Gettysburg vs. Lehigh

Gettysburg and Lehigh first met in 1915 and have played 6 times; Gettysburg leads the series 3–⁠2–⁠1. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Gettysburg 3–⁠2, and Gettysburg has won the last 3.

Gettysburg wins
3
Lehigh wins
2
Ties
1
First meeting
1915
Longest streak
3 Gettysburg
Current streak
3 Gettysburg
Last 10 meetings
Gettysburg 3–⁠2
Most recent
1965

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠1
1920s0–⁠1–⁠1
1960s3–⁠0
Average margin
16.2 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Gettysburg
1–⁠0 Gettysburg’s record at home
At Lehigh
2–⁠2–⁠1 Lehigh’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Gettysburg’s biggest win1964: Gettysburg 39, Lehigh 7by 32 points
  2. Lehigh’s biggest win1915: Lehigh 29, Gettysburg 0by 29 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Gettysburg and Lehigh, 1915 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 Albuquerque morning journal's story of the 1922 game: FOOTBALL RESULTS

    1922 · Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., Oct 1, 1922

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 16, 1965Gettysburg 26, Lehigh 17at Lehigh
Oct 17, 1964Gettysburg 39, Lehigh 7at Gettysburg
Oct 12, 1963Gettysburg 24, Lehigh 20at Lehigh
Oct 6, 1923Lehigh 29, Gettysburg 6at Lehigh
Sep 30, 1922Lehigh 0, Gettysburg 0at Lehigh
Oct 30, 1915Lehigh 29, Gettysburg 0at Lehigh

Every game is listed as played on the field.