1965 season
68th season of men's interhall football, 6th season of Mod Interhall
Season Summary
League Director: Dominic Napolitano
Duration of season:
Total teams: 12
Games scheduled: 19
Interhall champion: UNKNOWN, Farley-Stanford (3-0) or Howard-St. Edward's (1-0-2)
Unknown games: 2
Season schedule
Interhall championship
The 1965 interhall football championship game was played between the Farley-Stanford and Howard-St. Edward's teams. Farley-Stanford entered as the champion of their division with a 3–0 record, while Howard-St. Edward's won their division and held a 1–0–2 record. The 1965 game was the second consecutive championship to be left unrecorded in all Notre Dame publications. Player Richard Havel gave credible evidence of a Farley-Stanford victory, including the notion that he had received a championship jacket for that year.
Talking Points
Preseason
A second Off-Campus team is employed in the interhall football league for the first time since 1930.
Regular season
Ratings on the top five interhall football teams is published weekly.
Postseason
Most of the 19 games in the 1965 season were recorded by the Scholastic. There are only two games that were unknown in print, a regular season contest between Dillon and Morrissey-Sorin-St. Edward's, and the aforementioned championship game.
Miscellaneous
The "Ink Bowl", a touch football game, was played between the writers of two of Notre Dame's leading publications, The Voice and the Notre Dame Scholastic. It was played 3:00 p.m. on November 18 on the field behind the Stepan Center. The VOICE and the Scholastic Touch Athletic Team (STATE) were the two team names. The writers made sure to make note of the attendance, a grand total of two people. The Voice scored first with just under a minute remaining in the first half when quarterback Bill Dwyer completed a short pass to Bob Schuemble, who evaded two STATE defenders en route to a 50-yard touchdown. Schuemble scored again in the second half before another Voice touchdown sealed the game. The VOICE won 18–0.
Alumni Stories
Bill Dwyre, '66
1965 Notre Dame Voice QB
I have dug deep into my memory and can recall little. I know that I played in some games for the Voice, which was the newspaper we started because, before that, there was only the Scholastic. I was sports editor of that first Voice. Interhall football was a huge deal and since I played quarterback in high school (Sheboygan, Wis., North) I got asked to help out in those games a couple of times. But for which team and what the result was is beyond my memory. I don't think I played in a title game, although I would have been in Howard Hall at that time. My only main memory is the single bar helmets, which were a hand-down from old varsity teams. I always fantasized that mine had been worn by Paul Hornung, and later, during my days in the newspaper business, I told Paul that. He laugh and asked how many times my nose has been broken.
Follow-up:
"I met Hornung many times as part of my job. I was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal, then the L.A. Times for 25 years and a sports columnist at The Times for ten more years. I used to see Paul a lot at the Kentucky Derby, or even occasionally in LA when there was a Breeders' Cup event. He was close to D. Wayne Lukas, who was and is a friend of mine."
Richard Havel, '68
1965 Farley-Stanford player
Your site on Interhall Football is great. Looks like lots of hard work. I regretted to see ND has ended the Interhall Tackle Football. If you still maintaining the site here is some information.
I am a 1968 grad. I was a sophomore in Farley Hall in 1965. I played on the Inter Hall team. We were joined with Stanford Hall. I remember that we won the Championship that year and received jackets for it. I recall only one other member of the team, Bill Kenealy.
Received 9 July 2023