Lafayette vs. Lehigh

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

1. Lafayette’s biggest win1905: Lafayette 53, Lehigh 0by 53 points
2. Lehigh’s biggest win1917: Lehigh 78, Lafayette 0by 78 points
3. Upset1908: Lehigh 11, Lafayette 5Lehigh had a 12% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1902: Lehigh 6, Lafayette 0Lehigh had a 14% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1888: Lehigh 6, Lafayette 4Lehigh had a 18% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Lafayette’s side (Bull 2–⁠1 against Newton). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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  1887 · Morning journal and courier, Connecticut, Oct 31, 1887

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  1889 · Pittsburg dispatch, Pittsburg [Pa.], Oct 31, 1889

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  1893 · Richmond dispatch, Richmond, Va., Nov 19, 1893

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  1895 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 10, 1895

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  1897 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 26, 1897

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Lafayette vs. Pennsylvania80 meetings, Lafayette 21–⁠55–⁠4
• Lafayette vs. Rutgers52 meetings, Lafayette 16–⁠35–⁠1
• Lafayette vs. Colgate49 meetings, Lafayette 11–⁠35–⁠3
• Lafayette vs. Princeton45 meetings, Lafayette 3–⁠39–⁠3
• Lehigh vs. Pennsylvania57 meetings, Lehigh 12–⁠45
• Lehigh vs. Princeton52 meetings, Lehigh 10–⁠40–⁠2
• Lehigh vs. Rutgers51 meetings, Lehigh 27–⁠24
• Lehigh vs. Colgate42 meetings, Lehigh 19–⁠21–⁠2