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1895 Lehigh football
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Record3–6
Head coach
Seasons
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1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   14 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   10 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 1
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 2
Army   –   5 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   8 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   6 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 6 – 1
Carlisle   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   1 – 4 – 2
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   1 – 4 – 0
Massachusetts   –   1 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn.   –   1 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1895 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Laurie Bliss, the team compiled a 3–6 record and outscored opponents by a total of 134 to 63.[1]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28RutgersBethlehem, PAW 25–0[2]
October 14at Penn
L 0–54[3]
October 18vs. Princeton
L 0–162,000[4]
October 26at Brown
L 4–221,500[5]
November 2at Orange Athletic Club
L 0–2
November 9LafayetteBethlehem, PA (rivalry)L 12–22
November 16at Navy
W 6–4
November 23at Lafayette
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
L 6–14
November 28Baltimore Athletic ClubBethlehem, PAW 10–0

References

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  1. ^ "1895 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Lehigh Starts Off Well". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 29, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved August 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Largest Score of the Season: Pennsylvania Defeats Lehigh at Football, Fifty-Four Points to Nothing". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 15, 1895. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton and Lehigh: The Tigers Put Up a Weak Game and Disappointed Their Many Admirers". The Times (Philadelphia). October 20, 1895. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Brown 22, Lehigh 4". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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