Aerial view of Cartier Field in 1920.
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| Location | Notre Dame, Indiana United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°41′53″N 86°14′02″W / 41.698°N 86.234°W / 41.698; -86.234 |
| Owner | University of Notre Dame |
| Operator | University of Notre Dame |
| Capacity | 500? (creation) 14,000 (1920) 15,000 (1921) <30,000 (peak) |
| Surface | Natural grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | June, 1899 |
| Opened | May 11, 1900; 124 years ago (1900-05-11) |
Cartier Field was a stadiuminNotre Dame, Indiana, first dedicated on May 11, 1900, as an arena for football, baseball, track and field, and bicycling. It hosted the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team from 1900 to 1928 and held nearly 30,000 people at its peak. The stands were torn down after the 1928 season to make room for Notre Dame Stadium, which opened in 1930. Notre Dame played its entire 1929 schedule away from campus ("home" games were at Chicago's Soldier Field), went undefeated (9–0) and won the National Championship. At Coach Knute Rockne's insistence, Cartier Field's grass was transplanted into Notre Dame Stadium.
For more than 30 years after the football team moved out, Cartier Field remained the home of Notre Dame's baseball and track and field teams. In 1962, the original Cartier Field was replaced by a quadrangle adjoining the Memorial Library, which opened in 1963, and a new facility named Cartier Field was opened east of Notre Dame Stadium. Since 2008, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team has held outdoor practices at the LaBar Football Practice Fields and indoor practices at Meyo Field in the Loftus Center until 2019. Since 2019, the team has moved indoor practices to the newly constructed Irish Athletic Center.
It was named after Warren Antoine Cartier, an 1887 civil engineering graduate and former member of the football team who purchased 10 acres (4.0 ha) and donated it to the university for establishment of the field. He also paid for furnishing the lumber required to enclose the field with fencing and construct a grandstand.[1]
The Irish entertained many notable people on the athletic field by allowing them kicking drills or other activities. Babe Ruth visited the field in 1926, and Jack Dempsey underwent kicking drills in 1936.[2]
The Fighting Irish would officially amass a 117–2–6 record at Cartier Field (with an additional three to five wins and one loss coming in the 1899 season before the field was dedicated) with their two losses coming against Wabash in 1905, and Carnegie Tech in 1928, which happened to be the last match football game played on the field. During this 29-year stretch, the Irish also recorded some of the longest home winning streaks in the history of college football, with 40 consecutive wins from 1907 to 1918, and 38 consecutive wins from 1919 to 1927 (if not for a tie against Great Lakes Navy in 1918, the streak would have been 79 consecutive contests).[3] In terms of unbeaten streaks, the Irish were undefeated at home for 23 years and 93 contests, from 1905 to 1928.
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 27, 1899 | Englewood High School | W 29–5 | 600+ | [4] | |
| October 23, 1899 | Indiana | W 17–0 | 800+ | [5] | |
| November 4, 1899 | Rush Medical | W 17–0 | [6][7] | ||
| November 30, 1899 | Chicago Physicians and Surgeons | L 0–5 | 2,000 | [8][9] | |
| September 29, 1900 | Goshen (High School) | W 55–0 | |||
| October 6, 1900 | Englewood High School | W 68–0 | |||
| October 13, 1900 | South Bend Howard Park Club | W 64–0 | |||
| October 26, 1900 | Cincinnati | W 57–0 | |||
| November 3, 1900 | Beloit | T 6–6 | |||
| November 24, 1900 | Rush Medical | W 5–0 | |||
| November 29, 1900 | Chicago Physicians and Surgeons | W 5–0 | |||
| September 28, 1901 | South Bend Athletic Association | T 0–0 | [10] | ||
| October 19, 1901 | Chicago Eclectic Medical | W 32–0 | [11] | ||
| November 2, 1901 | Lake Forest | W 16–0 | [12] | ||
| November 9, 1901 | Purdue | W 12–6 | [13] | ||
| November 16, 1901 | Indiana | W 18–5 | [14] | ||
| November 23, 1901 | Chicago Physicians & Surgeons | W 34–0 | [15] | ||
| September 27, 1902 | Michigan Agricultural | W 33–0 | [16] | ||
| October 11, 1902 | Lake Forest | W 28–0 | [17] | ||
| November 15, 1902 | American Medical | W 92–0 | [18] | ||
| November 22, 1902 | atDePauw | W 22–0 | [19] | ||
| October 3, 1903 | Michigan Agricultural | W 12–0 | |||
| October 10, 1903 | Lake Forest | W 28–0 | |||
| October 24, 1903 | American Medical | W 52–0 | |||
| October 29, 1903 | Chicago Physicians & Surgeons | W 46–0 | |||
| November 7, 1903 | Kirksville Osteopath | W 28–0 | |||
| October 1, 1904 | Wabash | W 12–4 | |||
| October 8, 1904 | American Medical | W 44–0 | |||
| October 27, 1904 | Toledo Athletic Association | W 6–0 | [20] | ||
| November 19, 1904 | DePauw | W 10–0 | |||
| September 30, 1905 | North Division High School | W 44–0 | |||
| October 7, 1905 | Michigan Agricultural | W 28–0 | |||
| October 21, 1905 | Wabash | L 0–5 | |||
| October 28, 1905 | American Medical | W 142–0 | |||
| November 4, 1905 | DePauw | W 71–0 | |||
| November 18, 1905 | Bennett Medical | W 22–0 | |||
| October 6, 1906 | Franklin | W 26–0 | |||
| October 13, 1906 | Hillsdale | W 17–0 | |||
| October 20, 1906 | Chicago Physicians and Surgeons | W 28–0 | |||
| October 27, 1906 | Michigan Agricultural | W 5–0 | |||
| November 24, 1906 | Beloit | W 29–0 | |||
| October 12, 1907 | Chicago Physicians and Surgeons | W 32–0 | |||
| October 19, 1907 | Franklin | W 23–0 | |||
| October 26, 1907 | Olivet | W 22–4 | |||
| November 2, 1907 | Indiana | T 0–0 | |||
| November 9, 1907 | Knox | W 22–4 | |||
| October 3, 1908 | Hillsdale | W 39–0 | [21] | ||
| October 10, 1908 | Franklin | W 64–0 | [22] | ||
| October 24, 1908 | Chicago Physicians and Surgeons | W 88–0 | [23] | ||
| October 29, 1908 | Ohio Northern | W 58–4 | [24] | ||
| November 18, 1908 | St. Viator | W 46–0 | [25] | ||
| October 9, 1909 | Olivet | W 58–0 | |||
| October 16, 1909 | Rose Polytechnic | W 60–11 | |||
| October 23, 1909 | Michigan Agricultural | W 17–0 | |||
| October 30, 1909 | atPittsburgh | W 6–0 | |||
| November 6, 1909 | atMichigan | W 11–3 | |||
| November 13, 1909 | Miami (OH) | W 46–0 | |||
| November 20, 1909 | Wabash | W 38–0 | |||
| October 8, 1910 | Olivet | W 48–0 | |||
| October 22, 1910 | Buchtel | W 51–0 | |||
| November 19, 1910 | Ohio Northern | W 47–0 | |||
| October 7, 1911 | Ohio Northern | W 32–6 | |||
| October 14, 1911 | St. Viator | W 43–0 | |||
| October 21, 1911 | Butler | W 27–0 | |||
| October 28, 1911 | Loyola (IL) | W 80–0 | |||
| November 11, 1911 | St. Bonaventure | W 34–0 | |||
| October 5, 1912 | St. Viator | W 116–7 | [26] | ||
| October 12, 1912 | Adrian | W 74–7 | [27] | ||
| October 19, 1912 | Morris Harvey | W 39–0 | [28] | ||
| October 26, 1912 | Wabash | W 41–6 | [29] | ||
| October 4, 1913 | Ohio Northern | W 87–0 | |||
| October 18, 1913 | South Dakota | W 20–7 | |||
| October 25, 1913 | Alma | W 62–0 | |||
| October 3, 1914 | Alma | W 56–0 | |||
| October 10, 1914 | Rose Polytechnic | W 103–0 | |||
| October 31, 1914 | Haskell | W 21–7 | |||
| October 2, 1915 | Alma | W 32–0 | |||
| October 9, 1915 | Haskell | W 34–0 | |||
| October 30, 1915 | South Dakota | W 6–0 | |||
| September 30, 1916 | Case | W 48–0 | |||
| October 14, 1916 | Haskell | W 25–0 | |||
| October 28, 1916 | Wabash | W 60–0 | |||
| November 25, 1916 | Alma | W 46–0 | |||
| October 6, 1917 | Kalamazoo | W 55–0 | |||
| October 27, 1917 | South Dakota | W 40–0 | |||
| November 17, 1917 | Michigan Agricultural | W 23–0 | |||
| November 9, 1918 | Great Lakes Navy | T 7–7 | |||
| October 4, 1919 | Kalamazoo | W 14–0 | 5,000 | [30] | |
| October 11, 1919 | Mount Union | W 60–7 | 4,000 | [31] | |
| October 25, 1919 | Western State | W 53–0 | 2,500 | [32] | |
| November 15, 1919 | Michigan Agricultural | W 13–0 | 5,000 | [33] | |
| October 2, 1920 | Kalamazoo | W 39–0 | 5,000 | ||
| October 9, 1920 | Western State | W 42–0 | 3,500 | ||
| October 23, 1920 | Valparaiso | W 28–3 | 8,000 | ||
| November 6, 1920 | Purdue | W 28–0 | 12,000 | ||
| September 24, 1921 | Kalamazoo | W 56–0 | 8,000 | ||
| October 1, 1921 | DePauw | W 57–10 | 8,000 | ||
| October 22, 1921 | Nebraska | W 7–0 | 14,000 | ||
| November 12, 1921 | Haskell | W 42–7 | 5,000 | ||
| November 24, 1921 | Michigan Agricultural | W 48–0 | 15,000 | ||
| September 30, 1922 | Kalamazoo | W 56–0 | 5,000 | ||
| October 7, 1922 | Saint Louis | W 26–0 | 7,000 | ||
| October 21, 1922 | DePauw | W 34–7 | 5,000 | ||
| November 4, 1922 | Indiana | W 27–0 | 22,000 | ||
| September 29, 1923 | Kalamazoo | W 74–0 | 10,000 | [34] | |
| October 7, 1923 | Lombard | W 14–0 | 8,000 | [35] | |
| October 27, 1923 | atGeorgia Tech | W 35–7 | 20,000 | [36] | |
| November 3, 1923 | Purdue | W 34–7 | 20,000 | [37] | |
| November 17, 1923 | Butler | W 34–7 | 10,000 | [38] | |
| October 4, 1924 | Lombard | W 40–0 | 8,000 | ||
| October 11, 1924 | Wabash | W 34–0 | 10,000 | ||
| November 1, 1924 | Georgia Tech | W 34–3 | 22,000 | ||
| November 15, 1924 | Nebraska | W 34–6 | 22,000 | ||
| September 26, 1925 | Baylor | W 41–0 | 13,000 | [39] | |
| October 3, 1925 | Lombard | W 69–0 | 10,000 | [40] | |
| October 10, 1925 | Beloit | W 19–3 | > 6,000 | [41] | |
| November 14, 1925 | Carnegie Tech | W 26–0 | 26,000 | [42] | |
| November 21, 1925 | Northwestern | W 13–10 | 32,000 | [43] | |
| October 2, 1926 | Beloit | W 77–0 | 8,000 | ||
| October 16, 1926 | Penn State | W 28–0 | 18,000 | ||
| October 30, 1926 | Georgia Tech | W 12–0 | 11,000 | ||
| November 6, 1926 | Indiana | W 26–0 | 20,000 | ||
| November 20, 1926 | Drake | W 21–0 | 20,000 | ||
| October 1, 1927 | Coe | W 28–7 | 10,000 | [44] | |
| October 29, 1927 | Georgia Tech | W 26–7 | 17,000 | [45] | |
| November 5, 1927 | Minnesota | T 7–7 | 25,000 | [46] | |
| September 29, 1928 | Loyola (LA) | W 12–6 | 15,000 | ||
| October 27, 1928 | Drake | W 32–6 | 12,000 | ||
| November 17, 1928 | Carnegie Tech | L 7–27 | 27,000 |
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