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1897 Lehigh football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–7
Head coach
Seasons← 18961898 →
1897 Eastern college football independents records
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.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2at PrincetonL 0–43
October 6WilliamsBethlehem, PAW 5–0
October 93:07 p.m.at PennL 0–584,000
October 20DickinsonBethlehem, PAW 5–0
October 23vs. BucknellWilliamsport, PAL 20–281,500
October 30at LafayetteL 0–34
November 6at ArmyL 6–48
November 13NYUBethlehem, PAW 42–0
November 20at NavyL 6–28
November 25LafayetteBethlehem, PAL 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 [REDACTED] .
  4. "Lehigh Given A Surprise". The Wilkes-Barre Record. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. October 25, 1897. p. 3. Retrieved January 18, 2025 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
  5. "Bucknell Defeats Lehigh". Lewisburg Chronicle. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. October 30, 1897. p. 1. Retrieved January 18, 2025 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
  6. "Lehigh's big score". The Sun. November 14, 1897. Retrieved February 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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