Alma vs. Notre Dame

Alma and Notre Dame have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1913; Notre Dame leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Notre Dame 4–⁠0, and Notre Dame has won the last 4.

Alma wins
0
Notre Dame wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1913
Longest streak
4 Notre Dame
Current streak
4 Notre Dame
Last 10 meetings
Notre Dame 4–⁠0
Most recent
1916

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠4
Average margin
49 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Notre Dame
4–⁠0 Notre Dame’s record at home
Shutouts
4

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Alma and Notre Dame, 1913 on1300150017001915192019251930193519401945

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1914 game: Notre Dame Easily Beats Alma.

    1914 · Evening star, Oct 4, 1914

  • The Alma record's story of the 1915 game: NOTRE DAME BEATS COLLEGE Alma College Makes Good Showing In First Game of Football Season

    1915 · Alma record, Alma, Mich., Oct 7, 1915

  • The Ottumwa semi-weekly courier's story of the 1916 game: Football Results Saturday Minnesota 40: Chicago 0. Syracuse 20: Tufts Is.

    1916 · Ottumwa semi-weekly courier, Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov 28, 1916

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Nov 25, 1916Notre Dame 46, Alma 0at Notre Dame
Oct 2, 1915Notre Dame 32, Alma 0at Notre Dame
Oct 3, 1914Notre Dame 56, Alma 0at Notre Dame
Oct 25, 1913Notre Dame 62, Alma 0at Notre Dame

Every game is listed as played on the field.