Kalamazoo vs. Notre Dame

Kalamazoo and Notre Dame first met in 1917 and have played 6 times; Notre Dame leads the series 6–⁠0. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Notre Dame 6–⁠0, and Notre Dame has won the last 6.

Kalamazoo wins
0
Notre Dame wins
6
Ties
0
First meeting
1917
Longest streak
6 Notre Dame
Current streak
6 Notre Dame
Last 10 meetings
Notre Dame 6–⁠0
Most recent
1923

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠2
1920s0–⁠4
Average margin
47.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Notre Dame
6–⁠0 Notre Dame’s record at home
Shutouts
6

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Notre Dame’s biggest win1923: Notre Dame 74, Kalamazoo 0by 74 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kalamazoo and Notre Dame, 1917 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 Great Falls tribune. (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current's story of the 1921 game: NOTRE DAME USES THREE TEAM TO BEAT KALAMAZOO

    1921 · Great Falls tribune. (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, Montana, Sep 25, 1921

  • The South Bend news-times's story of the 1922 game: Gold and Blue EIeuen Shows Speed Against Light KazooS Cashiers Long Runs for TOuchdOwns Feature Game-New Irish Backs Display Class-Rockne Uses Entire Squad During Came-Only One Pass by ~ d.

    1922 · South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., Oct 1, 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

Sep 29, 1923Notre Dame 74, Kalamazoo 0at Notre Dame
Sep 30, 1922Notre Dame 46, Kalamazoo 0at Notre Dame
Sep 24, 1921Notre Dame 56, Kalamazoo 0at Notre Dame
Oct 2, 1920Notre Dame 39, Kalamazoo 0at Notre Dame
Oct 4, 1919Notre Dame 14, Kalamazoo 0at Notre Dame
Oct 6, 1917Notre Dame 55, Kalamazoo 0at Notre Dame

Every game is listed as played on the field.