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Notre Dame Fighting Irish Bio The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, sometimes called Notre Dame or the Irish, is an American football team that competes as an Independent school in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I-A and represents the University of Notre Dame on the gridiron. Over the past century, the Irish have been the most successful and popular sports team in college football, enabling the university to negotiate its own national television contract for their home games with NBC—a feat unheard of in United States amateur sports. The university is one of two Catholic universities that field a team in Division I-A, the other being Boston College, and one of a handful of programs independent of a football conference. The team plays its home games at Notre Dame Stadium, also known as "the House that Rockne Built," which is located on Notre Dame's campus and seats over 81,000 people, comparable in size to many professional American football venues. Notre Dame claims 11 Consensus National Championships in football, but there have been 24 years in which Notre Dame finished the season atop some ranking system.
American football did not
have an auspicious beginning at the University of Notre Dame. In their
inaugural game on November 23 1887 the Irish lost to the University of
Michigan Wolverines by a score of 8-0. Their first win came in the final
game of the 1888 season when the Irish defeated Harvard Prep by a score
of 20-0. At the end of the 1888 season they had a record of 1-3 with all
three losses being at the hands of Michigan by a combined score of 43-9.
Between 1887 and 1899 Notre Dame compiled a record of 31 wins, 15
losses, and 4 ties against a diverse variety of opponents ranging from
local high school teams to other universities.
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