Notre Dame at Iowa

Saturday, November 22, 1952

No. 9 Notre Dame beat Iowa 27–⁠0. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 6–⁠3–⁠2.

Away9Notre Dame7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1952
27
HomeIowa2–⁠7 in 1952
0

FinalHigh 50°F, low 28°FAttendance 46,600

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, November 28, 1952, page 54

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    SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 28.- Notre Danes fearless wreckine crew will try to slay Southern California’s defensive football giant tomorrow and end the season as the Nations No. / spoiler / Upset fever is climbing in this city just as it did three weeks age when the Fighting Irish toppleo Oklahoma, 27–⁠21, in a nationally televised game that still has the country talking. Tomorrow’s contest, starting al 2 pm. EST, will be viewed by a national TV audience following the Army–Navy game in Philadelphia that begins half an hour earlier. officials of the National Broadcasting CO. estimate that about 35 minutes of the game will be shown in the bobtailed double feature. Oklahoma was one of three conference champions that were blasted from the indicated ranks this season by the underdog Irish Texas and Purdue also fell as Notre Dame fashioned it’s current record of six victories, two losses Ito Michigan State and Pitts burgh) and one tie, with Penn, the Ivy League titlist. Other Notre Dame victims were North Carolima, Navy, and Iowa last week, 27–⁠0. Unbeaten Southern California, the Pacific Coast Conferences Rose Bowl hope against the Big Tens Wisconsin, has a nine-game winning string. The Trojans, ranked No. 2 nationally to No. Z for the Irish. haven’t lost since Notre Dame spilled them, 1912, in the 1851 finale at Los Angeles. BY defeating Notre Dame, the men of Troy can register their first unbeaten-untied season since 1882, when they shut out the Irish, 1870, in stride. They are a favorite to win tomorrow. The game is the oath in a bit

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 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 13–⁠8–⁠3 in 24 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.

Recent meetings
1968Notre Dame 51, Iowa 28
1967Notre Dame 56, Iowa 6
1964Notre Dame 28, Iowa 0
1962Notre Dame 35, Iowa 12
1961Iowa 42, Notre Dame 21
1960Iowa 28, Notre Dame 0

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