Lehigh at Lafayette

Saturday, November 21, 1914

Lehigh beat Lafayette 17–⁠7. It was the 48th of their 88 meetings on file (of 161); after it, Lafayette led the series 25–⁠20–⁠3 in the games on file.

AwayLehigh8–⁠1 in 1914
17
HomeLafayette5–⁠3–⁠2 in 1914
7

FinalHigh 36°F, low 23°F

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: Lehigh Again Defeats It's Old Rival Lafayette

    New-York tribune, November 22, 1914, page 15

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    Lehigh Again Defeats It’s Old Rival Lafayette from Maxfeld to Blackburn, who ran twenty yards more for a touchdown. Aside from this, Lafayette only on one other time was dangerous, when in the third period, Chenoweth fumbled Wei dons punt and Maxteld fell on the ball on Lehigh’s 25-yard line Lehigh braced and MaXield dropped back to the 3jyard line for a placement kick, but il went wide. Cahall, Lehigh’s sterling drop kick er, was again in evidence to-day. In the first period following a neat forward pass made by him TO Hoban, the Lehigh team marched down the field for four first downs, and seemed sure Of scoring, but 20-yard penalty inter vened, and Cahall dropped back, and despite the fact that the wind was against him booted over a pretty goal from the 30-yard line. There was no more scoring until the last quarter, which started with tho ball on Lafayette’s l5-yard line. hayirr been placed there by Sawtelle aftc. carrying Chenoweth’s forward pass for ty yards. Hoban and Halsted rammed their way 10 within one foot of the goal line, and then Hoban shot through tackle for the first touchdown.

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)

Lafayette 55% to win. Lehigh won as Elo’s underdog.

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 40 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Lehigh 42, Lafayette 32
2024Lehigh 38, Lafayette 14
2023Lafayette 49, Lehigh 21
2022Lafayette 14, Lehigh 11
2021Lehigh 17, Lafayette 10
2020Lafayette 20, Lehigh 13

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