Brown vs. Lehigh

Brown and Lehigh first met in 1895 and have played 8 times; Brown leads the series 7–⁠1. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Brown 7–⁠1, and Brown has won the last 4.

Brown wins
7
Lehigh wins
1
Ties
0
First meeting
1895
Longest streak
4 Brown
Current streak
4 Brown
Last 10 meetings
Brown 7–⁠1
Most recent
1954

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s2–⁠0
1920s2–⁠1
1930s1–⁠0
1940s1–⁠0
1950s1–⁠0
Average margin
23.1 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Brown
5–⁠1 Brown’s record at home
At Lehigh
0–⁠2 Lehigh’s record at home
Shutouts
4

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Brown’s biggest win1949: Brown 48, Lehigh 0by 48 points
  2. Lehigh’s biggest win1923: Lehigh 12, Brown 6by 6 points
  3. Upset1923: Lehigh 12, Brown 6Lehigh had a 18% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Brown and Lehigh, 1895 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1895 game: LEHIGH BEATEN BY BROWN. AN UNEXPECTEDLY EASY VICTORY FOR THE PROVIDENCE TEAM.

    1895 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 27, 1895

  • The The San Francisco call's story of the 1896 game: GAMES ON THE GRIDIRoN. Yale Men Easily Vamqaish the Carlisle School Indians.

    1896 · The San Francisco call, California, Oct 25, 1896

  • The The New York herald's story of the 1922 game: Brown Defeats Lehigh, s to 2, in First Meeting in rs Years

    1922 · The New York herald, Oct 22, 1922

  • The The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current's story of the 1926 game: Football Results

    1926 · The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, Oct 11, 1926

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Oct 30, 1954Brown 34, Lehigh 6at Lehigh
Oct 22, 1949Brown 48, Lehigh 0at Brown
Oct 24, 1931Brown 33, Lehigh 0at Brown
Oct 9, 1926Brown 32, Lehigh 0at Brown
Dec 1, 1923Lehigh 12, Brown 6at Brown
Oct 21, 1922Brown 6, Lehigh 2at Lehigh
Oct 24, 1896Brown 16, Lehigh 0at Brown
Oct 26, 1895Brown 22, Lehigh 4at Brown

Every game is listed as played on the field.