the 9th time notre dame claimed a national championship in football was in 1973.
the 9th time notre dame claimed a national championship in football was in 1973.
when was the 9th time notre dame claimed a national championship in football?
1973
the first college football game played in yankee stadium was a 3-0 syracuse victory over pittsburgh on october 20, 1923. when an ill ruth could not lead the yankees to the world series in 1925, college football took center stage at yankee stadium that fall. the fiercely competitive notre dame–army game moved to yankee stadium, where it remained until 1947. in the 1928 game, with the score 0–0 at halftime, legendary notre dame coach knute rockne gave his "win one for the gipper" speech (with reference to all-american halfback george gipp, who died in 1920); notre dame went on to defeat army, 12–6. the 1929 game between the two teams had the highest attendance in the series at 79,408. the 1946 army vs. notre dame football game at yankee stadium is regarded as one of the 20th century college football games of the century. notre dame played 24 games at yankee stadium, going 15–6–3. army played 38, compiling a 17–17–4 record (including the best-attended game, on december 1, 1928 when army lost to stanford 26–0 before 86,000 fans). new york university played more games there than any other school, 96, using it as a secondary home field from 1923 to 1948, with a record of 52–40–4. nearby fordham university played 19 games there, going 13–5–1. eight college football games were played at yankee stadium on thanksgiving day, the first seven by new york university. perhaps, the most famous thanksgiving day game was the first. oregon state agricultural college (now oregon state) was the first west coast team to travel across the country and play an east coast team. 8–1 nyu was a 3–1 favorite to beat 5–3 osac, but oregon state upset the hometown favorites 25–13. will rogers lamented what the "oregon apple knockers" had done to his "city slickers" in a column after the game. after the 1928 game, nyu beat carnegie tech (now carnegie mellon university) in 1931 and 1932, defeated fordham in 1936, lost to carnegie tech in 1929, and lost to fordham in 1934 and 1935. in the eighth game, in 1963, syracuse beat notre dame, 14–7. this was a rematch following the teams' controversial 1961 game won by notre dame, 17–15. the gotham bowl was scheduled to premiere at yankee stadium in 1960, but was canceled when no opponent could be found for oregon state university. the 1961 game was moved to the polo grounds, and when just 6,166 people came to yankee stadium for the 1962 game, in which the university of nebraska defeated the university of miami, 36–34, the gotham bowl was never played again. the miami-nebraska game remains the only college bowl ever played at the stadium. in 1969, notre dame and army reprised their long series at the stadium (1925–1946 except 1930) with one final game. starting in 1971, the stadium hosted the whitney m. young urban league classic, a game between historically black colleges, often featuring grambling state university of louisiana, coached by eddie robinson, the first college coach to win 400 games. the classic helped to spread the fame of grambling and other similar schools. yankee stadium hosted its final classic during the 1987 season, also the last time a football game was played there. grambling lost to central state university of ohio, 37–21. the classic has been held at giants stadium and metlife stadium in new jersey's meadowlands sports complex ever since, though the yankees remain a supporter of the event. in 1926, after negotiations failed with the fledgling nfl and the chicago bears, red grange and his agent c.c. pyle formed the first american football league and fielded a team called the new york yankees based in yankee stadium. the league failed after only one year, but the team continued as a member of the nfl for two seasons before ceasing operations. a second new york yankees football team, not related to the first, split its home games between yankee stadium and downing stadium as it competed in the second afl in 1936 and 1937. a third afl new york yankees took the field in 1940 and became the new york americans in 1941. the new york yankees of the all-america football conference (aafc) played their home games at yankee stadium from 1946 to 1949. following the 1949 season, the nfl new york bulldogs acquired many of the players from the 1949 yankees. using the name the new york yanks they played two seasons at yankee stadium, 1950 and 1951. the new york giants of the nfl played their home games at yankee stadium from 1956 to 1973. on december 28, 1958, yankee stadium hosted the nfl championship game, frequently called "the greatest game ever played". the baltimore colts tied the giants, 17–17, on a field goal with seven seconds left. led by quarterback johnny unitas, the colts won in overtime, 23–17. the game's dramatic ending is often cited as elevating professional football to one of the united states' major sports. additionally, one of the most notable plays in nfl history occurred at yankee stadium on november 20, 1960 when the philadelphia eagles' chuck bednarik forcefully tackled the giants' frank gifford in the last minute of a close game, forcing a fumble recovered by the eagles that clinched the victory for philadelphia and ultimately helped the eagles dethrone the two-time defending champion giants as nfl eastern division champions. the hit left gifford with a concussion and forced his temporary retirement from football for the remainder of the 1960 season and all of the 1961 season. the giants played their first two home games at yankee stadium in 1973, concluding their tenancy on september 23 with a 23–23 tie against the philadelphia eagles. in october, they moved to the yale bowl in new haven, connecticut, for the rest of the season.
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the fighting irish and falcons first met in 1964, with the fighting irish prevailing 34–7, and proceeded to play each other annually from 1972–91 (they didn't meet in 1976). notre dame won the first 11 contests before gerry faust's teams lost four straight in the early 1980s. one of the most memorable games was the 1975 contest in which notre dame, trailing 30–10 in the fourth quarter, rallied behind joe montana for a 31–30 comeback win. in the match-up in 2007, the fighting irish came into the game matching their worst start in notre dame history with a 1–8 record. the falcons won for the first time since 1996, 41–24, the largest margin of victory for air force in six wins over the fighting irish, the biggest by a military academy since navy beat the fighting irish 35–14 in 1963 behind roger staubach, and the first time that air force had ever scored 40 points in a game against notre dame. it marked the first time notre dame had lost to two service academies in the same season since 1944 and it was also a school-record sixth straight home loss for the fighting irish. notre dame leads the series 24–6. in 2010, notre dame and air force agreed to a home-and-home football series starting with the 2011 season. the series began when air force visited notre dame stadium on october 8, 2011, with notre dame prevailing 59–33. the series finale was a 45–10 notre dame win at falcon stadium on october 26, 2013.
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