Notre Dame at Navy
Saturday, October 29, 1949 Share
No. 1 Notre Dame beat Navy 40–0. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 18–4–1 as played.
FinalHigh 61°F, low 47°F, 0.1 in. of rainAttendance 62,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 30, 1949, page 1
Read the text
Notre Dame Victory Over Navy Sets Record; MARYLAND Wins The football season passed the halfway mark yesterday with a number of spectacular games and some surprising results. A capacity throng at Baltimore saw Notre Dame set a new COL legiate record of 80 straight games without defeat. In establishing the new record, the Irish over whelmed a courageous Navy team, 40 to 0. In another area contest, Mary land University climaxed it’s home coming festivities with a 44–0 vic tory over South Carolina. Georgetown ran into its second defeat of the season when Ford ham overpowered the Hoyas by the surpr sing score of ~ to 0 in New York. Probably the most spectacular game was Pittsburgh’s % to 81 victory over Pennsylvania. Trail kg by one point, Pitt blocked Z
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
- FOOTBALL!—NOTRE DAME "SINKS" NAVYThe Fighting Irish put on another demonstration of their speed and power by inflicting a humiliating 40-0 defeat upon the Midshipmen before a full house at Babe Ruth Stadium
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 83% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Notre Dame–Navy gameOfficially, Notre Dame leads 82–13–1; as played, 84–13–1 in 98 meetings, counting the 75 since this game.
| 2025 | Notre Dame 49, Navy 10 | |
| 2024 | Notre Dame 51, Navy 14 | |
| 2023 | Notre Dame 42, Navy 3 | |
| 2022 | Notre Dame 35, Navy 32 | |
| 2021 | Notre Dame 34, Navy 6 | |
| 2019 | Notre Dame 52, Navy 20 |
Around this game
Notre Dame
- Next gameat Michigan StateNov. 5, 1949
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1949
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records
Navy
- Next gameat TulaneNov. 5, 1949
- SeasonNavy in 1949
- ProgramNavy history and records