Navy at Notre Dame
Saturday, October 31, 1953 Share
No. 1 Notre Dame beat No. 20 Navy 38–7. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 22–4–1 as played.
FinalHigh 70°F, low 45°FAttendance 58,154
In the newspapers
Evening star, November 3, 1953, page 21
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90 Pick Notre Dame; Duke Climbs Back In Select Bracket NEW YORK. Nov. 3.-Notre Dame drew 80 Of 1874 first-place votes today and continued to solidify its position as the country’s No. l college football team. The Irish, who crushed Navy, 38–7. for their fifth straight vic tory. amassed the seasons high total Of 1,243 points in the As sociated Press poll and moved 1856 points ahead Of second-place Maryland, also unbeaten and united. Maryland, however, got 81 f1rst-place votes, three more than a week ago. Completing the top 10 are: 8. Baylor: 4. Illinois; S. Michigan State; s. Georgia Tech; 7. West
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 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Navy–Notre Dame gameOfficially, Notre Dame leads 82–13–1; as played, 84–13–1 in 98 meetings, counting the 71 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 |
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