• on November 3, 2007, Navy beat Notre Dame after losing for 43 consecutive years, ending college football's longest bilateral streak?

Facts on topics related to 2007 Navy vs. Notre Dame football game

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

• American football tackle J.D. Maarleveld survived Hodgkin's lymphoma but was cut from the Notre Dame team anyway, transferred to Maryland, and became a consensus first-team All-American?
• George Malley, whose St. Ignatius High School football team was once compared to Notre Dame under Knute Rockne, resigned from the University of San Francisco with a losing record?
• Wes Schulmerich turned down an offer to play football for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame, later becoming a Major League Baseball player?
• despite not playing as a high school junior in 1999, American football cornerback Brock Williams still led Notre Dame defenders in playing time in 2000?
• the Wabash College Little Giants were the only football team to defeat Notre Dame at home during a period of 29 years and 125 games?

George Gipp

• Frim Frimodig played high school football with The Gipper and held Michigan State's single-game basketball scoring record for 35 years?