1889 Lehigh football team

1889 Lehigh football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–3–2
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Seasons
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1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   15 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   9 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 1 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   4 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   8 – 3 – 2
Cornell   –   8 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 6 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 2 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 0
Delaware   –   1 – 1 – 1
Wesleyan   –   5 – 7 – 1
Bucknell   –   2 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   3 – 4 – 2
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 2
Fordham   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1889 Lehigh football team represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1889 college football season. The team finished with an overall record of 8–3–2.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 52:40 p.m.at PrincetonPrinceton, NJL 0–16[1][2]
October 10PrincetonBethlehem, PAL 4–16[3]
October 163:30 p.m.Haverford
W 60–0[4][5]
October 193:15 p.m.at Penn
L 4–6[6]
October 30Lafayette
W 16–10[7]
November 2at Columbia
W 51–61,500[8][9]
November 11Penn StateSouth Bethlehem, PAW 106–0[10]
November 16at Lafayette
T 6–62,000[11]
November 20PennBethlehem, PAW 8–0[12]
November 22vs. Wesleyan
T 11–11[13]
November 2810:45 a.m.at NavyAnnapolis, MDW 26–6[14]
November 293:38 p.m.vs. Johns Hopkins
W 40–01,000[15]
December 1at Virginia
W 26–12[16]

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References

  1. ^ "Princeton's Opening Day". The Philadelphia Times. October 6, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "All on Princeton's Side". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Foot-ball At Bethlehem". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Foot Ball at Lehigh To-day". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 16, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Lehigh Has An Easy Time". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Kicking Out A Victory". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Foot Ball at Lehigh". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Columbia Defeated by Lehigh". The Sun. New York, New York. November 3, 1889. p. 17. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ^ "Lehigh Defeats Columbia". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 3, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "Football". The Sun. New York, New York. November 12, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "Lafayette, 6; Lehigh, 6". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ^ "Turf And Track Sports—Lehigh Gives The University A Lesson In Foot-ball". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 21, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ^ "A Tie Game". The Meriden Daily Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. November 23, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ^ "Lehigh Vs. Naval Academy". The Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. November 29, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ "Lehigh Kept The Lead". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. November 30, 1889. p. 7. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ^ "Football in Virginia". Chattanooga Daily Times. Chattanooga, Tennessee. December 2, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved June 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. ^ "1889 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". College Football Reference. Retrieved May 9, 2017.


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