1896 Lehigh football team

1896 Lehigh football
Conference	Independent
Record	2–5
Head coach	L. N. Morris (1st season)
Seasons ←  1895 1897  →

1896 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Fordham			–					1	–	0	–	0
Lafayette			–					11	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					14	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					11	–	2	–	0
Buffalo			–					9	–	1	–	2
Villanova			–					10	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					7	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					5	–	3	–	0
Storrs			–					5	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Rutgers			–					6	–	6	–	0
Carlisle			–					5	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					2	–	2	–	2
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan			–					4	–	5	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	5	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	4	–	2
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	4	–	0
Colgate			–					3	–	4	–	1
Amherst			–					3	–	6	–	1
Western Univ. Penn.			–					3	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					2	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	6	–	1
Swarthmore			–					2	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					1	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					1	–	5	–	0
Massachusetts			–					0	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island			–					0	–	4	–	0

The 1896 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach L. N. Morris, the team compiled a 2–5 record and was outscored by a total of 130 to 80. ^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 10	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ	L 0–16		[2]
October 14	Rutgers	South Bethlehem, PA	W 44–0		[3]
October 17	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–34
October 24	at Brown	Providence, RI	L 0–16	300	[4]
October 31	vs. Michigan	Detroit Athletic Club Detroit, MI	L 0–40	2,000–3,000	[5] [6]
November 7	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 10–24
November 14	Maryland Athletic Club	Bethlehem, PA	W 26–0

References

1. "1896 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
2. "Princeton, 16; Lehigh, 0". The Philadelphia Times. October 11, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Lehigh, 44; Rutgers, 0". The Times . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 15, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved August 10, 2024– via Newspapers.com .
4. "Fought Like Tigers". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 25, 1896. p. 2. Retrieved March 10, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
5. "Won the Eastern Game: Lehigh Failed to Score on the Men from Michigan". The U. of M. Daily. November 2, 1896. p. 1 – via Bentley Historical Library.
6. "Won It Easily: Michigan Had No Trouble with the Lehigh Players". Detroit Free Press. November 1, 1896. pp. 6–7 – via Newspapers.com.