Notre Dame is playing Navy today as they have  every year since 1927. My aunt Anna Rapp gives it a mention in her 1941 diary when she was almost 18:

Saturday   Dear Diary, Up at 8:00, ate. Did dishes. Went uptown and bought groceries. Ate dinner (that is what they called lunch), Washed my clothes (No automatic washers at that time, so most likely by hand.) I mopped the kitchen floor . Listened to Navy Vs. Notre Dame game.  Heard Glenn Miller.  Oh Darn! Is he swell. After supper Arrys, Rosies and we wentto Warsaw. Saw" Ladies in Retirement"...Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, and Evelyn Keys...Good! Ate at Liberty.
 (I well remember the Liberty Cafe on Center street...famous for their Manhattan sandwich.)