Lehigh at Lafayette

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 3, 1901, page 1

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  LEHIGH COULD NOT SCORE. LAFAYETTE RUNS Up HER FIGURES TO % WITHOUT MUCH TROUBLE [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE-1 Easton Penn. Nov. Before crowd of three thousand people the first of the annual football games between Lafayette and Lehigh was played In March Field this afternoon. and resulted. as exuected in an easy victory for the Maroon and White the final score being . TO o. Lehigh made several desperate attempts to score, and once. IN the first half and again in the second half. had the ball on the Lafayette 15-yard line. but lost IT on downs both times. The Lafayette line was much heovier than that of Lehigh. and the visit ors could not do much ground gaining except around the ends In five minutes after the kickofr In tho first half Fullback Cure, after series of line pIunges by Lafayette went over the lire for the touchdown. Lehigh attempted goal from the field in this half The nthe oval her opponents 25-yard line hut the Lafayette forwards blocked the kick and Pritchard got the ball and ran the whole length Of the field n touchdown. The first half ended with n OF q to 0 In favor of LAFAYETTE Thigh took a decided brace in the second half. I’D + yette could score but more touch down In n scrmmage in the first half Pearson Iehigh’s fulback had his collar-bone broken and cash cut in his head. The lineup:

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Officially, Lafayette leads 82–⁠74–⁠5; as played, 46–⁠38–⁠4 in the 88 games on file; the official count covers all 161 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.