Carnegie Institute of Technology - Athletics

Athletics

In 1926, Carnegie Tech's football team beat Knute Rockne's Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The game was ranked the fourth greatest upset in college football history by ESPN.

The expense of the modern game soon became too much for smaller institutions to maintain. Smaller programs, such as Carnegie Tech, found themselves in a position of having to downgrade to survive. Some also believed that maintaining a top football program was not in line with a top academic institution.