Notre Dame at Northwestern

Saturday, October 22, 1960

Northwestern beat Notre Dame 7–⁠6. It was their 29th meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 22–⁠5–⁠2.

AwayNotre Dame2–⁠8 in 1960
6
HomeNorthwestern5–⁠4 in 1960
7

FinalHigh 69°F, low 43°FAttendance 55,682

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: No De-emphosis Planned For Irish, Krouse Says

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1960, page 19

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    No De-emphosis Planned For Irish, Krouse Says by Purdue and Is lost for the year after q knee operation. Joe has three Sophomores and two juniors at quarterback, and only George Haffner had any previous varsity playing time (71a minutes),” he said. “And don’t forget, we lost George 1zo and Don White, both pretty fair boys” Krause said the team has not been able to replace Ends Monte Stickles, Jim Colosimo and Pat Heenan. “Other clubs know this and they’ve been giving US q lot Of trouble at the position” he pointed out. Four Fullbacks Hurt The loss of Fullback Gerry Gray, leading ground gamer in 1859, and three other fullbacks by injuries has left only Joe Perkowski. land he’s not 90 ing full steam because Of in juries.” Mack’s loss was one that we had not anticipated at all” Krause said. “He had q knee operation in the spring and seemed to be coming along. all right when he went and got the good one hurt against Purdue. He was one Of the finest players we’ve had for quite a while” Abiding to last Saturdays 7–⁠6 loss to Northwestern, Krause said Kuharich elected to 60 for q single point after touchdown because he felt there was enough time (about 10 minutes) for US to 60 In for another score after the tie” What would he have done III he was the coach. Krause was asked. Like any Notre Dame alum nus I like to win and would have gone for the two-point conversion” he said. II didn’t think at the time we would be able to score again.”

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)

Northwestern 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Notre Dame leads 37–⁠9–⁠2 in 48 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.

Recent meetings
2018Notre Dame 31, Northwestern 21
2014Northwestern 43, Notre Dame 40
1995Northwestern 17, Notre Dame 15
1994Notre Dame 42, Northwestern 15
1993Notre Dame 27, Northwestern 12
1992Notre Dame 42, Northwestern 7

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