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The winner of the annual rivalry game is awarded the coveted Jeweled Shillelagh, a war club adorned with emerald emblazoned clovers signifying Fighting Irish victories and Ruby emblazoned Trojan warrior heads for Trojan wins. When the original shillelagh ran out of space for the Trojan heads and shamrocks after the 1. Notre Dame. A new shillelagh was introduced for the 1. Through the 2. 01. Notre Dame leads the series 4. The origin of the series is quite often recounted as a conversation between wives4 of Notre Dame head coach Knute Rockne and USC athletic director Gywnn Wilson. In fact, many sports writers often cite this popular story as the main reason the two schools decided to play one another. QkIR5RKX' alt='Navy Notre Dame Game' title='Navy Notre Dame Game' />As the story goes, the rivalry began with USC looking for a national rival. USC dispatched Wilson and his wife to Lincoln, Nebraska, where Notre Dame was playing Nebraska on Thanksgiving Day. On that day Nebraska 1. Notre Dame 0 Knute Rockne resisted the idea of a home and home series with USC because of the travel involved, but Mrs. Wilson was able to persuade Mrs. Rockne that a trip every two years to sunny Southern California was better than one to snowy, hostile Nebraska. Mrs. Rockne spoke to her husband and on December 4, 1. USC became an annual fixture on Notre Dames schedule. However, several college football historians, including Murray Sperber, have uncovered evidence that somewhat contradicts this story. Analysis Passing judgment at Notre Dame begins with Brian Kelly Orlando is in Notre Dames future, and maybe VanGorder, too. The NavyNotre Dame series has been played annually since 1927, making it the longest uninterrupted intersectional series in college football. Notre Dame leads the. The Official Athletic Site of Notre Dame Football, partner of CBS Sports Digital. The most comprehensive coverage of the Fighting Irish on the web. Tickets for Football games buy Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Football single game tickets at Ticketmaster. Find game schedules and team promotions. Notre Dame Fighting Irish Kids Clothing. We feature all of our official Fighting Irish gear in sizes for infants, toddlers and kids. You can find a full line of. Check out the Notre Dame vs. NC State fearless prediction and game preview. Of the most contradictory parts is the idea that Rockne was resistant to playing out west. Sperber documents that USC offered to play Notre Dame back in 1. Rose Bowl. 5 Notre Dame ultimately played Stanford that year because they were the Pacific Coast Conference champs. But due to the large alumni support for an annual season ending game in Los Angeles and the still existing interest for a home and home series, Notre Dame and USC started playing the series the following year in 1. The series creation was also likely aided by USC coach Howard Jones, whom Rockne recommended USC hire due to their long friendship. Since 1. Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend in mid October and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which serves as USCs home field, in late November. Navy Notre Dame Game Tickets' title='Navy Notre Dame Game Tickets' />Originally the game was played in both locations in late November, but because of poor weather during that time of the year at South Bend, USC insisted on having the game moved to October in 1. Navy U. S. Naval AcademyeditThe NavyNotre Dame series has been played annually since 1. Notre Dame Fighting Irish football schedule, future football schedules, nonconference opponents and news. Weather Report For Saturdays Notre Dame Irish vs N. C. State Wolfpack Football Game in South Bend, Ind. Brian Kelly is excited for this weeks game as Notre Dame will battle USC. The SportsTalk Live panel looks ahead to the Notre DameGeorgia game and discusses its. Notre Dame leads the series 7. Before Navy won a 4. Notre Dame had a 4. Division I FBS football. Navys previous win came in 1. Heisman Trophy winner and NFL QB Roger Staubach at the helm. Navy had come close to winning on numerous occasions before 2. They subsequently won again in 2. Despite the one sided result the last few decades, most Notre Dame and Navy fans consider the series a sacred tradition for historical reasons. Both schools have strong football traditions going back to the beginnings of the sport. Notre Dame, like many colleges, faced severe financial difficulties during World War II. The US Navy made Notre Dame a training center and paid enough for usage of the facilities to keep the University afloat. Notre Dame has since extended an open invitation for Navy to play the Fighting Irish in football and considers the game annual repayment on a debt of honor. The series is marked by mutual respect, as evidenced by each team standing at attention during the playing of the others alma mater after the game, a tradition that started in 2. Navys athletic director, on renewing the series through 2. Fighting Irish fans, Naval Academy alumni, and the Navy family at large. The series is scheduled to continue indefinitely renewals are a mere formality. Shortly before the start of the 2. ESPN polled the head coaches in the so called Power Five football conferences, plus Notre Dames Brian Kelly, as to whether they would favor a schedule consisting only of Power 5 opponents. Kelly was adamantly opposed to such a requirement if it meant taking Navy off the schedule, specifically calling a potential loss of the Navy game a deal breaker. The series is a home and home series with the schools alternating the home team. Due to the relatively small size of the football stadium in Annapolis, the two teams have never met there. Instead, Navy usually hosts the game at larger facilities such as Baltimores old Memorial Stadium or current M T Bank Stadium, Fed. Ex. Field in Landover, Maryland, Veterans Stadium and later Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, or at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. During the 1. 96. Midshipmen hosted the game at John F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Philadelphia. In 1. 99. 6 the game was played at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland. The game returned to Dublin in 2. Aviva Stadium hosted the event won by Notre Dame 5. The game was also occasionally played at old Cleveland Stadium. In years when Navy hosts even numbered, it is one of few non Southeastern Conference games aired on CBS. In years when Notre Dame hosts odd numbered, it is carried on NBC as are other Notre Dame home games. StanfordeditThe Fighting Irish have a rivalry with the Stanford Cardinal for the Legends Trophy, a combination of Fighting Irish crystal with California redwood. The two teams first met in the 1. Rose Bowl, then played each other in 1. The modern series began in 1. Notre Dame sought out a school to play out west over Thanksgiving weekend during the years that USC plays in South Bend. The series has been played annually except in 1. The rivalry has become more competitive in recent years, during the tenures of Stanford coaches Jim Harbaugh and David Shaw. Notre Dame and Stanford are regularly ranked in the U. S. News World Report top 2. America, and both share a mission to develop student athletes that can compete in the classroom and on the football field. As a result, both schools often compete for similar types of athletes in recruiting. Notre Dame leads the series 1. When the game is played in Palo Alto, it is usually the last game on Stanfords schedule as has been the case since 1. Cardinal plays archrival Cal in The Big Game. All but one of the games in South Bend have been played in October the only exception, in 2. Saturday of September. Previous annual rivalrieseditMichigan StateeditNotre Dame also has a rivalry with Michigan State University that began in 1. From 1. 95. 9 to 2. Fighting Irish played Michigan State every year without interruption, except for a two year hiatus in 1. The next scheduled game is in 2. The 1. 96. 6 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game is regarded as one of the Games of the Century and is still talked about to this day because of the way it ended in a 1. Since polls began in 1.