Bucknell at Lehigh
Saturday, October 14, 1899 Share
Bucknell beat Lehigh 5–0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–2–1.
Final
In the newspapers

The evening herald, Shenandoah, Pa., October 16, 1899, page 3
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Bucknell–Lehigh gameLehigh leads 20–14–2 in 36 meetings, counting the 31 since this game.
| 2025 | Lehigh 41, Bucknell 24 | |
| 2024 | Bucknell 38, Lehigh 35 | |
| 2023 | Lehigh 27, Bucknell 18 | |
| 2022 | Bucknell 19, Lehigh 17 | |
| 2021 | Lehigh 38, Bucknell 6 | |
| 2020 | Bucknell 6, Lehigh 0 |
Around this game
Bucknell
- Next gameat Duquesne A.C.Oct. 21, 1899
- SeasonBucknell in 1899
- ProgramBucknell history and records
Lehigh
- Next gameat CornellOct. 21, 1899
- SeasonLehigh in 1899
- ProgramLehigh history and records

