Notre Dame at Navy
Saturday, October 30, 1954 Share
No. 6 Notre Dame beat No. 15 Navy 6–0. It was their 28th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 23–4–1 as played.
FinalHigh 55°F, low 34°FAttendance 60,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, District of Columbia, October 31, 1954, page 62
Read the text
NOTRE DAME 6 NAVY ------ o naI-Period Scores Give Oklahoma 1876 Win Over Colorado BOULDER, Colo, Oct. 30 Trailing for two quarters, Oklahoma’s Sooners struck for two touchdownS behind savage line play today to win their 18th straight victory by jarring Col orado. 1876. Halfback Buddy Leake ran II yards for Oklahoma’s tying
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
- NOTRE DAME vs NAVYA rain-soaked gridiron and determined, opposition makes it a thriller right down to the closing minutes, as a fumble on the one-yard line ends Navy's drive to score and tie. The Irish win, 6-0
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)
Navy 52% to win. Notre Dame won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Notre Dame–Navy gameOfficially, Notre Dame leads 82–13–1; as played, 84–13–1 in 98 meetings, counting the 70 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 PennsylvaniaNov. 6, 1954
- SeasonNotre Dame in 1954
- ProgramNotre Dame history and records
Navy
- Next gamevs. DukeNov. 6, 1954
- SeasonNavy in 1954
- ProgramNavy history and records