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A century ago this fall, the Irish made a trip East that was monumental at the time, to meet college football blueblood and defending national champion Princeton. The Tigers had played in the first game in the history of the sport in 1869 and had never strayed from the top echelon of the game in…
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In March of 1931, Knute Rockne was riding high. The 43-year-old product of Chicago’s Northwest Division High School and former mail clerk at the Chicago Post Office had become one of the most prominent Americans of his time. For 13 seasons, his University of Notre Dame football teams won with stunning regularity, earning three consensus…
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Coach Knute Rockne and his Notre Dame football squad came into the 1920 season on the heels of a perfect mark of 9-0-0 in 1919, with another challenging schedule lined up, and great hopes for continued success. The fall of 1919 had brought a return to normalcy on campus after two years disrupted by the…
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In March of 1931, the Notre Dame Athletic Board discussed the continuation of the series with the University of Southern California, which had now been played five times, including trips to California in 1926, 1928 and 1930. The series was immensely popular, with huge crowds at Chicago’s Soldier Field in 1927 and 1929. It was…
