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Lehigh vs. Navy

Lehigh and Navy have 22 meetings on file, the first in 1889; Navy leads the series 15–⁠6–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Navy 8–⁠2.

Lehigh wins
6
Navy wins
15
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1889
Longest streak
6 Navy
Current streak
1 Navy
Last 10 meetings
Navy 8–⁠2
Most recent
2018

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1880s1–⁠0
1890s3–⁠5
1900s0–⁠4–⁠1
1910s1–⁠2
1980s1–⁠3
2010s0–⁠1
Average margin
18 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Navy
15–⁠6–⁠1 Navy’s record at home
Shutouts
11

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Lehigh’s biggest win1890: Lehigh 24, Navy 4by 20 points
  2. Navy’s biggest win1986: Navy 41, Lehigh 0by 41 points
  3. Upset1912: Lehigh 14, Navy 0Lehigh had a 9% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1895: Lehigh 6, Navy 4Lehigh had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1893: Lehigh 12, Navy 6Lehigh had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Lehigh and Navy, 1889 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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Malcolm Perry Navy19 carries, 223 yards, 3 TD2018 Rushing

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The The morning times's story of the 1895 game: MIDDIEs PUSHED THEM HARD. Gave Lehigh Stiff Fiaht-COllege Scored in the Last Half.

    1895 · The morning times, Washington, D.C., Nov 17, 1895

  • The The times's story of the 1897 game: MIDsHIpMEN DEFEAT LEHIGH. Naval Cadets % 10 9 Against the UniYersftY Men

    1897 · The times, District of Columbia, Nov 21, 1897

  • The The times's story of the 1900 game: WON BY LINE tBucK1ne. Annapolis Cadets Drscnt Lehigh I'm n We'll Played Gnme.

    1900 · The times, Washington [D.C.], Oct 28, 1900

  • The The Indianapolis journal's story of the 1902 game: TIE AT ANNAPOLIS. Naval Academy and Lehigh Quit with the Score 3 to 5.

    1902 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Oct 19, 1902

  • The The Washington herald's story of the 1906 game: NAVY'S SCORE SMALL Lehigh Held Sailors to II Points on Muddy Field CAPT. SPENCER IS INJURED Leader of Annapolis VIII Be Laid tn Week or Two by n Wrenched Knee-LenG HunS Give the Middtes Their Two TOuchdowns - Pennsy boys Are strong fn Defense.

    1906 · The Washington herald, Washington, D.C., Oct 21, 1906

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

Sep 15, 2018Navy 51, Lehigh 21at Navy
Sep 19, 1987Lehigh 24, Navy 9at Navy
Sep 27, 1986Navy 41, Lehigh 0at Navy
Oct 13, 1984Navy 31, Lehigh 14at Navy
Sep 24, 1983Navy 30, Lehigh 0at Navy
Nov 1, 1913Navy 39, Lehigh 0at Navy
Oct 12, 1912Lehigh 14, Navy 0at Navy
Nov 5, 1910Navy 30, Lehigh 0at Navy
Oct 17, 1908Navy 16, Lehigh 0at Navy
Oct 20, 1906Navy 12, Lehigh 0at Navy
Oct 15, 1902Navy 5, Lehigh 5at Navy
Oct 19, 1901Navy 18, Lehigh 0at Navy
Oct 24, 1900Navy 15, Lehigh 0at Navy
Nov 18, 1899Navy 24, Lehigh 0at Navy
Nov 12, 1898Navy 6, Lehigh 5at Navy
Nov 20, 1897Navy 28, Lehigh 6at Navy
Nov 7, 1896Navy 24, Lehigh 10at Navy
Nov 16, 1895Lehigh 6, Navy 4at Navy
Nov 11, 1894Navy 10, Lehigh 0at Navy
Oct 28, 1893Lehigh 12, Navy 6at Navy
Nov 27, 1890Lehigh 24, Navy 4at Navy
Nov 28, 1889Lehigh 26, Navy 6at Navy

Every game is listed as played on the field.