Spanish Influenza epidemic that struck the world. [17], With a 3–5 record, the Irish would need to win all of their remaining games to avoid Davie's second losing season for the team. 23 Notre Dame Falls To Michigan State, 17–10", "Carlyle Holiday Named Starting Quarterback", "Football Earns First Win Of The Season Over Pittsburgh, 24–7", "Irish Football Puts Away West Virginia, 34–24", "No. The Official Athletic Site of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Notre Dame offered to return to play Iowa on Dec. 7, but Iowa replied “to extend the season two additional weeks would interfere too much with class work and other university activities.”. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Opp Pts/G: 19.5 (21st of 117) SRS: 6.00 (40th of 117) SOS: 6.54 (6th of 117) Notre Dame School History.

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Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. [12] With Holiday back the next week, he led the Irish to their first victory of the season against the Pittsburgh Panthers,[13] and continued to roll with wins over West Virginia and USC to put the Irish back to a 3–3 record.

The decision not to play also followed a Big East Conference (where Notre Dame competed in 20 sports) announcement to postpone all conference competition. Shortly after midnight, that plan was vetoed by Notre Dame president Rev. In the game, Oregon State quarterback Jonathan Smith threw for 305 yards and 3 touchdowns and led the Beavers to a 41–9 rout. With 19 recruits signed to help replace the nine players leaving for the NFL,[1] there were high expectations for the Irish for the 2001 season. More 2001 Notre Dame Pages. © 2020 Verizon Media.

With former starting quarterback, Arnaz Battle, moving in the off-season to wide receiver, Davie faced the decision of having to play his replacement from 2000, Matt LoVecchio, or to replace LoVecchio with fellow sophomore Carlyle Holiday. The team was coached by Bob Davie and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana .

[19] Assured of Notre Dame's eighth losing season ever, the Irish traveled to face the Purdue Boilermakers for the game missed after the September 11 attacks. The Official Athletic Site of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Three players were named to pre-season All-America teams while the team was ranked as highly as 12th in the nation. Notre Dame's first play from scrimmage proved to be a harbinger when the Irish fumbled and Nebraska recovered. Meanwhile, Notre Dame still had a Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 28) game remaining at New York City’s Yankee Stadium versus Syracuse. “We believe the horrific developments Tuesday warrant a national period of bereavement and a moratorium as far as athletics are concerned,” Notre Dame director of athletics Kevin White summarized. With LoVecchio ineffective throughout the first quarter, Holiday took over and led the Irish to a field goal.

For the third time in just more than 100 years, a Notre Dame football game has been postponed.

Prior to their first game… As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. Coach: Bob Davie (5-6) Points For: 214. Find out more. 5 Nebraska, 27–10", "Football Fans Can Expect A Heightened Security Presence In And Around The Stadium This Saturday", "Prayer, Song To Mark Football Home Opener", "No. 2001 Notre Dame Statistics. The team was coached by Bob Davie and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. 13 Stanford, 17–13", "Irish Football Puts Away Purdue, 24–18", "Davie's tenure at ND ends after five seasons", 2001 NCAA Division I-A independents football season, Notre Dame Fighting Irish football seasons. The most comprehensive coverage of The Fighting Irish Football roster, schedule game summaries, scores, highlights on … Despite wearing their green jerseys for that one, Notre Dame lost 14-7 to finish 2-7. On Friday night while the Notre Dame players were in the hotel, the two athletics directors, Notre Dame’s Ed “Moose” Krause and Iowa’s Forest Evashevski, told reporters the game would be played. The other two aforementioned postponements or cancellations came during two catastrophes in United States history: Not since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States has the sports landscape been so altered. With 19 recruits signed to help replace the nine players leaving for the NFL, there were high expectations for the Irish for the 2001 season. 17 Irish Drop Season-Opener To No. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Friday Nov. 22, 1963 led to Notre Dame cancelling its football game the next day at Iowa (it was never rescheduled). Despite wearing their green jerseys for that one, Notre Dame lost 14-7 to finish 2-7. Following Notre Dame's opening game defeat at Nebraska on Sept. 8, it was business as usual that Monday with player and coaches interviews after practice near the tunnel on the north end of Notre Dame Stadium. In its end-of-season review, Notre Dame’s student magazine, Scholastic, summarized the frustration that saw the football operation from 1956-63 tally a 34-45 record. [21], 2001 NCAA Division I-A independents football records, "Notre Dame Football Gets Early Praise In Preseason Polls", "No.

Prior to their first game, Davie hinted that he might have a surprise at quarterback,[4] however, LoVecchio started at the fourth-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Points/G: 19.5 (100th of 117) Points Against: 215.

The 2000 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. With LoVecchio getting the start, he had a better game than his first, but the Irish fell short of the Spartans for the fifth straight year. Note: During World War II the Notre Dame-USC series was not played from 1942-45 while travel restrictions were enforced nationally. More 2001 Notre Dame Pages. Four other Big Ten games scheduled for that Saturday were postponed, as were AFL games. 7 Tennessee Tops Notre Dame, 28–18", "Football Falls To No. The game was played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, between #5 Oregon State and #10 Notre Dame. Three players were named to pre-season All-America teams while the team was ranked as highly as 12th in the nation.

Theodore Hesburgh C.S.C., who was that day involved in meetings with the National Science Board in Boulder, Colo. “What amazed me is that on Friday people actually expected us to play a football game the next day,” Hesburgh recalled in a 1983 interview, on the 20th anniversary of the assassination. Are you a Stathead, too? [10] Though LoVecchio would play in later games, he would never start again for the Irish and eventually transferred from the school.

With all Division I-A football games canceled after the attacks,[6] the September 15 game against Purdue was moved to the end of the season. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. All football activities have been paused this week, including speaking with the media.

Still, 2-6 Notre Dame under interim coach Hugh Devore departed after that Friday practice to Iowa City. Please update it here.

Back then, though, it resulted in the cancellation of Division I-A college and NFL games for only that week, but in many cases they would be rescheduled later. But the campaign ended then and there with a 3-3-2 record. But, also, life must go on. Just more than 100 years ago, 1918, the Spanish Influenza epidemic that struck the world had the most profound impact on the nation when it came to sports, including an abbreviated Notre Dame football season.

See our list of forfeits and vacated games for more details. Do you have a sports website? Do you have a blog? • Learn more about our print and digital publication, Blue & Gold Illustrated. Single Season Rushing TD, Single Season Receiving Yards, ... College Football Scores. All rights reserved. [2] With former starting quarterback, Arnaz Battle, moving in the off-season to wide receiver,[3] Davie faced the decision of having to play his replacement from 2000, Matt LoVecchio, or to replace LoVecchio with fellow sophomore Carlyle Holiday. The 1942 Rose Bowl was shifted from Pasadena, Calif., to Duke’s campus in Durham, N.C., because of fears about more attacks on the West Coast by the Japanese after doing so at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? [11] Playing in front of, at the time, the largest crowd ever to watch a football game in Texas, Holiday was knocked out of the game with a neck injury before halftime. Or write about sports? “Some say you shouldn't be playing football when they are still taking bodies out,'' Steinbrecher told The New York Times, referring to the recovery efforts. With promises of heightened security,[7] prayers, and a stadium-wide fundraiser to help the victims of the attacks,[8] the Irish returned to the field the next week to face the Michigan State Spartans. The Irish looked to turn it around with a dominating win over Navy that increased their record winning streak over them to 38 games,[18] however, fell to Stanford the next week after both Holiday and LoVecchio completed only one pass each the entire game.