Lehigh at Navy
Wednesday, October 15, 1902 Share
Lehigh and Navy tied 5–5. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Navy led the series 7–4–1.
Final
In the newspapers

The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], October 19, 1902, page 1
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TIE AT ANNAPOLIS. Naval Academy and Lehigh Quit with the Score 3 to 5. ANNAPOLIS. Nd. Oct. 1s.-The Naval Academy and Lehigh football teams to-day played a tie game on the Academy grounds, the score standing 5 to 5 at the end. In the first half. with the ball on the Lehigh’s ten-yard line, the visitors held the Navy for downs, and A. Farabaugh was given the ball. He made a clear break through the line. and, eluding Halsey and Smith, made a beautiful run of 100 yards and a touch down. Butler failed at goal. This was the only score made in the first half. In the second half Navy kept the ball in Lehigh’s territory most of the time, but with the game nearly at an end they failed to gain and Belknap missed a field goal. Lehigh tried to get the ball back of their goal, but 1t slipped from them and Whiting fell on 1t for a touchdown, tying the score. Lehigh claimed that none of their men had touched the ball and refused to play. DIR. Dashiel had to call time on them before they would continue the game. The Pennsylvanians tried to carry of the ball after the game and nearly precipitated a riot. Time of halves. twenty minutes.

The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, Georgia, October 19, 1902, page 3 (results column)
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College Foot Ball. University of Pennsylvania 6; Brown To- Harvard IA: West Point 6. Princeton %; Washington and Jefferson 5. Cornell 6: Carlisle Indians 10. Michigan %: Notre Dame 0. Naval Academy 5; Lehigh 5. Chicago IL; Chicago 0. Georgetown %; Virginia Military In stitute II. Franklin and Marshall So; Column bian o. At Observation-Disclosures of Tonnes see 80; Maryville College O. Columbia 35. Hamilton o. Lafayette 49, Manhattan 5. Harvrrd Freshmen IL, Phillips Exc ter 0. Yale Freshmen II, Hotchkiss School 0. Dartmouth Is, Williams o. University of Louisiana 4; University Of Texas 0. Alabama Polytechnic Institute 90; University of Alabama 0. Vanderbilt, “a; Kentucky, II.

Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, October 20, 1902, page 1 (results column)
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Foot Ball Scores. At Philadelphia-Brow IS, Penn sylvania 8. At Ithaca, N. Y.-Carlisle 10, Cor nell 6. At Princeton-Princeton %, Wash ingtsn and Jefferson S. At Columbus, O.-O,lio State Uni vers1ty 34, Marietta 0. At Kansas City-Haskell, Indiana, 40, Missouri University 0. At Cedar Falls. Iowa-Normal u Cornell, Iowa, II. At Bloomington, Ind.-Indiana Uni versity II, Depauw 5. At Fargo, N. D.-North Dakota Aglicultural College 53. Carleton o. AT Toledo, O.+-University of Michigan %, Notre Dame o. At Annapolis, Md.-Naval academy 5. Lehigh 5. At Ames, Iowa-Ames %, Grinnell O.
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)
Navy 88% to win.
The series
Every Lehigh–Navy gameNavy leads 15–6–1 in 22 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.
| 2018 | Navy 51, Lehigh 21 | |
| 1987 | Lehigh 24, Navy 9 | |
| 1986 | Navy 41, Lehigh 0 | |
| 1984 | Navy 31, Lehigh 14 | |
| 1983 | Navy 30, Lehigh 0 | |
| 1913 | Navy 39, Lehigh 0 |
Around this game
Lehigh
- Next gamevs. Union (NY)Oct. 22, 1902
- SeasonLehigh in 1902
- ProgramLehigh history and records
Navy
- Next gamevs. PennsylvaniaOct. 22, 1902
- SeasonNavy in 1902
- ProgramNavy history and records

