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1897 Lehigh football team

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1897 Lehigh football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–7
Head coach
Seasons
← 1896
1898 →
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.[1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2at PrincetonL 0–43[2]
October 6WilliamsBethlehem, PAW 5–0
October 93:07 p.m.at PennL 0–584,000[3]
October 20DickinsonBethlehem, PAW 5–0
October 23vs. BucknellWilliamsport, PAL 20–28
October 30at Lafayette
L 0–34
November 6at ArmyL 6–48
November 13NYUBethlehem, PAW 42–0[4]
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 Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Lehigh's big score". The Sun. November 14, 1897. Retrieved February 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.