Lehigh Football Nation

I've written a lot about Lehigh/Lafayette history so much over the years.  I've written a book about the early Rivalry between Lehigh and Lafayette , and I've blogged and recapped many Le/Laf games over the course of my life. Lehigh and Lafayette have met on the football field over 150 times, and each meeting is its own story.  I know many of the stories well. I've found during "Rivalry Week" for Lehigh and Lafayette that with the sheer volume of games, it's possible to find prior meetings that seem to match similar, but not exact, "vibes".  There are narratives of titles on the line, teams with losing records upsetting teams with winning records... pretty much everything under the sun. This week, 2-8 Lehigh will face off against 8-2 Lafayette.  If the Leopards win, they win no worse than a co-championship with Holy Cross, win the Patriot League autobid to the FCS Playoffs, and - probably the best part of all - they get to celebrate a victory on ...

Brown and White, 1957 Everyone had heard of the Lambert Trophy on the campuses of Lehigh and Lafayette. Awarded to the most outstanding college football team in the East, it was routinely won by some of the legendary big-school programs of the time.   Jock Sutherland 's Pitt teams and Earl "Red" Blaik 's Army teams dominated the Lambert Trophy balloting in the first couple of decades of the award. In 1957 the Lamberts and their board members, including Kermit Roosevelt , son of Teddy Roosevelt,  decided that there ought to be a Lambert Trophy for smaller schools in the East as well - schools that played against "major colleges", but didn't play the majority of their games against those schools. It gave an extra jolt of excitement to the Rivalry.