Cartier Field

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Cartier Athletic Field
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Aerial view of Cartier Field in 1920.
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Cartier Athletic Field
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Cartier Athletic Field
Location in the United States
Location Notre Dame, Indiana United States
Coordinates 41°41′53″N86°14′02″W / 41.698°N 86.234°W / 41.698; -86.234
Owner University of Notre Dame
OperatorUniversity of Notre Dame
Capacity 500? (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.

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An early sketch of Cartier Field, as seen in the October 14, 1899 edition of the Notre Dame Scholastic. Cartier Drawing.jpg
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, 1899 Englewood High School W 29–5600+ [4]
October 23, 1899 Indiana W 17–0800+ [5]
November 4, 1899 Rush Medical W 17–0 [6] [7]
November 30, 1899 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons L 0–52,000 [8] [9]
September 29, 1900Goshen (High School)W 55–0
October 6, 1900 Englewood High School W 68–0
October 13, 1900South Bend Howard Park ClubW 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, 1902at DePauw 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, 1904Toledo Athletic AssociationW 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, 1909at Pittsburgh W 6–0
November 6, 1909at Michigan 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 14–05,000 [30]
October 11, 1919 Mount Union W 60–74,000 [31]
October 25, 1919 Western State W 53–02,500 [32]
November 15, 1919 Michigan Agricultural W 13–05,000 [33]
October 2, 1920 Kalamazoo W 39–05,000
October 9, 1920 Western State W 42–03,500
October 23, 1920 Valparaiso W 28–38,000
November 6, 1920 Purdue W 28–012,000
September 24, 1921 Kalamazoo W 56–08,000
October 1, 1921 DePauw W 57–108,000
October 22, 1921 Nebraska W 7–014,000
November 12, 1921 Haskell W 42–75,000
November 24, 1921 Michigan Agricultural W 48–015,000
September 30, 1922 Kalamazoo W 56–05,000
October 7, 1922 Saint Louis W 26–07,000
October 21, 1922 DePauw W 34–75,000
November 4, 1922 Indiana W 27–022,000
September 29, 1923 Kalamazoo W 74–010,000 [34]
October 7, 1923 Lombard W 14–08,000 [35]
October 27, 1923at Georgia Tech W 35–720,000 [36]
November 3, 1923 Purdue W 34–720,000 [37]
November 17, 1923 Butler W 34–710,000 [38]
October 4, 1924 Lombard W 40–08,000
October 11, 1924 Wabash W 34–010,000
November 1, 1924 Georgia Tech W 34–322,000
November 15, 1924 Nebraska W 34–622,000
September 26, 1925 Baylor W 41–013,000 [39]
October 3, 1925 Lombard W 69–010,000 [40]
October 10, 1925 Beloit W 19–3> 6,000 [41]
November 14, 1925 Carnegie Tech W 26–026,000 [42]
November 21, 1925 Northwestern W 13–1032,000 [43]
October 2, 1926 Beloit W 77–08,000
October 16, 1926 Penn State W 28–018,000
October 30, 1926 Georgia Tech W 12–011,000
November 6, 1926 Indiana W 26–020,000
November 20, 1926 Drake W 21–020,000
October 1, 1927 Coe W 28–710,000 [44]
October 29, 1927 Georgia Tech W 26–717,000 [45]
November 5, 1927 Minnesota T 7–725,000 [46]
September 29, 1928 Loyola (LA) W 12–615,000
October 27, 1928 Drake W 32–612,000
November 17, 1928 Carnegie Tech L 7–2727,000

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