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I’ve been doing this long enough to know that every Lehigh football team is different. The dynamics running through every team is different; what motivates one team has no impact on the team of the following year.
But every big win this 2016 team gets, many of the fans who have been here a while keep whispering:
2011.
Like an Adele Spotify channel, you can’t help but be reminded of 2011 when you go to Murray Goodman Stadium or Fitton Field or wherever they’re playing. The popular online game between fans on the Lehigh football message board is: Who was better, 2011, or 2016?
The answer is still, beyond a shadow of a doubt, 2011 – for now – but the only reason for that is that 2016 is still in the midst of writing their story. Yet it can hardly be helped that fans look at the potential of this 2016 team and think, with apologies to Adele, that they are rolling in the same sort of wins that they were in 2011.
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| Express-Times File Photo, Lehigh 20, Lafayette 13, 2010 |
It was destined to be a day of defense, and any number of hard-hitting inside linebackers could have been the MVP of the 146th meeting between Lehigh and Lafayette.
Lehigh’s defense was on the field thirty-six minutes, and never let a tough Lafayette run game wear them down.
Almost right out of the gates, Lehigh’s defense seemed to want to put their mark on this game.
The first three defensive plays featured three straight tackles by senior LB Al Pierce, pounding Lafayette’s RB Alan Elder and hurrying QB Ryan O’Neil into throwing the ball out of play.
And it only got better from there.
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Chris Leigh
RB
Lake Orion HS, Lake Orion, MI
6’0, 200 lbs
(Photo Credit: Jarrad Henderson/DFP via USA Today)
Lehigh 46, Holy Cross 14 Postgame Commentary: Does This Team Have Shades Of 2011?
By LFN |
I’ve been doing this long enough to know that every Lehigh football team is different. The dynamics running through every team is different; what motivates one team has no impact on the team of the following year.
But every big win this 2016 team gets, many of the fans who have been here a while keep whispering:
2011.
Like an Adele Spotify channel, you can’t help but be reminded of 2011 when you go to Murray Goodman Stadium or Fitton Field or wherever they’re playing. The popular online game between fans on the Lehigh football message board is: Who was better, 2011, or 2016?
The answer is still, beyond a shadow of a doubt, 2011 – for now – but the only reason for that is that 2016 is still in the midst of writing their story. Yet it can hardly be helped that fans look at the potential of this 2016 team and think, with apologies to Adele, that they are rolling in the same sort of wins that they were in 2011.
Read more »
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