1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

National champion (Billingsley) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1920 record	9–0
Head coach	Knute Rockne (3rd season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Base defense	7–2–2
Captain	Frank Coughlin
Home stadium	Cartier Field
Uniform

Seasons ← 1919 1921 →

1920 Midwestern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Notre Dame		–		9	–	0	–	0
Butler		–		7	–	1	–	0
St. Xavier		–		7	–	1	–	0
Detroit		–		8	–	2	–	0
Marquette		–		7	–	2	–	0
Haskell		–		7	–	2	–	1
St. Ignatius (OH)		–		4	–	2	–	0
Iowa State Teachers		–		4	–	2	–	1
Valparaiso		–		5	–	3	–	0
Nebraska		–		5	–	3	–	1
Central Michigan		–		4	–	3	–	1
Akron		–		4	–	4	–	0
Wabash		–		3	–	4	–	0
Western State Normal (MI)		–		3	–	4	–	0
North Dakota Agricultural		–		2	–	3	–	1
Michigan Agricultural		–		4	–	6	–	0
Earlham		–		2	–	3	–	0
Northern Illinois State		–		3	–	5	–	0
Dayton		–		2	–	4	–	0
Kent State		–		1	–	2	–	0
Saint Louis		–		3	–	6	–	0
Bowling Green		–		1	–	4	–	0
Toledo		–		0	–	3	–	0

The 1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1920 college football season,^[1] led by third-year head coach Knute Rockne. The team won all nine games and was selected retroactively as national champion by the Billingsley Report and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[2]

Senior back George Gipp was a consensus All-American, but died on December 14 due to a streptococcal throat infection and pneumonia.^[3]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Kalamazoo	Cartier Field South Bend, IN	W 39–0	5,000
October 9	Western State Normal	Cartier Field South Bend, IN	W 42–0	3,500
October 16	at Nebraska	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE	W 16–7	9,000
October 23	Valparaiso	Cartier Field South Bend, IN	W 28–3	8,000
October 30	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY (rivalry)	W 27–17	10,000
November 6	Purdue	Cartier Field South Bend, IN (rivalry)	W 28–0	12,000
November 13	vs. Indiana	Washington Park^[4] Indianapolis, IN	W 13–10	14,000
November 20	at Northwestern	Northwestern Field Evanston, IL (rivalry)	W 33–7	20,000
November 25	at Michigan Agricultural	Old College Field East Lansing, MI (rivalry)	W 25–0	8,000	^[5]

^[6]

References[]

^ http://www.archives.nd.edu/Football/Football-1920.pdf
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
^ "Gipp will be buried Thursday". Milwaukee Sentinel. December 15, 1920. p. 10.
^ "Notre Dame Favorite as Big Teams Line Up". Indianapolis News. Nov 13, 1920. p. 10. Retrieved Nov 14, 2020 – via Hoosier State Chronicles. {{cite news}}: External link in |via= (help)
^ "Notre Dame Triumphs Over Aggies in Stubborn Fight". The Lansing State Journal. November 26, 1920. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.

v t 1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football—national champions
21 Hunk Anderson 66 George Gipp Eddie Anderson Norman Barry Joe Brandy Fod Cotton Frank Coughlin Chet Grant Cy Kasper Roger Kiley Harry Mehre John Mohardt Eugene Oberst Bob Phelan Buck Shaw Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith Earl Walsh Chet A. Wynne Head coach: Knute Rockne

v t Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
Venues	Brownson Hall field (1892?–1899) Cartier Field (1899–1928) 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	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 30 for 30 film 1993 "Game of the Century" Bush Push Navy ends the drought 2020 ACC Championship Game The Spirit of Notre Dame Knute Rockne, All American Notre Dame Football on NBC Rudy
People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks Four Horsemen NFL draftees Statistical leaders Team captains
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 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
National championship seasons in bold

v t College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)
1869–1879	1869: Princeton / Rutgers 1870: Princeton 1871: None 1872: Princeton 1873: Princeton 1874: Yale 1875: Harvard 1876: Yale 1877: Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton
1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton
1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton 1894: Yale 1895: Penn 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn 1898: Harvard 1899: Harvard
1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Michigan 1902: Michigan 1903: Michigan / Princeton 1904: Michigan / Penn 1905: Chicago 1906: Princeton 1907: Yale 1908: LSU / Penn 1909: Yale
1910s	1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh 1911: Penn State / Princeton 1912: Harvard / Penn State 1913: Harvard 1914: Army 1915: Cornell 1916: Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M
1920s	1920: California 1921: California / Cornell 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton 1923: Illinois / Michigan 1924: Notre Dame 1925: Alabama 1926: Alabama / Stanford 1927: Illinois / Yale 1928: Georgia Tech 1929: Notre Dame
1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: USC 1932: USC 1933: Michigan 1934: Minnesota 1935: Minnesota

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