2009 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team

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2009 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football
Conference Patriot League
Record4–7 (4–2 Patriot)
Head coach
Offensive coordinator Trey Brown (4th season)
Captains
  • B. J. Benning
  • Matt Cohen
Home stadium Goodman Stadium
Seasons
←  2008
2010  →
2009 Patriot League football standings
Conf.Overall
Team W L  W L 
No. 14 Holy Cross $^  5 –1   9 –3  
No. 21 Colgate  4 –2   9 –2  
No. 24 Lafayette  4 –2   8 –3  
Lehigh  4 –2   4 –7  
Fordham  2 –4   5 –6  
Bucknell  2 –4   4 –7  
Georgetown  0 –6   0 –11  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – FCS playoff participant
Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 2009 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Lehigh tied for second in the Patriot League.

In their fourth year under head coach Andy Coen, the Mountain Hawks compiled a 4–7 record. [1] B.J . Benning and Matt Cohen were the team captains. [2]

The Mountain Hawks were outscored 234 to 230. All of their losses, however, were to non-conference opponents, and their 4–2 conference record placed them in a three-way tie with Colgate and Lafayette for second in the Patriot League standings. [3]

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

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 5 Central Connecticut State *
L 21–28 6,140 [4]
September 12 at No. 3 Villanova *
L 17–38 8,811 [5]
September 26 Princeton *
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
L 14–17 8,168 [6]
October 3 Harvard *
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
L 14–28 5,457 [7]
October 10 Georgetown
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
W 27–0 5,789 [8]
October 17 Yale *
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
L 0–7 5,847 [9]
October 24 at Bucknell
W 35–16 2,246 [10]
October 31 at No. 24 Colgate
L 20–27 [1]
November 7 No. 13 Holy Cross
  • Goodman Stadium
  • Bethlehem, PA
L 20–24 9,797 [11]
November 14 at Fordham
W 35–28 [1]
November 21 No. 21 Lafayette
W 27–21 OT 15,714 [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Year-by-Year Results". Lehigh Football Record Book (PDF). Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University. p. 24. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Lehigh Football Captains". Lehigh Football Record Book (PDF). Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University. p. 12. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Football All-Time Year-by-Year Results". Patriot League Football Record Book (PDF). Center Valley, Pa.: Patriot League. 2020. p. 12. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ Groller, Keith (September 6, 2009). "Lehigh Offense Listless in 28-21 Defeat". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pa. p. Sports 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Tatum, Kevin (September 13, 2009). "Whitney and 'Nova Run Over Lehigh, 38-17". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. E3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Groller, Keith (September 27, 2009). "Lehigh Offense Can't Get It Done Against Princeton". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pa. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Groller, Keith (October 4, 2009). "More Gloom at Goodman as Harvard Dumps Lehigh". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pa. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Groller, Keith (October 11, 2009). "Lehigh Shuts Out Georgetown". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pa. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Groller, Keith (October 18, 2009). "Hawks Fall to Yale 7-0, First Shutout Since 1986". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pa. p. Sports 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Lehigh Tames Bison". The Express-Times . Easton, Pa. October 25, 2009. p. C4 – via NewsBank.
  11. ↑ Groller, Keith (November 8, 2009). "Late TD Allows Holy Cross to Escape Lehigh". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pa. p. Sports 5 – via Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "Summaries". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. November 8, 2009. p. C17.
  12. ↑ Reinhard, Paul (November 22, 2009). "An Improbable Overtime Win". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pa. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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