Lehigh University Athletics
Lehigh to be featured on ESPN's honor roll
10/10/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
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Patriot League football rivals Lehigh and Lafayette will be one of ten college gridiron series to be showcased as part of ESPNU Honor Roll: College Football's Top 10. Lehigh-Lafayette will be shown during Honor Roll: College Football's Top 10 Greatest Rivalries on Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN2 and again on Oct. 15 at 8:30 p.m. on ESPNU.
This year's Lehigh-Lafayette contest scheduled for Nov. 18 at 1 p.m. at
This series first kicked off on Oct. 25, 1884 in
Lehigh has won 62 of the all-time meetings, including seven of the last ten, while the Leopards have won 74 games in the series. Five of the games have ended in a tie (all in
Beginning in 1960 the media in attendance selected the game's Most Valuable Player. There have been only four two-time winners - two student-athletes from each school. In 1976
Both teams hold a slight edge in games played at home - Lehigh 39-35 (.527),
The Lehigh-Lafayette rivalry will be the second ESPNU Honor Roll: College Football's Top 10 60-minute telecast in a series of 10, which will also highlight college football's greatest quarterbacks, greatest games, greatest stadiums and many other topics beginning Oct. 6 and running through the remainder of the year.
ESPNU can be found on DirecTV channel 609 and Dish Network channel 148.
