Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from July 26, 2015

Know Your 2015 Opponents: Penn

Lehigh's relationship with the schools of the Ivy League go all the way back to the 1880s. Yes, really. In 1885, Lehigh's fledgling football team opened the season with the University of Pennsylvania, who throttled the Brown and White 54-0. 1887 was the year that Princeton first squared off against Lehigh, throttling them 80-0 And it would be 1890 when Yale first hosted Lehigh, 26-0 winners. These three traditional Ivy League football opponents appear on Lehigh's football schedule for 2015 and will be a critical litmus test for this your Mountain Hawk football team. But one opponent stands out more because of the fact that Lehigh hasn't played them in more than a decade. We're going to be talking today about Penn, a rival (with a little r) that hasn't faced off against Lehigh in over a decade.