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1899 Lehigh football
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Seasons
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1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   10 – 0 – 1
Lafayette   –   12 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   7 – 1 – 0
Boston College   –   8 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   8 – 1 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   2 – 0 – 2
Villanova   –   7 – 2 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 2 – 1
Western Univ. of Penn.   –   3 – 1 – 1
Columbia   –   9 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   8 – 3 – 2
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
New Hampshire   –   4 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   5 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   7 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 5 – 0
Syracuse   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 0
Army   –   4 – 5 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 5 – 0
Penn State   –   4 – 6 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 7 – 0
Lehigh   –   2 – 9 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 3 – 0

The 1899 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Samuel Huston Thompson, the team compiled a 2–9 record and was outscored by a total of 144 to 60.[1]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30at Penn
L 0–20
October 7RutgersBethlehem, PAW 10–0[2]
October 14BucknellBethlehem, PAL 0–5
October 21at Cornell
L 0–6
October 28at Princeton
L 0–17
November 1NYUBethlehem, PAW 50–0
November 4at Lafayette
L 0–174,000[3]
November 11Newark Athletic ClubBethlehem, PAL 0–10
November 18at Navy
L 0–24
November 25LafayetteBethlehem, PAL 0–354,000[4]
November 302:30 p.m.vs. Virginia
L 0–104,000[5][6][7][8][9]

References

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  1. ^ "1899 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Lehigh's playing lacked snap". The Times (Philadelphia). October 8, 1899. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Old Rivals on the Gridiron: Lafayette Downed Lehigh in Their Annual Game Yesterday". The Times (Philadelphia). November 5, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Lafayette Laughs: Meets and Defeats Her Old Rival, Lehigh, on the Latter's Own Field". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 26, 1899. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Foot-ball". The Richmond Dispatch. Richmond, Virginia. November 28, 1899. p. 3. Retrieved September 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "The Orange And Blue Waves In Triumph". The Times. Richmond, Virginia. December 1, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved September 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "The Orange And Blue Waves In Triumph (continued)". The Times. Richmond, Virginia. December 1, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved September 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "The Orange And Blue Waves In Triumph (continued)". The Times. Richmond, Virginia. December 1, 1899. p. 3. Retrieved September 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ^ "Lehigh Is Laid Low". Daily Press. Newport News, Virginia. December 1, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved September 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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