November 17th

On Saturday November 17^th when the Irish take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons it will be the 14^th game Notre Dame has played on this date (currently 9-4), but none have had a more interesting twist than this one.

November 17^th 1928: Notre Dame loses to Carnegie Tech, 27-7, in a shocking upset. The game, played 84 years ago before a standing-room-only crowd at Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field, is legendary. Notre Dame came to Pittsburgh undefeated and with a super-stingy defense that had not yielded a single point in eight games. A national championship seemed to be well in hand with only two games remaining, Tech and USC. Conversely, Tech, which had fallen to Notre Dame the previous four years in a row by a combined score of 111-19, brought a 6-2 mark into its final contest of the season. The Irish were such heavy favorites that head coach Knute Rockne chose to stay in Chicago to attend the Army-Navy game at Soldier Field, and left the team in the hands of his top assistants. It was a move he would regret. This was the first home defeat for Notre Dame since 1905, when the Irish lost to the Little Giants of Wabash College, 5-0.

Source: Notre Dame Game Notes – Wake Forest