Notre Dame won the game over Navy, setting the record for the longest winning streak over an annual collegiate opponent at 33 wins (Notre Dame added 10 additional wins to the streak, which remains the all-time record at 43 consecutive victories). The event, played at Croke Park, drew a slightly smaller crowd than the first Emerald Isle Classic. In 1996, Notre Dame and the United States Naval Academy began a second American football event in Ireland called the Shamrock Classic. It featured a 2–7 Boston College team led by Mark Kamphaus beat the 8–1 Army Black Knights 38–24. The inaugural Emerald Isle Classic was held at Lansdowne Road with a crowd of 42,524 in attendance. College teams with particularly Irish or Catholic background were chosen in an effort to attract Irish nationals to the games. The game was intended as an annual event to attract some of the 40 million Americans of Irish descent back to Ireland. Prendergast, who was a former president of the Irish American Football Association conceived the idea of bringing a major NCAA game to Ireland in the mid-1980s and started pitching the idea on both sides of the Atlantic. The event was first proposed and arranged by Aidan J. The game was played at Lansdowne Road in Dublin, Ireland in the years 19. Dubbed the Emerald Isle Classic, it was the first NCAA-sanctioned American college football game played in Europe. US Ambassador Dan Rooney and Taoiseach Enda Kenny take part in the ceremonial coin toss before the 2012 game at Aviva StadiumĬollege football in Ireland ( Irish: Peil an Choláiste) began initially in 1988 as part of a promotional campaign to mark the Dublin millennium celebrations.
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