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Fisher Stadium's scoreboard in Easton, Pennsylvania following Lafayette College's victory over Lehigh University in the 142nd edition of "The Rivalry" in 2006.The series between the two colleges, which are 17 miles (27 km) away from each other in the Lehigh Valley, is the most played rivalry in college football history with 158 meetings since 1884.
Lehigh and Lafayette are members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The most-played Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) series is the Minnesota–Wisconsin football rivalry, at 134 games. In some cases, during the early years of college football when distant travel was prohibitive, these teams played each other more than once per year.
This is the seventh-longest rivalry game in college football history. The alumni association of the winning school receives the Platypus Trophy, a wooden trophy that had been lost for more than 40 years before being rediscovered in 2005. The rivalry is likely to become intermittent in the future, with Oregon moving to the Big Ten and Oregon ...
The sport of college football is built on rivalries, often dating back decades. And on Saturday, Josh Pate of “Late Kick” decided to rank to the top five fiercest rivalries in the country. Per ...
November 30, when most of the biggest rivalries in college football were contested, saw a number of ugly scenes when victorious road teams planted their flags on the fields of their rivals ...
Border War (Kansas–Missouri rivalry) Boston College–Holy Cross football rivalry; Boston College–UMass football rivalry; Boston College–Virginia Tech football rivalry; Bowling Green–Toledo football rivalry; Bronze Derby; Brown–Rhode Island football rivalry; BYU–Utah State football rivalry
The Rivalry is an American college football rivalry game played annually between the Patriot League teams: the Lafayette Leopards football of Lafayette College and the Lehigh Mountain Hawks football of Lehigh University. It is the most-played football rivalry in the nation and is the longest uninterrupted rivalry game. [1] [2] [3] [4]
It's a rivalry game with 130 years behind it and 70 miles between it, a perfect concoction for an intrastate rivalry. ... One of the great things about old-school college football rivalries is ...