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 year)
Offensive scheme	Notre Dame Box
Base defense	7–2–2
Captain	Frank Coughlin
Home stadium	Cartier Field

The 1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1920 college football season.^[1] The team was selected retroactively as the 1920 national champion by the Billingsley Report and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 2	Kalamazoo	Cartier Field • South Bend, IN	W 39–0	5,000
October 9	Western State	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	W 28–0	12,000
November 13	vs. Indiana	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	East Lansing, MI (Rivalry)	W 25–0	8,000

^[3]^[4]

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.
↑ "1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.
↑ "Notre Dame Football :: UND.COM :: The Official Site of Notre Dame Athletics". und.com.

1920 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football—national champions

Eddie Anderson Heartley Anderson Norman Barry Frank Coughlin George Gipp Chet Grant Roger Kiley Harry Mehre John Mohardt Gene Oberst Buck Shaw Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith Earl Walsh Chet A. Wynne Head coach: Knute Rockne

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

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

Bowls and rivalries	Bowl games Emerald Isle Classic Army Boston College: Holy War (Frank Leahy Memorial Bowl; Ireland Trophy) Michigan Michigan State (Megaphone Trophy) Navy (Rip Miller Trophy) Northwestern (Shillelagh Trophy 1930–c. 1973) Purdue (Shillelagh Trophy) Stanford (Legends Trophy) USC (Jeweled Shillelagh)

Culture and 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

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

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