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Lehigh will host the matches in 2023 and 2024, with the contests moving to Lafayette in 2025 and 2026. The change was to accommodate Lafayette's bicentennial celebration in the 2025–26 academic year in honor of the school's 1826 founding. The Rivalry will revert to its regular venue schedule in 2027. [28]
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.
The Murray H. Goodman Stadium is named after real estate developer Murray H. Goodman, a Lehigh alumnus, who donated 550 acres in Saucon Valley in 1983 to build a sports complex. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The stadium is the home of the Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team, who compete in the Patriot League at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision ...
In 1891 the teams played in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The 150th meeting of The Rivalry took place in 2014 and was played at Yankee Stadium in NYC. In 1950, Lehigh's victory ended a 15-year losing streak against Lafayette. In 1963, the game was delayed for one week due to the death of President Kennedy. In 1964, the 100th game ended in a 6–6 tie.
The Delaware–Lehigh football rivalry was an American college football rivalry between the Fightin' Blue Hens of the University of Delaware and the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh University. Though the rivalry has been largely dormant since the 1990s, it was contested annually in the 1950s and 1960s, when both universities were members of the Middle ...
Early in the 1970 season, the Associated Press stated that Lehigh's win over Rutgers was "the start of Lehigh's Middle Three Conference title defense" (as 1969 conference champion). [2] The principal newspapers covering Middle Three teams, The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania , and The Home News of New Brunswick, New Jersey , make no ...
Lafayette met Lehigh in its first intercollegiate game in October 1869, a 45–45 tie in Easton, and earned its first win against Lehigh, a 31–24 decision in Bethlehem. Lafayette's first non-Lehigh college game was a 26–11 loss to Princeton University in May 1874. Football appeared on campus in 1878, and did not become fully organized until ...
Owned and operated by Lehigh University, it is located on the school's Goodman Campus. Stabler Arena is named for Donald B. Stabler, a 1930 Lehigh graduate, founder of Stabler Companies Inc., and a member of the university's Board of Trustees for over 30 years. He and his wife, Dorothy, were the primary donors for the facility. [1]