Lehigh at Brown

Saturday, October 24, 1896

Brown beat Lehigh 16–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, Brown led the series 2–⁠0.

AwayLehigh2–⁠5 in 1896
0
HomeBrown4–⁠5–⁠1 in 1896
16

FinalHigh 58°F, low 40°FAttendance 300

In the newspapers

  • The The San Francisco call's story: GAMES ON THE GRIDIRoN. Yale Men Easily Vamqaish the Carlisle School Indians.

    The San Francisco call, California, October 25, 1896, page 4 (results column)

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    GAMES ON THE GRIDIRoN. Yale Men Easily Vamqaish the Carlisle School Indians. SchOOt IuQfdnS. NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 24.-The score of the football game between the Carlisle School Indians and the Yale eleven at Manhattan Field to-day was II 10 in favor of Yale. AMHERST, MASS, Oct. 24.-Amherst found the eleven of Worcester Technology lamen.ably weak to-day, and had little trouble in making touchdowns and win ming by a score of 40 to 0. WILLIAMSON, MASS, Oct. 24.-Williams played the best game of the season against Bowdoin this afternoon and won by % TO O. SWARTMORE, Pa, Oct. 24-Rutgers H, Swartmore 10. PRINCETON, N. J., Oct “a. = The Prlncetons won easily from Pennsylvania College football team to-day by score PROVIDENCE, R. l., Oct. A.-Brown had not the least trouble in defeating Lehigh 16 to 0 to-day. The first half was slow. ITHACA, N. Y, Oct. 24-In to-day’s football with Cornell, Harvard came off game was very closely contested and Harvard had to put her best efforts for ward to win. LEXINGTON, KY. Oct. 24.-Football: !: Military Institute II Washington and Lee University O. WEST POINT. N. Y, Oct. 24-The game of football this afternoon between the West Point cadets and the team from Union College was a very Indifferent one and wholly one-sided throughout. Score: West Point A, Union 0. PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Oct. M.-In the presence of 1900 people Lafayette low cred the pride of Pennsy ylyania this after noon by thrashing the Quakers at football by the score OF to 4. The defeat, which is the first the University of Pennsylvania has met with since it was defeated by Harvard three years ago, came with crushing humiliation from its total unexpectedness and at the hands of college that is not considered in the same class athletically as the big Philadelphia uni versity.

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story: OAK GROVE Foot Ball.

    Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 26, 1896, page 1 (results column)

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    OAK GROVE Foot Ball. At Ithaca-Harvard, IS; Cornell, 4. At Providence-Brown. 16; Lehigh. 0. AT Boston-Harvard ’97, IS; English High. o. At Amherst-Amherst. 40; Worcester Tech, o. AT Hebron – Hebron, 20: Nichols latin, 4. AT West Point West Point, A. Union. 0. At Southboro-Harvard 80. Is; st. Marks, 0. AT Lowell-Harvard ’9S, IA Lowell \. A. A. O. At Acknowledgements, 6: Penn iylvania, 4. At Sanford-Somerswo High. 80; Sanford. O.. At ambridge-Harvard Freshmen. =. Exeter. 0. At Worcester-Boston University. 0; Holy Cross, 0. AT Medford-Medford, g. Medford High Alumni. 4. At Boston-Boston Athletics, u; Orange Athletes, 0. At Princeton-Princeton SO: Pennsylyania State College. 0. At New York-Yale, IL: Carlisle school Indians. g. (Referee Hickok made an error which he acknowledged afterwards, robbing Indians of a draw gnme)

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)

Brown 81% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Brown leads 7–⁠1 in eight meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1954Brown 34, Lehigh 6
1949Brown 48, Lehigh 0
1931Brown 33, Lehigh 0
1926Brown 32, Lehigh 0
1923Lehigh 12, Brown 6
1922Brown 6, Lehigh 2

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