1895 Lehigh football team

1895 Lehigh football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–6
Head coach	Laurie Bliss (1st season)

1895 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					14	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					10	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	1	–	1
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	2
Army			–					5	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					7	–	4	–	1
Tufts			–					8	–	5	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					6	–	3	–	0
Amherst			–					6	–	5	–	0
Brown			–					7	–	6	–	1
Carlisle			–					4	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					3	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	3
Cornell			–					3	–	4	–	1
Rutgers			–					3	–	4	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	2
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	0
CCNY			–					2	–	5	–	1
Buffalo			–					1	–	4	–	2
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
MIT			–					1	–	4	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					1	–	4	–	0
Massachusetts			–					1	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	6	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	5	–	0

The 1895 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Laurie Bliss, the team compiled a 3–6 record and outscored opponents by a total of 134 to 63.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	Rutgers	Bethlehem, PA	W 25–0		[2]
October 14	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–54		[3]
October 18	vs. Princeton	Philadelphia Ball Park Philadelphia, PA	L 0–16	2,000	[4]
October 26	at Brown	Lincoln Field Providence, RI	L 4–22	1,500	[5]
November 2	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval East Orange, NJ	L 0–2
November 9	Lafayette	Bethlehem, PA (rivalry)	L 12–22
November 16	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 6–4
November 23	at Lafayette	March Field Easton, PA	L 6–14
November 28	Baltimore Athletic Club	Bethlehem, PA	W 10–0

References

1. "1895 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
2. "Lehigh Starts Off Well". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 29, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved August 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
3. "Largest Score of the Season: Pennsylvania Defeats Lehigh at Football, Fifty-Four Points to Nothing". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 15, 1895. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Princeton and Lehigh: The Tigers Put Up a Weak Game and Disappointed Their Many Admirers". The Times (Philadelphia). October 20, 1895. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Brown 22, Lehigh 4". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .