Lehigh Football Nation

I've written a lot about Lehigh/Lafayette history so much over the years.  I've written a book about the early Rivalry between Lehigh and Lafayette , and I've blogged and recapped many Le/Laf ga...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-1968-lehighlafayette-game.html

  I am an outlier.   I'm a fan of a 1-6 college football team, and I'm headed out to Bucknell next weekend, rain or shine, to watch two Patriot League squads with losing records face off a...

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 We are now officially midway through the 2023 Lehigh football season.  The Mountain Hawks sit at 1-5 overall, and 0-1 in the Patriot League. I thought I'd go ahead and make up some midseason...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2023/10/made-up-midseason-grades-for-lehigh.html

  One of my guilty pleasures last fall during the Lehigh football season was watching the FX show "Welcome to Wrexham".  It was a surprising balm on a tough 2-9 year. It only came about - ...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2023/09/welcome-to-wrexham-i-mean-lehigh.html

We didn't want to be here, but we're here now once again.  Lehigh fans have entered this offseason wondering who might be on the Lehigh Athletic Department's shortlist for the next head footb...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2022/12/my-lehigh-football-head-coaching.html

  I really wanted the Tom Gilmore Era to work. I did not first meet Tom Gilmore when he was a fiery defensive coordinator for some of the best Lehigh teams in history, but I thoroughly enjoy...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-tom-gilmore-era.html

Bryce Harper took control of the city of Philadelphia on a 1-2 pitch. He fouled off two 99 mph fastballs, took a changeup just low, and then crushed Daniel Suarez's 98.9 mph sinker into the l...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2022/10/bryce-harpers-home-run-caused.html

  BETHLEHEM, PA - It's amazing to contemplate that only two players on Lehigh's spring roster, both fifth-year seniors, experienced anything resembling a regular, fifteen practice, spring s...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2022/04/lehighs-first-true-spring-game-in-last.html

  It's the spring, and what that means is that the weather (hopefully) is getting better, the flowers are blooming, and - most importantly - we're in the middle of spring football season. ...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2022/04/breaking-down-lehighs-fall-2022.html

  Early last Friday morning, Lehigh football began their spring practice as the sun came up.  In so doing, the Mountain Hawks started their long journey and preparation for the fall 2022 f...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2022/03/fresh-off-successful-november-lehigh.html

It was a surprise.  Well, to me, anyway. Most people assumed that Lafayette head coach John Garrett was safe as the Leopards' head coach.  Though his five year record wasn't great, he had b...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2021/12/eleven-guys-who-might-be-lafayettes.html

I wish I thought this would actually happen. I wish the Patriot League was proactive, and thinking several steps ahead. But as an observer of the Patriot League for more than twenty years, ...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2021/10/if-patriot-league-thought-bigger-this.html

I was trying to figure out the worst Lehigh/Colgate game I have ever witnessed. My history goes way back with Lehigh, of course, and I really had to rack my brain.  What loss to Colgate tha...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2021/09/mud.html

2015 was a great year for Patriot League football.   It was a season where two Patriot League schools would qualify for the FCS Playoffs, and Dan Hunt's Colgate team would have a one of the P...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2021/09/competitive-disadvantage.html

Over the years, the Lehigh football program has always had very high expectations in every sense.   The expectations at Lehigh, as I've observed it, are: * That Lehigh football teams alw...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-47-3-loss-to-villanova-simply-isnt.html

The year was 2004.   For about a year I had been blogging about Lehigh football, thanks to the relatively new Blogger platform that allowed me to collect my thoughts (as soon as I could ge...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2021/03/remembering-paul-reinhard.html

What does a guy who covers the Patriot League do when there's no Patriot League events to cover? In ordinary years, this would be a rhetorical question.  Ordinarily, I would be pushing out pie...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2020/12/hoping-in-2021-hope-of-next-game.html

The Patriot League could very well be in a huge bind assuming the Ivy League goes forward with their college football restart plans. According to Mark Blaudschun of TMG Sports, the Ivy League is...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2020/06/assuming-ivy-is-cancelling-out-of.html

Late last week I caught up with Lehigh head football coach Tom Gilmore to ask him some questions about the incoming class and the recruiting season in general.  Here's what he told me. Read...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2020/02/tom-gilmore-talks-about-incoming.html

Happy holidays and hope everyone has a merry 2020 and beyond.  Here at LFN, we wanted to compile a post listing the best and most memorable victories in the 2010 decade as voted on by one superf...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2019/12/happy-mountain-hawk-2010s-top-lehigh.html

Below, we're going to do a quick once-over of Lehigh's game notes and possible injuries, then we'll dive right into 5 things to look for with Sacred Heart, my Keys to the game, and the cherry on ...

https://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2019/11/rivalry155-five-things-to-watch-keys-to.html

LFN: So it must be interesting being back here coaching in The Rivalry.  TOM GILMORE: It is. I mean, you know, when you step back and you think this is the most played game in college fo...

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LFN: Did you have a pretty busy class schedule this year? S SAM MCCLOSKEY:  I got here late today as well. Tuesday through Thursday is pretty busy. Monday and Friday, actually, I'll have c...

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One of the nice things about having done this for long is that at my fingertips I can summon up the definitive account of the last five meetings of The Rivalry through my game recaps of the time....

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LFN: So your in your fifth year, you're and environmental science major. How's that? How's it been going along here for you? How has that worked out with integrating with football? DE JUWAN...

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