1889 Lehigh football team

American college football season

1889 Lehigh football

Conference| Independent
Record| 8–3–2
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1889 Eastern college football independents records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 10  | - | 0  | - | 0
Massachusetts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 0  | - | 0
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 15  | - | 1  | - | 0
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 9  | - | 2  | - | 0
Franklin & Marshall |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 1  | - | 1
Dickinson |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 1
Navy |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 1
Tufts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 1  | - | 0
Lehigh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 3  | - | 2
Cornell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 4  | - | 0
Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 6  | - | 0
Brown |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 0
Penn State |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 0
Delaware |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 1  | - | 1
Wesleyan |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 7  | - | 1
Bucknell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 3  | - | 1
Lafayette |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 4  | - | 2
Columbia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 7  | - | 2
Fordham |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 3  | - | 0
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 4  | - | 0
NYU |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 2  | - | 0

The 1889 Lehigh football team represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1889 college football season. The team finished with an overall record of 8–3–2.

## Schedule

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Date| Time| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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October 5| 2:40 p.m.| at Princeton| Princeton, NJ| L 0–16| | [1][2]
October 10| | Princeton| Bethlehem, PA| L 4–16| | [3]
October 16| 3:30 p.m.| Haverford|

* Athletic Association's grounds
* South Bethlehem, PA

| W 60–0| | [4][5]
October 19| 3:15 p.m.| at Penn|

* West Philadelphia grounds
* Philadelphia, PA

| L 4–6| | [6]
October 30| | Lafayette|

* University grounds
* South Bethlehem, PA (The Rivalry)

| W 16–10| | [7]
November 2| | at Columbia|

* Berkeley Oval
* New York, NY

| W 51–6| 1,500| [8][9]
November 11| | Penn State| South Bethlehem, PA| W 106–0| | [10]
November 16| | at Lafayette|

* The Quad
* Easton, PA

| T 6–6| 2,000| [11]
November 20| | Penn| Bethlehem, PA| W 8–0| | [12]
November 22| | vs. Wesleyan|

* Hampden Park
* Springfield, MA

| T 11–11| | [13]
November 28| 10:45 a.m.| at Navy| Annapolis, MD| W 26–6| | [14]
November 29| 3:38 p.m.| vs. Johns Hopkins|

* Capitol Park
* Washington, DC

| W 40–0| 1,000| [15]
December 1| | at Virginia|

* Madison Hall Field
* Charlottesville, VA

| W 26–12| | [16]

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## References

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1. ^ "Princeton's Opening Day". The Philadelphia Times. October 6, 1889. p. 3 - via Newspapers.com.
2. ^ "All on Princeton's Side". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1889. p. 2 - via Newspapers.com.
3. ^ "Foot-ball At Bethlehem". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
4. ^ "Foot Ball at Lehigh To-day". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 16, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
5. ^ "Lehigh Has An Easy Time". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
6. ^ "Kicking Out A Victory". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
7. ^ "Foot Ball at Lehigh". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
8. ^ "Columbia Defeated by Lehigh". The Sun. New York, New York. November 3, 1889. p. 17. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
9. ^ "Lehigh Defeats Columbia". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 3, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
10. ^ "Football". The Sun. New York, New York. November 12, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
11. ^ "Lafayette, 6; Lehigh, 6". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
12. ^ "Turf And Track Sports—Lehigh Gives The University A Lesson In Foot-ball". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 21, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
13. ^ "A Tie Game". The Meriden Daily Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. November 23, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 26, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
14. ^ "Lehigh Vs. Naval Academy". The Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. November 29, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
15. ^ "Lehigh Kept The Lead". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. November 30, 1889. p. 7. Retrieved August 9, 2024 - via Newspapers.com .
16. ^ "Football in Virginia". Chattanooga Daily Times. Chattanooga, Tennessee. December 2, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved June 23, 2020 - via Newspapers.com .
17. ^ "1889 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". College Football Reference. Retrieved May 9, 2017.

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