1889 Lehigh football team

The 1889 Lehigh football team represented Lehigh University in the 1889 college football season. The team finished with an overall record of 8–3–2.^[1]

1889 Lehigh football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–3–2
Head coach	None
Seasons ← 1888 1890 →

1889 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
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

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 5	2:40 p.m.	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ	L 0–16	^[2]^[3]
October 12		Princeton	Bethlehem, PA	L 4–16
October 16		at Haverford	Haverford, PA	W 60–0
October 19		at Penn	Philadelphia, PA	L 4–6
October 30		Lafayette	Bethlehem, PA (The Rivalry)	W 16–10
November 2		Columbia	Bethlehem, PA	W 51–6
November 11		Penn State	Bethlehem, PA	W 106–0
November 16		at Lafayette	The Quad Easton, PA	T 6–6
November 20		Penn	Bethlehem, PA	W 8–0
November 22		vs. Wesleyan	Hampden Park Springfield, MA	T 11–11	^[4]
November 28		at Navy	Annapolis, MD	W 26–6
November 30		at Johns Hopkins	Baltimore, MD	W 40–0
December 1		at Virginia	Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA	W 26–12	^[5]
All times are in Eastern time

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References

1. "1889 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". College Football Reference. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
2. "Princeton's Opening Day". The Philadelphia Times. October 6, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "All on Princeton's Side". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "A Tie Game". The Meriden Daily Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. November 23, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
5. "Football in Virginia". Chattanooga Daily Times. Chattanooga, Tennessee. December 2, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved June 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com  .
6. "Lehigh Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved May 9, 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}