1888 Lehigh football team

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1888 Lehigh football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–2
Head coach
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Seasons
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1888 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale  – 13 –0 –0
Harvard  – 12 –1 –0
Princeton  – 11 –1 –0
Lehigh  – 10 –2 –0
Trinity (CT)  – 5 –1 –1
Lafayette  – 6 –3 –0
Cornell  – 4 –2 –0
Penn  – 9 –7 –0
Bucknell  – 2 –3 –0
Fordham  – 1 –2 –0
Massachusetts  – 2 –4 –0
Wesleyan  – 2 –7 –0
Worcester Tech  – 1 –4 –0
Rutgers  – 1 –6 –1
Penn State  – 0 –2 –1
Swarthmore  – 0 –5 –0

The 1888 Lehigh football team represented Lehigh University in the 1888 college football season. The team finished with an overall record of 10–2.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29at Princeton
L 0–75 [1]
October 6 Swarthmore Swarthmore, PA W 12–8
October 11 Bucknell Bethlehem, PAW 74–0 [2]
October 13 Rutgers Bethlehem, PA W 30–0 [3]
October 17 Haverford Bethlehem, PAW 16–6
October 20SwarthmoreBethlehem, PAW 50–0
October 27 Penn Bethlehem, PAL 0–36
November 3at Penn State
W 30–0
November 10at Stevens Hoboken, NJ W 10–0
November 17at Lafayette
W 6–4
November 27LafayetteBethlehem, PAW 16–0
December 1at Cornell Elmira, NY W 4–0

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References

  1. ↑ "Lehigh Defeated by Princeton: Opening the Football Season with a Game of Seventy-Five to Nothing". New York Daily Tribune. September 30, 1888. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Founder's Day At Lehigh University". New-York Tribune . New York, New York. October 12, 1888. p. 7. Retrieved January 10, 2025– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  3. ↑ "Lehigh University Beats Rutgers". The Times . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 14, 1888. p. 2. Retrieved August 10, 2024– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. ↑ "1888 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". College Football Reference. Retrieved January 21, 2017.


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