2006 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team

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2006 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football
Patriot League co-champion
Conference Patriot League
Record6–5 (5–1 Patriot)
Head coach
Offensive coordinator Trey Brown (1st season)
Captains
  • Julian Austin
  • John Reese
  • Sedale Threatt
Home stadium Goodman Stadium
Seasons
  2005
2007  
2006 Patriot League football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
Lafayette +^  5 1   6 6  
Lehigh +  5 1   6 5  
Holy Cross  4 2   7 4  
Bucknell  3 3   6 5  
Colgate  3 3   4 7  
Fordham  1 5   3 8  
Georgetown  0 6   2 9  
  • + Conference co-champions
  • ^ FCS playoff participant
Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 2006 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 2006 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Lehigh won the Patriot League co-championship but did not qualify for the national playoffs.

In their first year under head coach Andy Coen, the Mountain Hawks compiled a 6–5 record. [1] Julian Austin, John Reese and Sedale Threatt were the team captains. [2]

The Mountain Hawks outscored opponents 299 to 222. Their 5–1 conference record tied for best in the Patriot League standings. [3] Their season-ending loss to archrival Lafayette resulted in the shared title, and ended Lehigh's postseason hopes, as Lafayette was awarded the Patriot League's only berth in the FCS national playoffs.

Lehigh played its home games at Goodman Stadium on the university's Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 2 Albany *L 16–17 1,812 [4]
September 9 at Villanova *W 31–28 9,219 [5]
September 16 Princeton *
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
L 10–14 8,667 [6]
September 30 No. 22 Harvard *
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
L 33–35 10,680 [7]
October 7 at Georgetown W 28–3 [1]
October 14 at Yale *L 20–26 OT 13,236 [8]
October 21 Bucknell
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
W 38–7 10,673 [9]
October 28 at Holy Cross W 28–14 1,428 [10]
November 4 Colgate
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
W 23–15 11,874 [11]
November 11 Fordham
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
W 45–14 8,692 [12]
November 18 at Lafayette L 27–49 15,207 [13]

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