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Lehigh vs. Muhlenberg

Lehigh and Muhlenberg have 14 meetings on file, the first in 1907; Lehigh leads the series 12–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Lehigh 8–⁠2.

Lehigh wins
12
Muhlenberg wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1907
Longest streak
10 Lehigh
Current streak
1 Muhlenberg
Last 10 meetings
Lehigh 8–⁠2
Most recent
1925

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠0
1910s8–⁠0
1920s3–⁠2
Average margin
22.2 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Lehigh
7–⁠1 Lehigh’s record at home
At Muhlenberg
1–⁠5 Muhlenberg’s record at home
Shutouts
8

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Lehigh’s biggest win1920: Lehigh 56, Muhlenberg 0by 56 points
  2. Muhlenberg’s biggest win1925: Muhlenberg 9, Lehigh 7by 2 points
  3. Upset1925: Muhlenberg 9, Lehigh 7Muhlenberg had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1921: Muhlenberg 14, Lehigh 13Muhlenberg had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Lehigh and Muhlenberg, 1907 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 The Marion daily mirror's story of the 1907 game: FOOTBALL

    1907 · The Marion daily mirror, Marion, Ohio, Sep 30, 1907

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1913 game: |lEHIGH SLIDES TO VICTORY Muhlenberg Fights H;trd, but to No Purpose.

    1913 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 26, 1913

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1914 game: LEHIGH RUNS UP SCORE Cahill and Hoban Show wen in Beating Muhlenberg'

    1914 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 25, 1914

  • The Harrisburg telegraph's story of the 1915 game: CENTRAL TECH AND HARRISBURG ACADEMY SCORE WCTORSBG GAMES Saturday Results in Gridiron Battles

    1915 · Harrisburg telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., Oct 25, 1915

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1919 game: Lehigh Finds Muhlenberg Easy Victim by Big Score

    1919 · New-York tribune, Nov 16, 1919

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 31, 1925Muhlenberg 9, Lehigh 7at Lehigh
Oct 27, 1923Lehigh 13, Muhlenberg 3at Muhlenberg
Oct 28, 1922Lehigh 26, Muhlenberg 7at Lehigh
Nov 5, 1921Muhlenberg 14, Lehigh 13at Muhlenberg
Nov 6, 1920Lehigh 56, Muhlenberg 0at Lehigh
Nov 15, 1919Lehigh 33, Muhlenberg 7at Lehigh
Nov 2, 1918Lehigh 54, Muhlenberg 0at Muhlenberg
Nov 3, 1917Lehigh 47, Muhlenberg 0at Lehigh
Nov 4, 1916Lehigh 9, Muhlenberg 0at Muhlenberg
Oct 23, 1915Lehigh 20, Muhlenberg 0at Lehigh
Oct 24, 1914Lehigh 27, Muhlenberg 0at Muhlenberg
Oct 25, 1913Lehigh 7, Muhlenberg 0at Lehigh
Nov 16, 1912Lehigh 7, Muhlenberg 3at Muhlenberg
Sep 28, 1907Lehigh 29, Muhlenberg 0at Lehigh

Every game is listed as played on the field.