1918 Lehigh Brown and White football team

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1918 Lehigh Brown and White football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4
Head coach
Home stadium Taylor Stadium
Seasons
  1917
1919  
1918 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell   6 0 0
Princeton   3 0 0
Holy Cross   2 0 0
Army   1 0 0
Buffalo   6 1 0
Columbia   5 1 0
Syracuse   5 1 0
Pittsburgh   4 1 0
Boston College   5 2 0
Rutgers   5 2 0
Franklin & Marshall   2 1 0
Geneva   4 2 0
Swarthmore   4 2 0
Harvard   2 1 0
Fordham   4 2 1
Villanova   3 2 0
Penn   5 3 0
Dartmouth   3 3 0
Lehigh   4 4 0
Washington & Jefferson   2 2 0
New Hampshire   2 2 1
Lafayette   3 4 0
Brown   2 3 0
Tufts   2 3 0
Penn State   1 2 1
Vermont   0 1 1
Drexel   0 1 0
NYU   0 4 0

The 1918 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1918 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Tom Keady, the team compiled a 4–4. [1] Lehigh played home games at Taylor Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 12 League Island Marines W 6–0 [2]
October 19 Quantico Marines
  • Taylor Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
W 6–0
October 26at Rutgers
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
L 0–39 [3]
November 2League Island MarinesL 3–14 [4] [5]
November 10at Muhlenberg
  • Taylor Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
W 54–0 [6]
November 16 Penn State
  • Taylor Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
L 6–7
November 23at Lafayette
W 17–0
November 28Army Ambulance Corps
  • Taylor Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
L 0–12

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References

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