Lafayette at Lehigh

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  Morning journal and courier, Connecticut, October 31, 1887, page 4

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  Saturdays Football Games-Hare and HOunds-Br1ef Mention. President Dwight preached in the chapel yesterday. MT. N. L. Cushing addresses the Classical and Pathological society on the “Theater at Thoricu” tonight. The freshmen defeated an eleven composed of juniors at the Field Saturday eighteen points to two. The fall games of the Harvard Athletic as sociation were held on Holmes Field Satur- day. Only one record was broken, Davis lowering the Harvard record for two mile bicycle race by twenty five seconds. The hare and hounds run from the Field Saturday was very successful. Lane ‘SS and Harmar go were the hares and they led about thirty hounds on an eight or nine mile run around Maltby lake and towards SaVin Rock Harmar was the first hare home and Phelps ’87 the first hound. The latter won last years run. The next run occurs We’d nesday. The football games Saturday resulted as follows: Yale defeated University of Penn sylvania in good game at Philadelphia, fifty points to nothing. Princeton defeated Wes- ieyan, 69 to o. Trinity beat Amherst go to 6. Williams defeated Rutgers 12 to 5, and Lehigh conquered Lafayette to the tune of 10 to 4

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  St. Paul daily globe, Minnesota, October 30, 1887, page 4

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  Foot Ball. uSoUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa, Oct. o. Lehigh defeated Lafayette to-day in a closely contested game of foot ball by score of 10 to 4. Corbin made both touch-downs for Lehigh and Van Loon the one for Lafayette, and Lafayette was extremely rough, neither side scoring in the second half.

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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 81 since this game.