | |
| 1949 | Notre Dame 46, Tulane 7 | |
| 1947 | Notre Dame 59, Tulane 6 | |
| 1946 | Notre Dame 41, Tulane 0 |
Around this game
Tulane
- Next gamevs. AuburnOct. 22, 1949
- SeasonTulane in 1949
- ProgramTulane history and records
Notre Dame
- Next gameat NavyOct. 29, 1949
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1949
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records

