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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.
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.
Lehigh is Lafayette's primary rival and is the most played rivalry in college football (160 games as of the 2024 season). The rivalry is also the longest running annual college football series in the United States, with the two schools meeting every year since 1897.
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 .
Lehigh finished with a league record of 7–7, but later vacated 6 wins for an adjusted record of 1–13 (per Forfeits and Vacated Games) **In 2021, Navy finished 12–1, the best regular season winning percentage and received the #1 seed in the league tournament.
November 6, 2024 at 2:04 PM. Following the election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Lafayette Republicans reacted to the results, both local and nationwide, as they looked ahead to the coming months and beyond.
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]