Lehigh at Princeton

Saturday, October 8, 1927

Princeton beat Lehigh 42–⁠0. It was their 30th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 28–⁠0–⁠2.

AwayLehigh0–⁠2 in 1927
0
HomePrinceton6–⁠1 in 1927
42

FinalHigh 74°F, low 55°F, 0.43 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: PRINCETON SMOTHERS LEHIGH ELEVEN, 42.0

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1927, page 1

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    PRINCETON SMOTHERS LEHIGH ELEVEN, 42.0 BY the Associated Press PRINCETON. October S.-Prince. tons revamped backfield today dis played a powerful drive against LIE. high and rolled up AZ points while the Pennsylvania eleven was unable to score. The Roper team used nothing but straight foot ball The Lehigh team was unable to stop the line smashes directed against it. with Wittmer and Norman carving the brunt of the work. LAWYER, left end for the Tigers. blocked a Lchigh punt in the third period and ran Is yards to a touch down. The Lehigh team could make little Roadway against the Princeton line and made but 3 first downs as com. pared to the Tigers 81.

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)

Princeton 93% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Princeton leads 40–⁠10–⁠2 in 52 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Lehigh 35, Princeton 20
2022Princeton 29, Lehigh 17
2021Princeton 32, Lehigh 0
2018Princeton 66, Lehigh 7
2016Lehigh 42, Princeton 28
2015Princeton 52, Lehigh 26

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