Bucknell at Lehigh

Saturday, October 14, 1899

Bucknell beat Lehigh 5–⁠0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayBucknell6–⁠4 in 1899
5
HomeLehigh2–⁠9 in 1899
0

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The evening herald's story

    The evening herald, Shenandoah, Pa., October 16, 1899, page 3

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    Philadelphia, Oct. 16.-The football game between the Carlisle Indian school and the Pennsylvania university on Saturday was won by the In dians by a score of 16 to 5. The In dians simply outplayed the Quakers in every point of the game. and the victory came to the former because it was deserved. Other football games Saturday were: At New York-Princeton, II; Columbia, 0. At Easton-Lafayette, 81; Rutgers, 0. At Bethlehem .Bucknell, 5; Lehigh, 0.

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)

Bucknell 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Lehigh leads 20–⁠14–⁠2 in 36 meetings, counting the 31 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Lehigh 41, Bucknell 24
2024Bucknell 38, Lehigh 35
2023Lehigh 27, Bucknell 18
2022Bucknell 19, Lehigh 17
2021Lehigh 38, Bucknell 6
2020Bucknell 6, Lehigh 0

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