Tulane at Notre Dame

Saturday, October 15, 1949

No. 1 Notre Dame beat No. 4 Tulane 46–⁠7. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 5–⁠0.

Away4Tulane7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1949
7
Home1Notre Dame10–⁠0 in 1949
46

FinalHigh 60°F, low 46°FAttendance 58,196

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Notre Dame, Army, Oklahoma Continue Unbeuten; Navy Loses

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1949, page 1 (results column)

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    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 destructionUniversal Newsreel, October 17, 1949. Catalog record at the National Archives

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.

Notre Dame leads 8–⁠0 in eight meetings, counting the three 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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