Notre Dame Robotic Football

Fall 2023 First Meeting

Posted on August, 30^th, 2023

The Notre Dame Robotic Football Club is excited to be starting off the 2023-2024 academic year with our first meeting on August 30th at 8pm in Fitz 356! We are looking forward to welcoming new members of any engineering background into our Manufacturing, Pit Crew, Electrical and Code teams. Our sub teams help build and repair the robots that we use to play football against other universities. If you are not interested in building robots, come join our practices on Sunday afternoons and learn how to drive the bots on the field! New members should fill out the form here to join our mailing list.

2023 CRFC Tournament

Posted on August, 30^th, 2023

The 12th annual Robotic Football National Championship Tournament took place on April 1st 2023 at Ohio Northern University and saw Notre Dame take home 2nd place. Competitors in this year's tournament included Valparaiso, The Naval Academy, Ohio Northern, and Notre Dame. You can view the official livestreamed event here.

2022 Fall Combine

Posted on October, 6^th, 2022

The Notre Dame Fall Combine will be an exciting opportunity for all the schools in the conference to test the abilities of their robots. This year’s fall combine will take place on November 12th in Stepan Center. The time of the event is still TBD, but we know the event will be around 2 hours with a lunch social beforehand. Spectators are encouraged! Teams that cannot attend in person will still be able to compete virtually.

Welcome Back ND RFC!

Posted on September, 30^th, 2022

The Notre Dame Robotic Football Club is back and having weekly meetings every Tuesday at 8pm in Basement B in Fitzpatrick Hall. For those of you who are unfamiliar, ND RFC makes robots that compete in 8 vs 8 football. The rules are slightly modified, but we do all of the main aspects of football from tackling to special teams to passing. There are four different groups in the club: Manufacturing, Pit Crew, Electrical and Code, so there is room for people of all different engineering skill sets. Not an engineer? That's okay, you can learn the ropes through the club or just show up to drive practice and help drive the robots using PS4 controls. Looking forward to another great year!

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Hederman Trophy

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Other Teams in Conference

Ohio Northern University

ONU has earned their place in robot football history as one of the first two full teams in the sport, with 2 championship titles.
Valparaiso University

As one of the strongest competitors in the league, Valparaiso has won four titles in the 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2023 seasons.

Trine University

Though Trine does not have many bots yet, the ones they have built so far performed very well at the combine.
University of Mount Union

Mount Union builds some of the strongest robots, winning the weight competition several times.

Calvin University

Calvin performs well at the combine with the use of their unique omni-wheel robots.
Howard Community College

The newest addition to the conference.

The United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy often fields the deadliest and most creative bots.