The 1957 Lehigh Engineers football team was an

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team that represented

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during the 1957 NCAA College Division football season. Lehigh won the

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championship and the inaugural small-college

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. In their 12th year under head coach Bill Leckonby, the Engineers compiled an 8–1 record, defeating both of their conference opponents. Dan Nolan and Pete Williams were the team captains. In December, the Engineers were the first-ever recipients of the

, an award for the season's best small-college football team in the East. Lehigh was honored alongside

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, which won the large-college Lambert Trophy; both were lauded as proof that a university could field a competitive football team without compromising its academic standards. Lehigh played its home games at

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on the university campus in

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