Lehigh at Lafayette

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  The sun, New York, November 24, 1918, page 1

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  .LEHIGH DEFEATS LAFAYETTE BY ITO First Half Is ScOreless, but Booth Enlivens Last Periods by Brilliant Plays. BETHLEHEM. Pa. Nov. o3.--Lehigh defeated Lafayette to-day In their annual ella ssic. II to o. The first half went scoreless. In the third period Dowd snaked his way forty yards for the first score. Booth kicking the goal. Shortly afteSward Lehigh was compelled to punt on her 10 yard line. Booth broke through and blocked the kick. falling on the ball. From there SavariI was pushed over. Booth again kicked goal. In tho closing minutes OF the game Nolan the Lehigh quarterback. dropped over a pretty field goal from the 81 yard line. Lafayette played stift game in the first half, holding Lehigh three times within the yard line.

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  New Britain herald, November 25, 1918, page 8 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES Following the the Saturday football scores among the major teams com peting : Brown 28; Dartm outh O. Harvard 16; Boston College G. Great Lakes 2; Navy 6. Camp Devens 20; Garden City Avi ators o. Princeton Aviators 29; Naval Radio 0. University of Pittsburg 32; Georgia Tech o. University of Maine 20; New Hamp- shire State 0. Holy Cross 21; Tufts ‘. Columbia 12; New York Univ. 0. Lehigh 17; Lafayette 0. University of Pennsylvania, IS: Swarthmore 7.

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Officially, Lafayette leads 82–⁠74–⁠5; as played, 46–⁠38–⁠4 in the 88 games on file; the official count covers all 161 meetings, counting the 36 since this game.