NEW YEAR’S DAY FOOTBALL: When Notre Dame Played a Regular Season Game on New Year’s Day — 8 Years Before the First Rose Bowl

Notre Dame’s first New Year’s Day football game was not the 1925 Rose Bowl, when Knute Rockne, the Four Horsemen and the Seven Mules beat Stanford to cap off a 1924 National Championship season. According to the Notre Dame Football Media Guide’s game-by-game history, Notre Dame’s first New Year’s Day game was on January 1st, 1894, in a regular season

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IRISH NEWSLINK: “[2007 Article Re: Notre Dame & Rose Bowl] When they were riding high” – Los Angeles Times 10.2.07

Knute Rockne File Photo, adapted from image at loc.gov

“Outlined against the ‘rock-ribbed ledges’ of the Arroyo Seco and ‘the broad sweep of a mild sun,’ the Four Horsemen rode one last time in the Rose Bowl of Jan. 1, 1925. Notre Dame arrived Dec. 31, only one day in advance of its 27-10 victory over Stanford. The game punctuated a 10-0 season, a first consensus national title, coaching

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NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL: “The Flat Game” – Can Notre Dame Avoid a Flat Game Recurrence Against Alabama in Rose Bowl CFP National Semifinal? Probably

File Photo of AT&T Stadium adapted from inage at biomassboard.gov

Notre Dame has cycled through various positives and negatives, mostly positives, throughout the Brian Kelly era.  Yet one of the UFO-like curiosities has been — The Flat Game. There is a quote that sounds like it belongs with Mark Twain, yet in reality was from Oliver Wendell Holmes, about how a sleeping dog knows whether somebody tripped over him or

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