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2023 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football. The 2023 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team represented Lehigh University as a member of the Patriot League during the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mountain Hawks were led by first-year head coach Kevin Cahill and played home games at Goodman Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The Lafayette–Lehigh MVP Trophy plaque prior to the 144th meeting in November 2009. 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.
The Lehigh football program began in 1883, when student J. S. Robeson organized a football team to play against the University of Pennsylvania's sophomore class team. Athlete and future journalist Richard Harding Davis was a part of that squad. "J. S. Robeson is the father of football at Lehigh," Davis was quoted as saying in Lehigh Quarterly ...
2023 Lafayette Leopards football. The 2023 Lafayette Leopards football team represented Lafayette College as a member of the Patriot League during the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Leopards were led by second-year head coach John Troxell and played their home games at Fisher Stadium located in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Lehigh is especially known for its football rivalry with Lafayette College, the most frequently-played matchup in college football history. Known as The Rivalry , as of 2023 both teams have met 159 times.
In Lehigh's previous season, the Mountain Hawks' roster was very senior heavy, with most of the team's starting players graduating. [1] As such there is an equally large oncoming group of Freshmen, including two quarterbacks Matt Machalik of Palmerton and Hayden Johnson of Manheim Township, as well as Senior QB Matt Rauscher and fifth-year QB Dante Perri. [1]
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 133 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.
The 2022 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team represented Lehigh University as a member of the Patriot League during the 2022 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mountain Hawks, led by fourth-year head coach Tom Gilmore, played their home games at Goodman Stadium. They finished the season 2–9, 2–4 in Patriot League play to finish in a ...