Lehigh at Rutgers

Saturday, October 8, 1921

Lehigh beat Rutgers 7–⁠0. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Lehigh led the series 16–⁠2.

AwayLehigh4–⁠4 in 1921
7
HomeRutgers4–⁠5 in 1921
0

FinalHigh 70°F, low 46°F, 0.09 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The New York herald's story: RUTGERS BOWS TO LEHIGH BY I TO 0 Losers Outrush Rivals, but Fail to Sustain Attack-Lateral Pass Wins.

    The New York herald, New York, October 9, 1921, page 49

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    RUTGERS BOWS TO LEHIGH BY I TO 0 Losers Outrush Rivals, but Fail to Sustain Attack-Lateral Pass Wins. Special Despatch to TIE New YoRK HERALD. NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j.. Oct S.--A single fash OF strong. offensive football. backed up by an almost unpierceable defence. won for Lehigh here to-day by a score Of TO over a Rutgers team which appeared TO have better attack. but could not make its gains corsecutively. Landing the ball on Rutgers 80 yard line in the third period after a poor punt by Sulnmerill, q fifteen yard run by Grier and two penalties put the ball on the home teams IA yard line. HencheT then uncorked u lateral pass to Grier. who tore free and went over for touch down.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Rutgers 71% to win. Lehigh pulled the upset.

Lehigh leads 27–⁠24 in 51 meetings, counting the 33 since this game.

Recent meetings
1977Rutgers 20, Lehigh 0
1976Rutgers 28, Lehigh 21
1975Lehigh 34, Rutgers 20
1974Rutgers 37, Lehigh 16
1973Rutgers 31, Lehigh 13
1972Rutgers 41, Lehigh 13

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