Cartier Athletic Field
Aerial view of Cartier Field in 1920.
Cartier Athletic Field is located in Indiana
Cartier Athletic Field
Cartier Athletic Field
Location in Indiana
Cartier Athletic Field is located in the United States
Cartier Athletic Field
Cartier Athletic Field
Location in the United States
LocationNotre Dame, Indiana United States
Coordinates41°41′53″N 86°14′02″W / 41.698°N 86.234°W / 41.698; -86.234
OwnerUniversity of Notre Dame
OperatorUniversity of Notre Dame
Capacity500? (creation)
14,000 (1920)
15,000 (1921)
<30,000 (peak)
SurfaceNatural grass
Construction
Broke groundJune, 1899
OpenedMay 11, 1900; 123 years ago (1900-05-11)

Cartier Field was a stadium in Notre 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.

An early sketch of Cartier Field, as seen in the October 14, 1899 edition of the Notre Dame Scholastic.

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.

List of games

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27, 1899Englewood High SchoolW 29–5600+[4]
October 23, 1899IndianaW 17–0800+[5]
November 4, 1899Rush MedicalW 17–0[6][7]
November 30, 1899Chicago Physicians and SurgeonsL 0–52,000[8][9]
September 29, 1900Goshen (High School)W 55–0
October 6, 1900Englewood High SchoolW 68–0
October 13, 1900South Bend Howard Park ClubW 64–0
October 26, 1900CincinnatiW 57–0
November 3, 1900BeloitT 6–6
November 24, 1900Rush MedicalW 5–0
November 29, 1900Chicago Physicians and SurgeonsW 5–0
September 28, 1901South Bend Athletic AssociationT 0–0[10]
October 19, 1901Chicago Eclectic MedicalW 32–0[11]
November 2, 1901Lake ForestW 16–0[12]
November 9, 1901PurdueW 12–6[13]
November 16, 1901IndianaW 18–5[14]
November 23, 1901Chicago Physicians & SurgeonsW 34–0[15]
September 27, 1902Michigan AgriculturalW 33–0[16]
October 11, 1902Lake ForestW 28–0[17]
November 15, 1902American MedicalW 92–0[18]
November 22, 1902at DePauwW 22–0[19]
October 3, 1903Michigan AgriculturalW 12–0
October 10, 1903Lake ForestW 28–0
October 24, 1903American MedicalW 52–0
October 29, 1903Chicago Physicians & SurgeonsW 46–0
November 7, 1903Kirksville OsteopathW 28–0
October 1, 1904WabashW 12–4
October 8, 1904American MedicalW 44–0
October 27, 1904Toledo Athletic AssociationW 6–0[20]
November 19, 1904DePauwW 10–0
September 30, 1905North Division High SchoolW 44–0
October 7, 1905Michigan AgriculturalW 28–0
October 21, 1905WabashL 0–5
October 28, 1905American MedicalW 142–0
November 4, 1905DePauwW 71–0
November 18, 1905Bennett MedicalW 22–0
October 6, 1906FranklinW 26–0
October 13, 1906HillsdaleW 17–0
October 20, 1906Chicago Physicians and SurgeonsW 28–0
October 27, 1906Michigan AgriculturalW 5–0
November 24, 1906BeloitW 29–0
October 12, 1907Chicago Physicians and SurgeonsW 32–0
October 19, 1907FranklinW 23–0
October 26, 1907OlivetW 22–4
November 2, 1907IndianaT 0–0
November 9, 1907KnoxW 22–4
October 3, 1908HillsdaleW 39–0[21]
October 10, 1908FranklinW 64–0[22]
October 24, 1908Chicago Physicians and SurgeonsW 88–0[23]
October 29, 1908Ohio NorthernW 58–4[24]
November 18, 1908St. ViatorW 46–0[25]
October 9, 1909OlivetW 58–0
October 16, 1909Rose PolytechnicW 60–11
October 23, 1909Michigan AgriculturalW 17–0
October 30, 1909at PittsburghW 6–0
November 6, 1909at MichiganW 11–3
November 13, 1909Miami (OH)W 46–0
November 20, 1909WabashW 38–0
October 8, 1910OlivetW 48–0
October 22, 1910BuchtelW 51–0
November 19, 1910Ohio NorthernW 47–0
October 7, 1911Ohio NorthernW 32–6
October 14, 1911St. ViatorW 43–0
October 21, 1911ButlerW 27–0
October 28, 1911Loyola (IL)W 80–0
November 11, 1911St. BonaventureW 34–0
October 5, 1912St. ViatorW 116–7[26]
October 12, 1912AdrianW 74–7[27]
October 19, 1912Morris HarveyW 39–0[28]
October 26, 1912WabashW 41–6[29]
October 4, 1913Ohio NorthernW 87–0
October 18, 1913South DakotaW 20–7
October 25, 1913AlmaW 62–0
October 3, 1914AlmaW 56–0
October 10, 1914Rose PolytechnicW 103–0
October 31, 1914HaskellW 21–7
October 2, 1915AlmaW 32–0
October 9, 1915HaskellW 34–0
October 30, 1915South DakotaW 6–0
September 30, 1916CaseW 48–0
October 14, 1916HaskellW 25–0
October 28, 1916WabashW 60–0
November 25, 1916AlmaW 46–0
October 6, 1917KalamazooW 55–0
October 27, 1917South DakotaW 40–0
November 17, 1917Michigan AgriculturalW 23–0
November 9, 1918Great Lakes NavyT 7–7
October 4, 1919KalamazooW 14–05,000[30]
October 11, 1919Mount UnionW 60–74,000[31]
October 25, 1919Western StateW 53–02,500[32]
November 15, 1919Michigan AgriculturalW 13–05,000[33]
October 2, 1920KalamazooW 39–05,000
October 9, 1920Western StateW 42–03,500
October 23, 1920ValparaisoW 28–38,000
November 6, 1920PurdueW 28–012,000
September 24, 1921KalamazooW 56–08,000
October 1, 1921DePauwW 57–108,000
October 22, 1921NebraskaW 7–014,000
November 12, 1921HaskellW 42–75,000
November 24, 1921Michigan AgriculturalW 48–015,000
September 30, 1922KalamazooW 56–05,000
October 7, 1922Saint LouisW 26–07,000
October 21, 1922DePauwW 34–75,000
November 4, 1922IndianaW 27–022,000
September 29, 1923KalamazooW 74–010,000[34]
October 7, 1923LombardW 14–08,000[35]
October 27, 1923at Georgia TechW 35–720,000[36]
November 3, 1923PurdueW 34–720,000[37]
November 17, 1923ButlerW 34–710,000[38]
October 4, 1924LombardW 40–08,000
October 11, 1924WabashW 34–010,000
November 1, 1924Georgia TechW 34–322,000
November 15, 1924NebraskaW 34–622,000
September 26, 1925BaylorW 41–013,000[39]
October 3, 1925LombardW 69–010,000[40]
October 10, 1925BeloitW 19–3> 6,000[41]
November 14, 1925Carnegie TechW 26–026,000[42]
November 21, 1925NorthwesternW 13–1032,000[43]
October 2, 1926BeloitW 77–08,000
October 16, 1926Penn StateW 28–018,000
October 30, 1926Georgia TechW 12–011,000
November 6, 1926IndianaW 26–020,000
November 20, 1926DrakeW 21–020,000
October 1, 1927CoeW 28–710,000[44]
October 29, 1927Georgia TechW 26–717,000[45]
November 5, 1927MinnesotaT 7–725,000[46]
September 29, 1928Loyola (LA)W 12–615,000
October 27, 1928DrakeW 32–612,000
November 17, 1928Carnegie TechL 7–2727,000

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