Lehigh vs. West Virginia

Lehigh and West Virginia have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1920; West Virginia leads the series 2–⁠1–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s West Virginia 2–⁠1, and West Virginia has won the last 2.

Lehigh wins
1
West Virginia wins
2
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1920
Longest streak
2 West Virginia
Current streak
2 West Virginia
Last 10 meetings
West Virginia 2–⁠1
Most recent
1944

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s1–⁠0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠2
Average margin
31.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Lehigh
1–⁠1 Lehigh’s record at home
At West Virginia
1–⁠0–⁠1 West Virginia’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Lehigh and West Virginia, 1920 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 New York herald's story of the 1920 game: WEST VIRGINIA AND LEHIGH PLAY TIE Blocked Punt Proves Costly to Mountoineers.

    1920 · The New York herald, New York, N.Y., Oct 3, 1920

  • The The Washington herald's story of the 1921 game: West Virginia Loses Thriller to Lehigh

    1921 · The Washington herald, Washington, D.C., Oct 30, 1921

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

Nov 11, 1944West Virginia 71, Lehigh 0at West Virginia
Nov 6, 1943West Virginia 53, Lehigh 6at Lehigh
Oct 29, 1921Lehigh 21, West Virginia 12at Lehigh
Oct 2, 1920West Virginia 7, Lehigh 7at West Virginia

Every game is listed as played on the field.