Lehigh at Virginia

Saturday, September 28, 1940

Virginia beat Lehigh 32–⁠0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Lehigh led the series 3–⁠2.

AwayLehigh1–⁠2 in 1940
0
HomeVirginia4–⁠5 in 1940
32

FinalHigh 69°F, low 41°FAttendance 10,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Virginia Outclasses Lehigh To Win, 32To0

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, September 29, 1940, page 1

    Read the text

    Virginia Outclasses Lehigh To Win, 32To0 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Sept. 28.-CP-The University of Virgin las promising football squad played under wraps before 5000 spectators here today in downing an outclassed .Lehigh team, so to O.. With Yale coming up next week and such teams as Tennessee and North Carolina also on deck, Virginia’s veteran coach Frank Merrya kept the lid down on his customary hidden ball tricks and had substitutes streaming out from the bench. Virginia’s initial tally came after two minutes of the second period when Leroy Newsletter, triplethreat fullback, lateralled to Bill Dudley who scampered behind nice blocking 81 yards to a touchdown. Dudley’s placement was wide.

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)

Virginia 92% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Virginia leads 6–⁠3 in nine meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
1976Virginia 21, Lehigh 20
1956Virginia 24, Lehigh 12
1954Virginia 27, Lehigh 21
1941Virginia 34, Lehigh 0
1940Virginia 32, Lehigh 0
1909Lehigh 11, Virginia 7

Around this game

Lehigh

Virginia