1919 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

1919 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
Conference	Independent
1919 record	9–0
Head coach	Knute Rockne (2nd year)
Assistant coach	Gus Dorais
Offensive scheme	Notre Dame Box
Base defense	7–2–2
Captain	Leonard Bahan
Home stadium	Cartier Field
Uniform

The 1919 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1919 college football season. The team was recognized retroactively as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 4	Kalamazoo	Cartier Field • South Bend, IN	W 14–0	5,000
October 11	at Mount Union	Cartier Field • South Bend, IN	W 60–7	4,000
October 18	at Nebraska	Nebraska Field • Lincoln, NE	W 14–9	10,000
October 25	Western State	Cartier Field • South Bend, IN	W 53–0	2,500
November 1	vs. Indiana	Washington Park • Indianapolis, IN	W 16–3	5,000
November 8	at Army	The Plain • West Point, NY (Rivalry)	W 12–9	8,000
November 15	at Michigan Agricultural	Cartier Field • South Bend, IN (Rivalry)	W 13–0	5,000
November 22	at Purdue	Stuart Field • West Lafayette, IN (Rivalry)	W 33–13	7,000
November 27	at Morningside	Sioux City, IA •	W 14–6	10,000

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References

↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/notre-dame/1919-schedule.html

External links

1919 Notre Dame Football Review

1919 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football—national champions

21 Heartley Anderson 66 George Gipp Eddie Anderson Leonard Bahan Norman Barry Dutch Bergman Joe Brandy Frank Coughlin Roger Kiley Bernard Kirk Slip Madigan Grover Malone Harry Mehre John Mohardt Buck Shaw Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith Fritz Slackford George Trafton Earl Walsh Chet A. Wynne Head coach: Knute Rockne Assistant coach: Gus Dorais *selected national champion by NCF

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

Venues	Cartier Field (1889–1928) Soldier Field (1929) Notre Dame Stadium (1930–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Emerald Isle Classic Army Boston College: Holy War Michigan Michigan State Navy Northwestern Pittsburgh Purdue Stanford USC

Culture & lore	All-time series results History Band of the Fighting Irish Irish Guard Notre Dame Box Notre Dame Leprechaun "Notre Dame, Our Mother" "Notre Dame Victory March" Play Like a Champion Today Subway Alumni T formation Tall Grass Game 1946 "Game of the Century" 1966 "Game of the Century" Catholics vs. Convicts 1993 "Game of the Century" Bush Push Navy ends the drought Knute Rockne, All American Notre Dame Football on NBC Rudy

People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks Four Horsemen NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)

1869–1879	1869: Princeton / Rutgers 1870: Princeton 1872: Princeton / Yale 1873: Princeton 1874: Harvard / Princeton / Yale 1875: Columbia / Harvard / Princeton 1876: Yale 1877: Princeton / Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton

1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Princeton / Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Princeton / Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Princeton / Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton

1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton / Yale 1894: Penn / Princeton / Yale 1895: Penn / Yale 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn / Yale 1898: Harvard / Princeton 1899: Harvard / Princeton

1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Harvard / Michigan / Yale 1902: Michigan / Yale 1903: Michigan / Princeton 1904: Michigan / Minnesota / Penn 1905: Chicago / Yale 1906: Princeton / Yale 1907: Yale 1908: Harvard / LSU / Penn 1909: Yale

1910s	1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh 1911: Penn State / Princeton 1912: Harvard / Penn State 1913: Auburn / Chicago / Harvard 1914: Army / Illinois / Texas 1915: Cornell / Minnesota / Oklahoma / Pittsburgh 1916: Army / Georgia Tech / Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Centre / Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M

1920s	1920: California / Georgia / Harvard / Notre Dame / Princeton 1921: California / Cornell / Iowa / Lafayette / Washington & Jefferson / Vanderbilt 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton / Vanderbilt 1923: Cal / Cornell / Illinois / Michigan / Yale 1924: Notre Dame / Penn 1925: Alabama / Dartmouth / Michigan 1926: Alabama / Lafayette / Michigan / Navy / Stanford 1927: Georgia / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M / Yale 1928: Detroit / Georgia Tech / USC 1929: Notre Dame / Pittsburgh / USC

1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: Pittsburgh / Purdue / USC 1932: Colgate / Michigan / USC 1933: Michigan / Ohio State / Princeton / USC 1934: Alabama / Minnesota 1935: LSU / Minnesota / Princeton / SMU / TCU

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