1894 Lehigh football team

1894 Lehigh football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–9
Head coach	Pudge Heffelfinger (1st season)
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1894 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					16	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	0	–	0
Villanova			–					1	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					11	–	2	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Holy Ghost College			–					7	–	2	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					10	–	5	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					2	–	1	–	1
Army			–					3	–	2	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	4	–	1
Amherst			–					7	–	5	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					4	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	5	–	0
Massachusetts			–					3	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					5	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn			–					1	–	1	–	0
Lafayette			–					5	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	9	–	0
Williams			–					1	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					1	–	3	–	0
MIT			–					1	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					1	–	6	–	0
Carlisle			–					1	–	8	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	2	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	3	–	0
Wesleyan			–					0	–	5	–	0

The 1894 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Pudge Heffelfinger, the team compiled a 5–9 record and was outscored by a total of 242 to 120. ^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Rutgers	South Bethlehem, PA	W 24–0		[2]
October 6	Princeton	South Bethlehem, PA	L 0–8		[3]
October 10	Swarthmore	South Bethlehem, PA	W 33–0
October 13	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–34		[4]
October 17	at Penn	Philadelphia, PA	L 0–30
October 20	Carlisle	South Bethlehem, PA	W 22–12		[5]
October 24	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ	L 0–32	900	[6]
October 27	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval East Orange, NJ	L 0–14	1,200–1,500	[7]
October 31	North Carolina	South Bethlehem, PA	W 24–6		[8]
November 3	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 0–10	2,000	[9]
November 10	vs. Yale	Polo Grounds New York, NY	L 0–50		[10]
November 14	at Lafayette	Easton, PA (rivalry)	L 0–28
November 24	Lafayette	South Bethlehem, PA	W 11–8
November 29	at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY	L 6–10

References

1. "1894 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
2. "Lehigh, 24; Rutgers, 0". New York Tribune. September 30, 1894. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Princeton 8, Lehigh 0". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1894. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Yale Walks Over Lehigh". The Philadelphia Times. October 14, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Lehigh Meets A Surprise". The Times . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 21, 1894. p. 9. Retrieved November 7, 2024– via Newspapers.com .
6. "Princeton 32, Lehigh 0". The Boston Globe. October 25, 1894. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Orange, 14; Lehigh, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 28, 1894. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Lehigh, 24; North Carolina, 6". The Philadelphia Times . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 1, 1894. p. 10. Retrieved November 18, 2024– via Newspapers.com .
9. "Naval Academy, 10; Lehigh University, 0". The Sun. New York. November 4, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Yale's Heavy Scoring: With Many Substitutions She Rolls Up Fifty Points on Lehigh". The Philadelphia Times. November 11, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.