1922 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

1922 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–1–1
Head coach	Knute Rockne (5th season)
Offensive scheme	Notre Dame Box
Base defense	7–2–2
Captain	Glen Carberry
Home stadium	Cartier Field

1922 Midwestern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Western State Normal (MI)			–					6	–	0	–	0
Bradley			–					9	–	0	–	1
Marquette			–					8	–	0	–	1
Central Michigan			–					6	–	0	–	2
Notre Dame			–					8	–	1	–	1
Butler			–					8	–	2	–	0
Haskell			–					8	–	2	–	0
Detroit			–					7	–	2	–	1
Michigan Mines			–					1	–	0	–	1
Wabash			–					7	–	3	–	0
St. Ignatius (OH)			–					4	–	1	–	3
Dayton			–					6	–	3	–	0
Saint Louis			–					6	–	3	–	1
Valparaiso			–					3	–	2	–	2
Baldwin–Wallace			–					4	–	3	–	1
DePauw			–					4	–	3	–	2
Michigan Agricultural			–					3	–	5	–	2
Earlham			–					2	–	6	–	0
Kent State			–					0	–	7	–	0

The 1922 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1922 college football season, led by fifth-year head coach Knute Rockne.

The Irish played a scoreless tie at Army on Armistice Day,^[1] and lost the season finale at Nebraska on Thanksgiving for an 8–1–1 record.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30	Kalamazoo	Cartier Field Notre Dame, IN	W 56–0	5,000
October 7	Saint Louis	Cartier Field Notre Dame, IN	W 26–0	6,000–7,000	[3]
October 14	at Purdue	Stuart Field West Lafayette, IN (rivalry)	W 20–0	9,000
October 21	DePauw	Cartier Field Notre Dame, IN	W 34–7	5,000
October 28	at Georgia Tech	Grant Field Atlanta, GA (rivalry)	W 13–3	18,000–20,000	[4]
November 4	Indiana	Cartier Field Notre Dame IN	W 27–0	22,000
November 11	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0	15,000	[1]
November 18	at Butler	Indianapolis, IN	W 31–3	12,000
November 25	at Carnegie Tech	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA	W 19–0	30,000
November 30	at Nebraska	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE (rivalry)	L 6–14	16,000	[2]

^[5]

References

1. "Forward passes fail, Army held scoreless". Milwaukee Journal. November 12, 1922. p. 1, part 3.
2. "Notre Dame closes with defeat, 14 to 6". Milwaukee Journal. December 1, 1922. p. 45.
3. Holland, Joseph F. (October 8, 1922). "Billiken, Defeated, 26-0, Hold Notre Dame Team to Six Points in First Half". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. p. 3S. Retrieved July 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
4. "Passes prove too much for Georgia Tech". Fort Worth Record-Telegram. October 29, 1922. Retrieved December 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "1922 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Retrieved October 6, 2015.