South Dakota at Notre Dame

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  South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., October 28, 1917, page 1

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  N. D.-Dakota Game Plays Brandy made first down. Brandy went through for five more yards. Brandy clutched the ball as he wiggled through the line for a touchdown. Rydzewski kicked goal. Score, p to 0. Third Quarter. Notre Dame kicked off. South Dakota tried forward pass but it fell incomplete. Dixon went in for Big Frank” The big center left the game with a badly disfgured face. South Dakota punted weakly. Notre Dame penalized five yards for off sire play Ryan intercepted South Dakota forward pass and ran 80 yards before being downed on six yard line. Ryan went over for a touchdown. Allison kicked the goal. Score, 50 TO 0. Smith returned kick off to middle OF the field Barry made five yards through the line. Allisons punt was short. South Dakota executed specta cular forward pass as quarter ended. IL was good for % yards. Score. “a to o. Fourth Quarter. Harper sent in a flock of sub stitutes Smith recovered Il South Dakota tumble. South Dakota pen allied five yards for being offside. Ryan went through the line for eight yards. Notre Dame gained three first downs by straight line buCking. Ryan smashed through for a touchdown from the seven yard line. The goal was missed. Score. 40 to 0.

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  Arizona republican, Arizona, October 28, 1917, page 9

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  Notre Dame Wins Easily SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 27.-Notre Dame defeated South Dakota, 40 to 0. The Notre Dame line held at all times while the pony backs crashed through the Dakotans for good gains. The Notre Dame quarterback opened two aerial plays, each of which netted a touchdown. During the remainder of the game Notre Dame resorted to straight football.

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  The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., October 29, 1917, page 8 (results column)

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  Pos. East ch.eago. Football Saturday COLLEGE. Chicago. Z; Northwestern, o. Illinois. %; Purdue, 0. Ohio State, 81; Denison. O. wisconsin. 20: Iowa. 0. Michigan. 20; Nebraska. o Notre Dame. 40: South Dakota. 0. De PAW. IA; St. Louis university, o. Wabash. 10; Pennsylvania, 0. Rose Poly, 6; Washington university.

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.

Notre Dame leads 5–⁠0 in five meetings.