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The 1976 Lehigh Engineers 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
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as an
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during the 1976 NCAA Division II football season. In their first year under head coach John Whitehead, the Engineers compiled a 6–5 record. John Healy and Marc Orcutt were the team captains. After starting the season with three wins, the Engineers briefly appeared in the national Division II coaches poll rankings, at No. 6. A loss to Division I opponent
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dropped them to No. 9. Following a loss the next week to Division II rival Bucknell, they fell out of the top 20. Lehigh remained unranked the rest of the year. Lehigh played its home games at
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on the university campus in
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