Notre Dame at Navy
Saturday, November 3, 1951 Share
No. 13 Notre Dame beat Navy 19–0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 20–4–1 as played.
FinalHigh 44°F, low 24°F, 0.5 in. of rainAttendance 44,237
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 4, 1951, page 50
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Notre Dame Beats Navy, 1910, Before 44 ,237 in Baltimore BALTIMORE, Nov. 3. - This annual football series between Notre Dame and Navy, now Is years old. is becoming habit form ing for both parties. At any rate. Notre Dame beat the Midshipmen again today, 19 to 0, for the Goth Irish victory against only four losses and a tie. For Navy it was another of those dreary afternoons when nothing seemed to go well. Even in the waning seconds, with the Mid shipmen doomed to their fifth straight licking after opening with a TT tie with Yale, they were denied the consolation of scoring. Navy had a first down on the one-foot line and still couldn’t t put the ball across as the brigade of Midshipmen, $500 strong, moaned from their frozen perches in Baltimore Municipal Stadium. They had conceded Notre Dame the victory-the fifth for the Irish this season against a lone defeat by Southern Methodist but there seemed reasonable hope |of getting on the scoreboard until the Notre Dame line hurled back two running plays and the clock ran out. A sellout crowd of A ,237 spectators, shivering in the 35-degree weather, saw a contest in which
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 68% 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 73 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. 10, 1951
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1951
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records
Navy
- Next gamevs. MarylandNov. 10, 1951
- SeasonNavy in 1951
- ProgramNavy history and records

