Saturday night, undefeated No. 19 Army will face No. 6 Notre Dame in a game that has some pretty significant playoff implications. If Army can upset the Irish, a play-off bid could be in the offing. If Notre Dame defeats the undefeated Black Knights, it will add another signature win to the Fighting Irish’s playoff roster.

As for the location of the match itself, you might be wondering why it’s being played outside of both teams’ home stadiums. And why it’s not in a football stadium at all.

Saturday night’s game kicks off at Yankee Stadium – yes, the ballpark in the Bronx, NY. But the reasoning behind this isn’t that it’s sometimes fun to play football games on baseball fields. The location of the game actually has real, historical significance for this matchup.

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Why is Army-Notre Dame played from Yankee Stadium?

It’s actually for a very special reason. The location of the game is to pay tribute to the 1924 Notre Dame Cathedral that was disturbed over the army 100 years ago. That match took place at the historic Polo Grounds, where several matches were held between these teams. The famous Polo Grounds is just across the Harlem River from where the new Yankee Stadium is:

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Polo Grounds (left) is located across the Harlem River from Yankee Stadium.

The Fighting Irish’s upset that year was led by four of their star players: Jim Crowley, Elmer Layden, Don Miller and quarterback Harry Stuhldreher. The players were nicknamed the “Four Horsemen” by famed sports journalist Grantland Rice. Rice’s words in the New York Herald Tribune are among the most famous in the history of sportswriting:

Silhouetted against a blue, gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again.

In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are just aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators looked down on the stunning panorama that stretched across the green plain below.

ND’s victory over Army was its third straight win to open the 1924 season. The Fighting Irish finished 10-0 that year and defeated Stanford 27-10 in the 1925 Rose Bowl to win a second-ever national championship.

The Polo Grounds consisted of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, which primarily hosted professional baseball and football from 1880 to 1963. The venues were home stadiums for the New York Giants, New York Yankees and New York Mets, among others, during their first two seasons in 1962 and 1963.

Has Army-Notre Dame been played at Yankee Stadium before?

These two last met at Yankee Stadium in 2010, where Notre Dame won 27-3. The game marked the first time the venue had hosted a college football game. Yankee Stadium has since hosted several college football games, including the annual Pinstripe Bowl, which debuted in 2010.

Previously, the two teams met 22 times at the original Yankee Stadium, which is located one block south of the new stadium that opened in 2009. The teams played there every year from 1925-29, again from 1931-46 and once in 1969.

The two have played against each other in several other cities, including South Bend, Ind. West Point, NY and Philadelphia, Penn.

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What is the all-time Notre Dame-Army series record?

Notre Dame has a 39-8-4 all-time record against Army, including the Irish’s current 15-game winning streak dating back to 1965. Here’s a look at Army’s eight wins over Notre Dame:

• 1958: Army 14, ND 2
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• 1944: Army 59, ND 0
• 1931: Army 12, ND 0
• 1927: Army 18, ND 0
• 1925: Army 27, ND 0
• 1916: Army 30, ND 10
• 1914: Army 20, ND 7

Despite being undefeated, Army is a big underdog against Notre Dame. ESPN FPI gives the Black Knights just a 12.3 percent chance of beating the Irish. Given these odds, the Army will try to channel a Four Horseman-sized disruption on Saturday evening.