Lehigh at Pennsylvania
Saturday, September 30, 1899 Share
Pennsylvania beat Lehigh 20–0. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 18–2.
Final
In the newspapers

Omaha daily bee, October 1, 1899, page 8
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Lehigh–Pennsylvania gamePennsylvania leads 45–12 in 57 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.
| 2026 | Lehigh 20, Pennsylvania 7 | |
| 2025 | Lehigh 44, Pennsylvania 30 | |
| 2021 | Pennsylvania 20, Lehigh 0 | |
| 2018 | Pennsylvania 30, Lehigh 10 | |
| 2017 | Pennsylvania 65, Lehigh 47 | |
| 2016 | Lehigh 49, Pennsylvania 28 |
Around this game
Lehigh
- Next gamevs. RutgersOct. 7, 1899
- SeasonLehigh in 1899
- ProgramLehigh history and records
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. BucknellOct. 4, 1899
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1899
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records

