Notre Dame at Indiana

Saturday, October 25, 1902

Notre Dame beat Indiana 11–⁠5. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 3–⁠1.

AwayNotre Dame6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1902
11
HomeIndiana3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1902
5

FinalHigh 78°F, low 59°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Indianapolis journal's story: CLOSE RACE FOR VICTORY NoTRE DAME DEFEATS INDIANA BIZ THE SCORE OF IL To 5. Purdue Barely Defeats Case Science schooI-wabash Beats Rose Poly Cuiver-Chicago and other Games. Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.

    The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], October 26, 1902, page 1

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    CLOSE RACE FOR VICTORY NoTRE DAME DEFEATS INDIANA BIZ THE SCORE OF IL To 5. Purdue Barely Defeats Case Science schooI-wabash Beats Rose Poly Cuiver-Chicago and other Games. Special TO the Indianapolis Journal. Special % the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON. Ind, Oct 25.-Notre Dame defeated Indiana here to-day on Jordan Field in the closest game OF the season by the score OF IL TO 5. This makes the first time that Indiana ever lost a game on Jordan Field, but IL ran the visitors a close race for victory. The teams were wei matched, but Indiana opened up with swift end gains. which IL was unable &c duplicate in the second half. Salmon played the game for Notre Dame by his swift. long dashes across the field. but Clevenger put In a few OF the same sort for Indiana, and knight and Markle also did splendid work. The game opened with Indiana’s kick of and Notre Dame returned the ball past the center of field. Notre Dame walked down the field at three TO five yards at a clip, and at end of eight minutes Salmon had a touchdown and kicked goal In the second session Indian rapidly advanced ball to Notre DANES goal and by a series OF downs and punts Knight carried the ball over for Indiana but goal was missed. The first half closed: Notre Dame. s; Indiana, 8: Indiana failed 10 get into the second nalL with the vim displayed in the first part or the game. NOtre Dame had a touchdown In the first period. but on the kick for goal the bail struck the goal post and failed A strenuous effort was made by Indiana 10 score In the second period. rev or the star men were disabled and it drew heavily on the substitutes. Clevenger kicked on TO Notre Dame and Salmon received and returned the ball twenty yards. Clevenger made a twenty-five-yard dash through Notre Dame s right end and after series OF downs and punts time was called, when Indiana was on the visitors thirty-yard line with the ball. The final score was: Notre Dame, II; Indiana, 5. Lineup:

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

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Our ratings (scores only)

Indiana 52% to win. Notre Dame won as Elo’s underdog.

Notre Dame leads 24–⁠4–⁠1 in 29 meetings, counting the 25 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Notre Dame 27, Indiana 17CFP First Round
1991Notre Dame 49, Indiana 27
1958Notre Dame 18, Indiana 0
1957Notre Dame 26, Indiana 0
1956Notre Dame 20, Indiana 6
1955Notre Dame 19, Indiana 0

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