Find a Lehigh Telecast Near You

Looking for a Lehigh/Lafayette telecast party? Click here and get the information from the Lehigh Alumni website. Plus, you get to see a cool picture of last year's Rivalry that I took.

Included in this year's telecast parties? The first one taking place overseas... in London, England.

I have several more Webshots albums of Lehigh/Lafayette games past. Interested in what the mayhem was like? Click here for pictures of the 1997 clash at Murray Goodman or here for pictures of the 1996 game at Fisher Field. (In the 1996 album, look for secret parking places! Finding a parking space around Easton on Rivalry gameday isn't exactly easy.)

I promise, my yearly trip through the history of the Rivalry, a preview of the game, and -who knows, maybe some other surprises - are coming up in the next few days!

UPDATE: Essential reading for anyone within sniffing distance of the Lehigh Campus is this article from the Brown & White which talks about the school-sponsored events (called "Spirit Week") surrounding this year's "Rivalry". Here's the official release from the University, as well as a list here of events for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday up until gametime:

At Lamberton hall, there are banners on display showing Lehigh pride.

Wednesday Night, 8 p.m. - Lehigh-Laf-A-Palooza, taking place in the Rauch courtyard, which includes live music from bands, The Marching 97, Lehigh Step Team and the Lehigh Spirit Corps. The winner of the Greek House Decoration contest will also be announced.

“Palooza, as it has come to be called, is a novel concept for Lehigh. This year, we've (Lehigh’s class officers and the ASAs) partnered with University Productions to offer an all-out combination pep rally/outdoor concert,” says Scott Wojciechowski ’09, the high-energy president of the Class of 2009.

In addition, the Mountain Hawk will be "named" at tonight's Rally. From 1,000 submissions the Hawks' name has been narrowed down to: Mo, Louie, Southclaw, Clutch and Steel. (Those are the best folks can come up with? Of those, um, choices, give me "Southclaw".)

Thursday afternoon, 4:20 p.m. - The annual Turkey Trot run, starting at Packer Church. A freezing "Rivalry" tradition!

Thursday afternoon, 5:00 p.m. - The annual Bed Races, on Library Drive. A great tradition that has was revived as of last year!

Thursday night, 7:00 p.m. - Lehigh men's basketball team takes on Rider, and tries to give the Mountain Hawks a 3-0 start for the first tiem in recent memory.

Friday is "Brown Out" Day - everyone around the campus is encouraged to wear Brown to support the Mountain Hawks. In addition, the "Marching '97" will be playing in spots all over campus - starting at the "Eco 1" lecture at 8 A.M. Disrupting that class is a time-honored tradition!

Friday Night, 7:00 p.m.: Before the pre-game mayhem, stop by Stabler Arena and watch Lehigh wrestling pull an "Appalachian State" and beat Michigan.

How The Ivy League Is Able To Break the NCAA's Scholarship Limits and Still Consider Themselves FCS

By now you've seen the results. In 2018, the Ivy League has taken the FCS by storm. Perhaps it was Penn's 30-10 defeat of Lehigh a couple of weeks ago . Or maybe it was Princeton's 50-9 drubbing of another team that made the FCS Playoffs last year, Monmouth. Or maybe it was Yale's shockingly dominant 35-14 win over nationally-ranked Maine last weekend. The Ivy League has gone an astounding 12-4 so far in out-of-conference play, many of those wins coming against the Patriot League. But it's not just against the Patriot League where the Ivy League has excelled. Every Ivy League school has at least one out-of-conference victory, which is remarkable since it is only three games into their football season. The four losses - Rhode Island over Harvard, Holy Cross over Yale, Delaware over Cornell, and Cal Poly over Brown - were either close losses that could have gone either way or expected blowouts of teams picked to be at the bottom of the Ivy League. W

Made-Up Midseason Grades for Lehigh Football

We are now officially midway through the 2023 Lehigh football season. The Mountain Hawks sit at 1-5 overall, and 0-1 in the Patriot League. I thought I'd go ahead and make up some midseason grades, and set some "fan goals" for the second half. The 2023 Mountain Hawks were picked to finish fifth in the seven team Patriot League. In order to meet or exceed that expectation, they'll probably have to go at least 3-2 the rest of the way in conference play. Their remaining games are vs. Georgetown, at Bucknell, vs. Holy Cross, at Colgate, and vs. Lafayette in The Rivalry. Can they do it? Culture Changing: B+ . I was there in the Bronx last week after the tough 38-35 defeat to Fordham, and there wasn't a single player emerging from the locker room that looked like they didn't care. Every face was glum. They didn't even seem sad. More frustrated and angry. That may seem normal, considering the agonizing way the Mountain Hawks lost, but it was a marked chan

Fifteen Guys Who Might be Lehigh's Next Football Coach (and Five More)

If you've been following my Twitter account, you might have caught some "possibilities" as Lehigh's next head football coach like Lou Holtz, Brett Favre and Bo Pelini . The chance that any of those three guys actually are offered and accept the Lehigh head coaching position are somewhere between zero and zero. (The full list of my Twitter "possibilities" are all on this thread on the Lehigh Sports Forum .) However the actual Lehigh head football coaching search is well underway, with real names and real possibilities. I've come up with a list of fifteen possible names, some which I've heard whispered as candidates, others which might be good fits at Lehigh for a variety of reasons. UPDATE: I have found five more names of possible head coaches that I am adding to this list below. Who are the twenty people? Here they are, in alphabetical order.

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