North Carolina at Notre Dame

Saturday, September 30, 1950

No. 1 Notre Dame beat No. 20 North Carolina 14–⁠7. It was their second meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 2–⁠0 as played.

Away20North Carolina3–⁠5–⁠2 in 1950
7
Home1Notre Dame4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1950
14

FinalHigh 77°F, low 55°FAttendance 56,430

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 1, 1950, page 44

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    SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 80. “Just like I anticipated” Coach Frank Leahy of Notre Dame said of his football teams 14–⁠7 victory over North Carolina today. IT wasn’t fooling when I said before the game that it would go either way by one touch down. We don’t have the folks any more” II “It was a tough one to sit through” Leahy added as he sat in the Notre Dame dressing room, munching on an orange. 1.-The whole North Carolina team was outstanding” he continued. THAT Irv Holdash is a fine linebacker-a handy lad to have with you. So is Dick Bunting, good all around” Those two early fumbles hurt North Carolina. It was a harder game physically than our game last year and I’m glad we won it,” Coach Carl Snavel of North Carolina also seemed reason ably we’ll satisfied with the resuit. although he said he felt we were Q little disorganized

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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Notre Dame 74% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 22–⁠1; as played, 22–⁠2 in 24 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Notre Dame 37, North Carolina 26
2022Notre Dame 45, North Carolina 32
2021Notre Dame 44, North Carolina 34
2020Notre Dame 31, North Carolina 17
2017Notre Dame 33, North Carolina 10
2014Notre Dame 50, North Carolina 43

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