GREEN POND - Four turnovers helped to sink Northwestern in its season opener at Notre Dame on Friday night. The Crusaders took advantage of those turnovers to stage a 30-19 upset of the Tigers.

Senior quarterback Tre Jordan threw for 160 yards and Mitch Daniel rushed for 93 yards on the night. Jordan also added 63 yards rushing and scored three rushing touchdowns for Notre Dame, which snapped a 10-game losing skid with the win.The key play came when Northwestern's Harry Hall rumbled down the sideline for a 45-yard gain, only to be caught by senior Aaron Weller, who stripped the ball, which was recovered by Daniel in the end zone. Hall, who rushed for over 1,800 yards last season, carried the ball 32 times for 182 yards and two touchdowns on the night. Hall would also fumble the ball on his next carry to open the next drive by Northwestern, with Notre Dame again coming up with the ball."It was back-and-forth in the first half, we were fighting field position. For our offense to be successful, we have to play ahead of the chains and we had a couple of negative plays on first down, one was my fault, on the delay," said head coach Josh Snyder. "We were fighting from behind and we finally got a play that we liked to go up. Plays like that [Hall's fumble] happen, it was our best guy and we're not used to seeing that and he'll learn from it."Dylan Snyder made his first start at quarterback for Northwestern and finished the night 2-for-7 with 30 yards passing and one interception. Snyder adds the dimension of a running quarterback to the offense and he rushed for 51 yards and a touchdown on eight carries on the night."I thought it was a learning process for Dylan Snyder. I thought we had a couple plays and we just didn't connect. Dylan will get better, he's only had 20 practices as a quarterback and he's tough as nails." said Snyder. "We're successful when we can run the football and then play off of that."While Northwestern struggled to hang onto the ball, Notre Dame turned it over just once on an interception by Trevor Cunningham on the first drive of the game. The Crusaders had driven to the Tigers 16-yard line when Cunningham pulled in a pass intended for Nick Basenese near the goal line to stop the drive.ONE TEAM ... Notre Dame coach Chuck Muller praised his players for coming together as one team after a number of players from Pius X High School, which closed after last school year, transferred to Notre Dame this season.GROWING PAINS ... Snyder and new center Andrew Sorensen had two bad exchanges that resulted in big losses for Northwestern. It was a problem that plagued the pair in their scrimmage and came back to haunt them against Notre Dame. Sorensen has moved into the center position for his senior season.BAD BOYS ... Of the 85 yards that the Crusaders were penalized for in the game, 52 of those yards were charged to the offense.