1953 Lehigh Engineers football | |
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Conference | Middle Three Conference |
Record | 4–5 (0–1 Middle Three) |
Head coach |
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Captain | Thomas Gunn |
Home stadium | Taylor Stadium |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rutgers $ | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lafayette | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lehigh | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1953 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1953 college football season. Lehigh placed last in the Middle Three Conference.
In their sixth year under head coach Bill Leckonby, the Engineers compiled a 4–5 record.[1] They lost their sole conference game, against Lafayette; for the second straight year, Lehigh did not meet its other conference rival, Rutgers. Thomas Gunn was the team captain.[2]
Lehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university's main campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 26 | at Columbia* | L 7–14 | 10,000 | [3] | |||
October 3 | at Delaware* | L 13–26 | 4,100 | [4] | |||
October 10 | Buffalo* | W 27–0 | 7,000 | [5] | |||
October 17 | at Gettysburg* |
| L 7–22 | 5,000 | [6] | ||
October 23 | at Boston University* | L 12–52 | 8,000 | [7] | |||
October 31 | Bucknell* |
| W 20–6 | [1] | |||
November 7 | Muhlenberg* |
| W 13–0 | 4,500 | [8] | ||
November 14 | Carnegie Tech* |
| W 26–13 | 7,500 | [9] | ||
November 21 | Lafayette |
| L 0–46 | 14,000 | [10] | ||
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