One of the things I want to do in 2022 is learn more Notre Dame football history, so for the next 11 stories I’m going to pick a game from each of the 11 national championship years to learn a bit more about our national championship teams. This week I’m writing about the 1924 championship team and the game against Army on October 18th, 1924. Here’s an excerpt from the 1924 Football Review.
Again the “Fighting Irish” swept out of the West to meet their traditional foe of the Plains. But this time the scene of the battle was set not on the majestic “Storm King” but down at “Coogan’s Bluff,” before sixty thousand frenzied rooters.