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American college football season

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
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

The 1889 Lehigh football team represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1889 college football season. The team finished with an overall record of 8–3–2.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 5	2:40 p.m.	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ	L 0–16
October 10		Princeton	Bethlehem, PA	L 4–16
October 16	3:30 p.m.	Haverford	Athletic Association's grounds South Bethlehem, PA	W 60–0
October 19	3:15 p.m.	at Penn	West Philadelphia grounds Philadelphia, PA	L 4–6
October 30		Lafayette	University grounds South Bethlehem, PA (The Rivalry)	W 16–10
November 2		at Columbia	Berkeley Oval New York, NY	W 51–6	1,500
November 11		Penn State	South Bethlehem, PA	W 106–0
November 16		at Lafayette	The Quad Easton, PA	T 6–6	2,000
November 20		Penn	Bethlehem, PA	W 8–0
November 22		vs. Wesleyan	Hampden Park Springfield, MA	T 11–11
November 28	10:45 a.m.	at Navy	Annapolis, MD	W 26–6
November 29	3:38 p.m.	vs. Johns Hopkins	Capitol Park Washington, DC	W 40–0	1,000
December 1		at Virginia	Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA	W 26–12

References

"Princeton's Opening Day". The Philadelphia Times. October 6, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
"All on Princeton's Side". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
"Foot-ball At Bethlehem". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Foot Ball at Lehigh To-day". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 16, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Lehigh Has An Easy Time". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Kicking Out A Victory". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Foot Ball at Lehigh". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Columbia Defeated by Lehigh". The Sun. New York, New York. November 3, 1889. p. 17. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Lehigh Defeats Columbia". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 3, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Football". The Sun. New York, New York. November 12, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Lafayette, 6; Lehigh, 6". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Turf And Track Sports—Lehigh Gives The University A Lesson In Foot-ball". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 21, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"A Tie Game". The Meriden Daily Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. November 23, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Lehigh Vs. Naval Academy". The Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. November 29, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Lehigh Kept The Lead". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. November 30, 1889. p. 7. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Football in Virginia". Chattanooga Daily Times. Chattanooga, Tennessee. December 2, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved June 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"1889 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". College Football Reference. Retrieved May 9, 2017.

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