1897 Lehigh football team

1897 Lehigh football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–7
Head coach	Samuel M. Hammond (1st season)
Seasons ←  1896 1898  →

1897 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					15	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					10	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	2
Buffalo			–					9	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	1
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	0	–	2
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	1
Drexel			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	1
Dickinson			–					7	–	3	–	2
Swarthmore			–					7	–	3	–	2
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					3	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	3	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					4	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan			–					6	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	5	–	2
Villanova			–					3	–	5	–	1
Penn State			–					3	–	6	–	0
Amherst			–					2	–	6	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	2
Lehigh			–					3	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	3	–	0

The 1897 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Samuel M. Hammond, the team compiled a 3–7 record and was outscored by a total of 261 to 84. ^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2		at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–43		[2]
October 6		Williams	Bethlehem, PA	W 5–0
October 9	3:07 p.m.	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–58	4,000	[3]
October 20		Dickinson	Bethlehem, PA	W 5–0
October 23		vs. Bucknell	Williamsport, PA	L 20–28	1,500	[4] [5]
October 30		at Lafayette	March Field Easton, PA (rivalry)	L 0–34
November 6		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 6–48
November 13		NYU	Bethlehem, PA	W 42–0		[6]
November 20		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 6–28
November 25		Lafayette	Bethlehem, PA	L 0–22

References

1. "1897 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
2. "The Champion Princeton Team Opens the Season with an Easy Victory Over Lehigh: Tigers Scored 43 to 0". The New York Times. October 3, 1897. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Penn Scores Heavily On Weak Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 10, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved March 22, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
4. "Lehigh Given A Surprise". The Wilkes-Barre Record . Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. October 25, 1897. p. 3. Retrieved January 18, 2025– via Newspapers.com .
5. "Bucknell Defeats Lehigh". Lewisburg Chronicle. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. October 30, 1897. p. 1. Retrieved January 18, 2025– via Newspapers.com .
6. "Lehigh's big score". The Sun. November 14, 1897. Retrieved February 7, 2021– via Newspapers.com.