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The Ku Klux Klan, then at the height of its Indiana power under Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson, announced a mass meeting and parade in South Bend, the county seat and the heart of Indiana Catholicism; Mayor Eli Seebirt refused a parade permit though he could not bar a peaceful assembly; Notre Dame's President Walsh implored his students to stay on campus; and from the morning, when robed klansmen appeared on downtown street corners to direct their brethren to Island Park, students and townspeople unmasked them, chased them to the Klan headquarters at Michigan and Wayne, and smashed its illuminated cross with potatoes taken from the grocery below. By 11:30 a.m. the business district had been cleared of the Klan. The confrontation ran, in its aftershocks, through May 19. No part of that day happened on Osceola or Penn Township ground, and no unrest-as-event day of any date — no Klan appearance, no riot, no curfew — is recorded on this ground in any source reached.
Sources: Notre Dame News and Notre Dame Magazine accounts of the May 17–19, 1924 clash (Tribune reporting quoted therein); Todd Tucker, Notre Dame vs. the Klan (2004), as carried in those accounts. This build's Crime & Public Safety — no Klan, riot or curfew record on this ground in any fragment.