DePauw vs. Notre Dame

DePauw and Notre Dame first met in 1902 and have played 5 times; Notre Dame leads the series 5–⁠0. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Notre Dame 5–⁠0, and Notre Dame has won the last 5.

DePauw wins
0
Notre Dame wins
5
Ties
0
First meeting
1902
Longest streak
5 Notre Dame
Current streak
5 Notre Dame
Last 10 meetings
Notre Dame 5–⁠0
Most recent
1922

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠3
1920s0–⁠2
Average margin
35.4 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Notre Dame
5–⁠0 Notre Dame’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Notre Dame’s biggest win1905: Notre Dame 71, DePauw 0by 71 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of DePauw and Notre Dame, 1902 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 Akron daily Democrat's story of the 1902 game: VICTORY

    1902 · Akron daily Democrat, Akron, Ohio, Nov 24, 1902

  • The Evening star's story of the 1922 game: GAME TO N0TRE DAME.

    1922 · Evening star, Oct 22, 1922

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

Oct 21, 1922Notre Dame 34, DePauw 7at Notre Dame
Oct 1, 1921Notre Dame 57, DePauw 10at Notre Dame
Nov 4, 1905Notre Dame 71, DePauw 0at Notre Dame
Nov 19, 1904Notre Dame 10, DePauw 0at Notre Dame
Nov 22, 1902Notre Dame 22, DePauw 0at Notre Dame

Every game is listed as played on the field.