The 1898 Lehigh football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Epis ...

as an independent during the

1898 college football season Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...

. In its first season under head coach

Samuel Huston Thompson Samuel Huston "Shy" Thompson Jr. (November 1, 1875 – February 17, 1966)"Former Chairman Of FTC, Roosevelt Aide Dies At 90", ''The York Gazette and Daily'' (February 19, 1966), p. 2, 15. was an American lawyer and college football coach. The Pr ...

, the team compiled a 3–6–1 record and was outscored by a total of 106 to 49.

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