1891 Lehigh football team

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1891 Lehigh football
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1891 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale  – 13 –0 –0
Harvard  – 13 –1 –0
Princeton  – 12 –1 –0
Tufts  – 7 –1 –0
Penn  – 11 –2 –0
Colgate  – 4 –1 –0
Army  – 4 –1 –1
Bucknell  – 6 –2 –1
Navy  – 5 –2 –0
Cornell  – 7 –3 –0
Geneva  – 4 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson  – 4 –2 –0
Lehigh  – 7 –4 –0
Rutgers  – 8 –6 –0
Brown  – 4 –6 –0
Springfield YMCA  – 5 –8 –1
Fordham  – 1 –2 –1
Syracuse  – 4 –7 –0
Massachusetts  – 2 –5 –0
Western Univ. Penn.  – 2 –6 –0
Lafayette  – 2 –9 –1
NYU  – 1 –4 –0
Columbia  – 1 –5 –0
Wesleyan  – 1 –6 –0

The 1891 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1891 college football season. The team compiled a 7–6 record and was outscored by a total of 198 to 174. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 Bucknell Bethlehem, PA W 62–4 [2]
October 3 Penn State Bethlehem, PAW 24–2 [3]
October 8 Princeton Bethlehem, PAL 0–182,000 [4]
October 10 Franklin & Marshall Bethlehem, PAW 22–0
October 14at Princeton Princeton, NJ L 0–30
October 17 Rutgers Bethlehem, PAW 22–01,000 [5]
October 24 Penn Bethlehem, PAL 0–42 [6]
October 31at Yale New Haven, CT L 0–38 [7]
November 4 Lafayette Bethlehem, PA (rivalry)L 4–22
November 7at Cornell Ithaca, NY L 0–241,500 [8]
November 11at Lafayette
W 6–21,500 [9]
November 21at PennPhiladelphia, PAL 0–32 [10]
November 25vs. Lafayette Wilkes-Barre, PA W 16–2 [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "1891 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ "The Tables Turned". The Morning News. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. September 28, 1891. p. 1. Retrieved January 11, 2025– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  3. ↑ "Lehigh Wins Easily: They Walk Away From the Strong State College Eleven". The Times. October 4, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Princeton Defeats Lehigh". The Times. October 9, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "On the Field at Bethlehem". The Times. October 18, 1891. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "'Varsity Boys Beat Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 25, 1891 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Yale Wins From Lehigh". The New York Times. November 1, 1891 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Cornell Defeats Lehigh". The New York Times. November 8, 1891 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Lehigh, 6; Lafayette, 2". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 12, 1891 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Between the Goals: Lehigh Was No Match for Pennsylvania". The Times. November 22, 1892. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Lehigh-Lafayette". The Wilkes-Barre Record. November 26, 1891. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
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