Lehigh at Pennsylvania
Saturday, October 3, 1903 Share
Pennsylvania beat Lehigh 16–0. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 22–2.
Final
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Lehigh–Pennsylvania gamePennsylvania leads 45–12 in 57 meetings, counting the 33 since this game.
| 2026 | Lehigh 20, Pennsylvania 7 | |
| 2025 | Lehigh 44, Pennsylvania 30 | |
| 2021 | Pennsylvania 20, Lehigh 0 | |
| 2018 | Pennsylvania 30, Lehigh 10 | |
| 2017 | Pennsylvania 65, Lehigh 47 | |
| 2016 | Lehigh 49, Pennsylvania 28 |
Around this game
Lehigh
- Next gameat SwarthmoreOct. 7, 1903
- SeasonLehigh in 1903
- ProgramLehigh history and records
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. HaverfordOct. 7, 1903
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1903
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records

