Army–Notre Dame football rivalry

Program for the 1928 Army v Notre Dame game at Yankee Stadium

The first Army–Notre Dame game in 1913 is generally regarded as the game that established the national reputation of the Fighting Irish.[2] In that game, Notre Dame revolutionized the forward pass in a stunning 35–13 victory.[2] For years it was "The Game" on Notre Dame's schedule, played at Yankee Stadium in New York.[2] During the 1940s, the rivalry with the Army Cadets reached its zenith. This was because both teams were extremely successful and met several times in key games (including one of the Games of the Century, a scoreless tie in 1946). In 1944, the Cadets administered the worst defeat in Notre Dame football history, crushing the Fighting Irish 59–0. The following year, it was more of the same, a 48–0 blitzkrieg. After meeting every year since 1919, the series went on a ten-year hiatus starting in 1947 and lasting until 1957. The game was played in South Bend for the first time and the Fighting Irish won 27–7. Since then, there have been infrequent meetings over the past several decades, and Army's last win was 65 years ago in 1958.

Like Navy, due to the small capacity of Army's Michie Stadium, the Cadets played their home games at a neutral site, which for a number of years was Yankee Stadium and before that, the Polo Grounds. In 1957, the game was played in Philadelphia's Municipal (later John F. Kennedy Memorial) Stadium while in 1965, the teams met at the year-old Shea Stadium in Queens. They last met at the original Yankee Stadium in 1969; it was played at West Point in 1973, and the Fighting Irish rolled 62–3 on their way to the national championship. In more recent times, games in which Army was the host have been played at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Notre Dame leads the series 39–8–4 (.804).[3] Their latest matchup came in 2016, when the teams met for the 2016 Shamrock series in the Alamodome in San Antonio; Notre Dame won easily, 44–6, and the Irish have won the last fifteen, the longest streak in the rivalry's history.

• The Plain, West Point, NY: 1913–1922 (10 times)
• Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, NY: 1923 (once)
• Polo Grounds, New York, NY: 1924 (once)
• Yankee Stadium (1923), Bronx, NY: 1925-29, 1931–1946, 1969 (22 times)
• Soldier Field, Chicago, IL: 1930 (once)
• Notre Dame Stadium, South Bend, IN: 1947, 1958, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1985, 1998, 2006 (9 times)
• Philadelphia Municipal Stadium, 1957 (once)
• Shea Stadium, Queens, NY: 1965 (once)
• Michie Stadium, West Point, NY: 1973 (once)
• Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ: 1977, 1983, 1995 (thrice)
• Yankee Stadium (current), Bronx, NY: 2010
• Alamodome, San Antonio, TX: 2016

• List of NCAA college football rivalry games