Lehigh at Pennsylvania

Saturday, September 30, 1899

Pennsylvania beat Lehigh 20–⁠0. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 18–⁠2.

AwayLehigh2–⁠9 in 1899
0
HomePennsylvania8–⁠3–⁠2 in 1899
20

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Omaha daily bee's story: Lchiph Defeated.

    Omaha daily bee, October 1, 1899, page 8

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    Lchiph Defeated. PHILADELPHIA, Sept 3O.-The Univers.ty of Pennsylvania foot ball team today defeated Lehigh university on Franklin field 20 TO 0. The halves lasted twenty minutes The game was rather slow and uninteresting

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)

Pennsylvania 96% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Pennsylvania leads 45–⁠12 in 57 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Lehigh 20, Pennsylvania 7
2025Lehigh 44, Pennsylvania 30
2021Pennsylvania 20, Lehigh 0
2018Pennsylvania 30, Lehigh 10
2017Pennsylvania 65, Lehigh 47
2016Lehigh 49, Pennsylvania 28

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