The 1953 Lehigh Engineers football team was an
American football team that represented
Lehigh University during the
1953 college football season
The 1953 college football season finished with the Maryland Terrapins capturing the AP, INS, and UPI national championship after Notre Dame held the top spot for the first nine weeks. The No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners defeated Maryland in the Orange ...
. Lehigh placed last in the
Middle Three Conference.
In their sixth year under head coach
Bill Leckonby
William Bader Leckonby (September 16, 1917 – October 22, 2007) was an American football player, coach of football and golf, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York and fr ...
, the Engineers compiled a 4–5 record.
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.
Lehigh played its home games at
Taylor Stadium on the university's main campus in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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