Lehigh Stats and Fun Facts

[TravelingPanther]

-According to the AP, the trip to Drake to start the season was Lehigh's first plane trip since 2001.

-1486 yards on the ground, leading rusher is Jay Campbell who ran the ball 143 times for 616 yards.

-QB Chris Lum is 176 of 300 for 2252 yards, 15 TDs and 10 INTs. That's an average of 204.7 yards per game.

-The Hawks leading WR is Ryan Spadola. Spadola has 64 catches for 931 yards and 7 TDs.

-DB Jon Littlejohn is aledgedly suspended for the game.

-Jarrad Cribs is the punt returner and has 7 INTs with 1 going for a TD.

-#43 Mike Groome leads the team in tackles. (108)

-#6 Al Pierce leads the team in sacks. (5)

[jnutt]

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-DB Jon Littlejohn is aledgedly suspended for the game.

what? yeeeeeeeeah. okay

[Trapped in California]

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Apparently was ejected for throwing a punch during the game on Saturday.

[95UNIGRAD]

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I would like to hear about their defense - particularly how they're planning to contain our rushing attack.

[casbern]

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what? yeeeeeeeeah. okay

hahaha +30

[Old Lehigh Fan]

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As a Lehigh season ticket holder for more than 25 years I thought I might shed some insight on this team.
1) This is not a great Lehigh football team. BAck in the late 90's Lehigh was always a top 10 team, this team is not as talented.
2)QB Lum is good, solid arm and can escape the pocket but is prone to the INT.
3)Rb Campbell is undersized, quick but not great at breaking tackles. Next best running option is the backup QB Colvin who the run the wildcat with.
4)WR's are talented. Spedola is really good. Solid hands and nice route runner..far and away Lums fav target.
5) The OL is their big strength. The LT Rackley is a AA and will for certain be an NFL draft pick. Big, quick with a nasty mean streak he is a super player. Rest of line is solid with good size.
6)DL is avg with hard working kids with who play hard.
7) LB's are really good, Pierce and Newton are sure tacklers and always around the ball
8 DB's are really fast but can gibe to much cushion. Safties like to hit
9) Kicking game is medicore
I would think UNI would win this game by 14+

[ngineer]

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Littlejohn is not a starter. ST player and backup DB. Deserved to be suspended for throwing the punch (although considering it was Lafayette, a lot of people secretly liked it). Iowans probably don't understand the rivalry we have with that school, but is goes very, very, deep. Not just football, which is what started it, but now it permeates EVERYTHING. I told my daughter 12 years ago that I wouldn't stand in her way of going there, but she would have to figure out how to pay the $40,000/year price tag as I refused to write a check to that school!

[Herdman]

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Littlejohn is not a starter. ST player and backup DB. Deserved to be suspended for throwing the punch (although considering it was Lafayette, a lot of people secretly liked it). Iowans probably don't understand the rivalry we have with that school, but is goes very, very, deep. Not just football, which is what started it, but now it permeates EVERYTHING. I told my daughter 12 years ago that I wouldn't stand in her way of going there, but she would have to figure out how to pay the $40,000/year price tag as I refused to write a check to that school!

It's the same way for UNI fans with Southern Illinois, no love loss there. North Dakota State is trying to push itself onto UNI for a rivalry, but they haven't produced on the field since being invited to the MVFC. Although their fans would certainly make you think otherwise.

[jegbomb52]

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It's the same way for UNI fans with Southern Illinois, no love loss there. North Dakota State is trying to push itself onto UNI for a rivalry, but they haven't produced on the field since being invited to the MVFC. Although their fans would certainly make you think otherwise.

UNI has no rivalry that comes within 1/2 the rivalry that Lehigh has with Lafayette.

[LehighGuy]

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UNI has no rivalry that comes within 1/2 the rivalry that Lehigh has with Lafayette.

Just to give you an idea....until about 1992 one of the more exciting rivalry traditions was flooding the field after the game, tearing down the temporary wooden goal posts, and trying to acquire a piece big enough to be used in beating students from the opposing school.

There were also a few times in the games history where the goalposts were torn down BEFORE the end of the game.

[JayJ79]

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Just to give you an idea....until about 1992 one of the more exciting rivalry traditions was flooding the field after the game, tearing down the temporary wooden goal posts, and trying to acquire a piece big enough to be used in beating students from the opposing school.

assault and battery is a blast!

There were also a few times in the games history where the goalposts were torn down BEFORE the end of the game.

sounds like something Appy State fans would do.

[LehighGuy]

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assault and battery is a blast!


sounds like something Appy State fans would do.

Yep. The last year "the riot" took place was '92 I think. Lehigh in its infinite wisdom decided they were sick of the goal-post thing, so they decided to install all-steel, concrete encased goal posts. They also greased them to keep the student off of them. It was raining all day and obviously the students tried to tear them down anyway. Frustrated by their lack of progress, students elected instead to throw huge chucks of turf and mud at police. In turn, Bethlehem's finest proceeded to beat and mace scores of students in front of every man, woman, and child in the stadium.

Needless to say, that was that. Student are now threatened with EXPULSION if they are arrested at "The Rivalry".

[JayJ79]

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Yep. The last year "the riot" took place was '92 I think. Lehigh in its infinite wisdom decided they were sick of the goal-post thing, so they decided to install all-steel, concrete encased goal posts. They also greased them to keep the student off of them. It was raining all day and obviously the students tried to tear them down anyway. Frustrated by their lack of progress, students elected instead to throw huge chucks of turf and mud at police. In turn, Bethlehem's finest proceeded to beat and mace scores of students in front of every man, woman, and child in the stadium.

I'd pay the price of admission just to see idiots trying to climb up greased-down goalposts and the police beatdown. Would have been fun to watch.

I can understand, to some extent, storming the field/court/etc.
It can be fun celebrating a big win with your teams players.

But I can't understand the "tradition" of vandalism that is tearing down goalposts, and I will never comprehend why people are so prone to riot or assault others to "celebrate"

[LehighGuy]

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But I can't understand the "tradition" of vandalism that is tearing down goalposts, and I will never comprehend why people are so prone to riot or assault others to "celebrate"

The schools honestly HATE each other. As most conflicts go, it started over 100 years ago over religious fervor between the Presbyterians and Episcopalians. Most students don't even know that anymore, but the custom of ill-will towards each other is ingrained into the campus culture nonetheless.

[JayJ79]

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good ole religion. the cause of most conflict. haha.