Lehigh at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 3, 1903

Pennsylvania beat Lehigh 16–⁠0. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 22–⁠2.

AwayLehigh9–⁠2–⁠1 in 1903
0
HomePennsylvania9–⁠3 in 1903
16

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Rock Island Argus's story

    Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Ill., October 5, 1903, page 1 (results column)

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    At Lancaster = Franklin and Mar shall, 6; st. Johns college, Annapolis, @. At Amherst = Amherst, “a; Colby At Cambridge-Harvard, 6; University of Maine, o. At New Haven Yale, 46; UNIVERSE ty of Vermont, 0. At Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 16; Lehigh, 0. At Providence-Brown II; Wesley an, o. At Hanover, n. Dartmouth, Is; Holy Cross, 0. At WilIiamsport – Carlisle Indians -; Bucknell, 0. o. At New York Columbia, Sc; Union, At Chicago – Northwestern University, 23; Lombard. 0. At Chicago University, 81; Indiana University, o. At Lawrence – Kansas University. 81; State Agricultural college. o. At St Louis – Washington University, 21; Rose Polytechnic institute, o. At Lafayette-Purdue. II; Beloit, 0. At Champaign. IIl.-University of Illinois defeated Knox college % to ;. Grogan, of Knox, made drop kick from the 49-yard line. At Iowa City – State University, 20; State Normal. O. At Des Moines-Drake University. Is; Penn college, o. Independents ReOrganIze. The Independent football team has been organized for the season. with Bert COrken manager, Oscar Obcrg captain, VIII Carse secretary and treasurer. The Independents played their first games yesterday, defeating the BENEFITS and West End teams. The Independents issue a challenge to all teams. The lineup is as follows: Center-Ohlwciler Right Guard-Wright. Right Tacllle-Ryan. Right End-Strehmel. Left -FitzSimmons. Left Harder. Left End-ColIigan. Quartz ack-Carse. Right Half-Salzmann and Swan son. Left Half-Oberg and Fowler. Fullback-Mosenfeld and White Benson. of the Bennett team, got his collar bone fractured in yesterdays game.

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)

Pennsylvania 84% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Pennsylvania leads 45–⁠12 in 57 meetings, counting the 33 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Lehigh 20, Pennsylvania 7
2025Lehigh 44, Pennsylvania 30
2021Pennsylvania 20, Lehigh 0
2018Pennsylvania 30, Lehigh 10
2017Pennsylvania 65, Lehigh 47
2016Lehigh 49, Pennsylvania 28

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