Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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20 NOV. 9, 2024 BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED gained Navy 189 to 130 in total yards. The Midshipmen averaged 8.7 yards per play to the Irish's 8.2. The Irish pos- sessed the ball for 8:16 while the Mid- shipmen had it for 6:44. Items: Horvath scored a 47-yard rushing touchdown … Love also scored a 2-yard rushing touchdown … Navy missed a 40-yard field goal … Yoakam made a 32-yard field goal with 26 sec- onds left in the half. THIRD QUARTER NOTRE DAME 44, NAVY 14 Top moment: Sneed fell on a fum- ble just across the goal line for an Irish touchdown to make it 44-14. Feature performer: Shuler had 4 tackles in the third quarter for an Irish defense that made Navy work for every- thing it got on that side of the ball. Notable Stats: Navy outgained Notre Dame 86-80 in total yards. The Irish av- eraged 11.4 yards per play to the Midship- men's 3.9. The Midshipmen possessed the ball for 11:51 while the Irish had it for 3:09. Items: The Irish only ran 7 offensive plays, and Navy ran 22 … Navy had a 12- play, 75-yard drive that took 6:16 off the clock to start the quarter … Leonard con- nected with Collins for a 37-yard touch- down … Navy fumbled a kickoff out of bounds inside its own 5 before Sneed fell on another fumble for his touchdown … Graduate student placekicker Eric Goins missed the ensuing extra point. FOURTH QUARTER NOTRE DAME 51, NAVY 14 Top moment: Freshman running back Kedren Young scored his first ca- reer touchdown from 4 yards out to put the Irish over 50 points. Feature performer: Young rushed 10 times for 52 yards with the Irish run- ning the clock out in a blowout. Notable Stats: Notre Dame out- gained Navy 84 to 25 in total yards. The Irish averaged 5.3 yards per play to the Midshipmen's 2.8. The Irish possessed the ball for 9:56 while the Midshipmen had it for 5:04. Items: Freshman corner Leonard Moore came away with his first career interception in the end zone … Junior quarterback Steve Angeli came in to re- lieve Leonard of his duties for the entire quarter; he completed 2 of 4 pass at- tempts for 23 yards. ✦ ND Navy FIRST QUARTER ND Leonard 1-yard run (Yoakam kick) 10:28 7 0 Drive: 9 plays, 75 yards, 4:32 ND Mitchell 6-yard pass from Leonard (Yoakam kick) 5:44 14 0 Drive: 3 plays, 7 yards, 1:19 SECOND QUARTER Navy Horvath 47-yard run (Kirkwood kick) 13:33 14 7 Drive: 5 plays, 80 yards, 2:18 ND Love 64-yard run (Yoakam kick) 12:28 21 7 Drive: 3 plays, 75 yards, 1:05 ND Love 2-yard run (Yoakam kick) 5:05 28 7 Drive: 9 plays, 40 yards, 4:57 ND Yoakam 32-yard field goal 0:26 31 7 Drive: 9 plays, 63 yards, 1:20 THIRD QUARTER Navy Heidenreich 1-yard run (Kirkwood kick) 8:44 31 14 Drive: 12 plays, 75 yards, 6:16 ND Collins 37-yard pass from Leonard (Yoakam kick) 5:35 38 14 Drive: 7 plays, 75 yards, 2:57 ND Sneed fumble recovery in the end zone (Goins kick missed) 1:17 44 14 FOURTH QUARTER ND Young 4-yard run (Yoakam kick) 7:08 51 14 Drive: 4 plays, 16 yards, 2:12 ND Navy Total First Downs 20 17 Rushing 11 10 Passing 8 4 Penalty 1 3 Rushing Attempts 40 43 Yards Gained Rushing 271 241 Yards Lost Rushing 6 19 Net Yards Rushing 265 222 Net Yards Passing 201 88 Passes Attempted 25 14 Passes Completed 15 7 Had Intercepted 0 1 Percent Completion 60.0% 50.0% Yards Per Attempt 8.0 6.3 Yards Per Completion 13.4 12.6 Total Offensive Plays, 65 57 Total Net Yards 466 310 Average Gain Per Play 7.2 5.4 Fumbles: No.-Lost 0-0 7-5 Penalties: No.-Yards 9-80 5-40 Punts: No.-Yards 2-90 2-120 Average Per Punt 45.0 60.0 Average Net Punt 44.5 40.0 Punt Returns: No.-Yards 0-0 2-1 Kickoff Returns: No.-Yards 1-16 4-43 Interception Returns: No.-Yards 1-0 0-0 Fumble Returns: No.-Yards 2-28 0-0 Miscellaneous Yards 0 0 Possession Time 30:29 29:31 Third-Down Conversions 8-13 4-11 Percentage 61.5% 36.4% Fourth-Down Conversions 1-1 2-3 Percentage 100.0% 66.7% Sacks By: No.-Yards 0-0 1-5 Love tallied a career-high 64-yard touchdown run and finished the game with 102 yards and 2 scores on 12 carries. PHOTO BY BILL STREICHER NOTRE DAME 51, NAVY 14 Oct. 26, 2024 ✦ Attendance: 76,112 MetLife Stadium ✦ East Rutherford, N.J. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final Notre Dame 14 17 13 7 51 Navy 0 7 7 0 14