1894 Lehigh football team

The 1894 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Pudge Heffelfinger, the team compiled a 5–9 record and was outscored by a total of 242 to 120.[1]

1894 Lehigh football
Conference	Independent
1894 record	5–9
Head coach	Pudge Heffelfinger (1st season)

1894 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					16	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	0	–	0
Villanova			–					1	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					11	–	2	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					7	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					10	–	5	–	0
Colgate			–					2	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					6	–	4	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	5	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					7	–	5	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					4	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					3	–	3	–	0
Massachusetts			–					3	–	3	–	0
Western Univ. Penn			–					1	–	1	–	0
Lafayette			–					5	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	9	–	0
Drexel			–					1	–	2	–	1
Williams			–					1	–	3	–	0
MIT			–					1	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					1	–	8	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	3	–	0
Wesleyan			–					0	–	5	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Rutgers	Bethlehem, PA	W 24–0		[2]
October 3	Princeton	Bethlehem, PA	L 0–8
October 10	Swarthmore	Bethlehem, PA	W 33–0
October 13	vs. Yale	New York, NY	L 0–34
October 17	at Penn	Philadelphia, PA	L 0–30
October 20	Carlisle	Bethlehem, PA	W 22–12
October 27	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ	L 0–32
October 27	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval East Orange, NJ	L 0–14	1,200-1,500	[3]
October 31	North Carolina	Bethlehem, PA	W 24–6
November 10	vs. Yale	New York, NY	L 0–50
November 11	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 0–10
November 14	at Lafayette	Easton, PA (rivalry)	L 0–28
November 24	Lafayette	Bethlehem, PA	W 11–8
November 29	at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY	L 6–10

References

1. "1894 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
2. "Lehigh, 24; Rutgers, 0". New York Tribune. September 30, 1894. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Orange, 14; Lehigh, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 28, 1894. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.