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The Lafayette–Lehigh MVP Trophy plaque in February 2011. Although they did not meet on the football field until 1884, an anecdote from David Bishop Skillman's history of Lafayette College reveals that bad blood existed between the two places even before Lehigh University was founded.
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.
Rivals is a period black comedy television series made for Disney+.It is an adaptation of the 1988 Jilly Cooper novel of the same name.It stars an ensemble cast including David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Katherine Parkinson, Victoria Smurfit, Alex Hassell, Nafessa Williams, Bella Maclean, Emily Atack and Danny Dyer.
Although Lafayette won the first game played at brand new Goodman Stadium in 1989, Lehigh has won 9 of the last 11 at Goodman, and 16 of 25 since Patriot League play began. Lehigh won the latest contest in 2024 and won an overtime thriller in 2009. The overall record stands at Lafayette 82, Lehigh 73. There have been 5 ties.
In 1929, Lafayette joined with Lehigh and Rutgers to form the Middle Three Conference, which consisted of round-robin games between the two teams. The schools split the first year of the series at 1–1–0 each. Lafayette won their first Middle Three title the following season.
The 2021 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team represented Lehigh University in the 2021 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mountain Hawks, led by third-year head coach Tom Gilmore , played their home games at Goodman Stadium as a member of the Patriot League .
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Fisher Stadium's scoreboard 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.