Navy vs. Notre Dame Returning to Baltimore

The nation’s longest continuous intersectional football rivalry will be renewed next year in Baltimore, the city where the first game between Navy and Notre Dame was played in 1927.

Mayor William Donald Schaefer confirmed that the game would be played in Memorial Stadium on Nov. 1, 1986, and would include a march to the municipally owned facility by the full 4,500-member brigade of midshipmen.

While acknowledging that other cities would be bidding for Navy’s biennial home game in the series Schaefer said he hoped that next year’s game would be “the renewal of long relationships.”

The Navy-Notre game has been played in Baltimore 17 times, the last in 1958 when the Irish won, 40-20. The Middies last played in Baltimore in 1960, beating the Air Force, 35-3.