Archive For The “Hate the Gate” Category
Four years ago, the roles were reversed. Lehigh, playing for a thin chance at a Patriot League championship, hosted nationally-ranked Colgate in their chance for glory that season.They had them on the ropes – but could not finish them off.But it t…
The best part of this particular game was not only the win for Lehigh, and not only the fact that it ended up clinching a playoff game, in retrospect, for the Mountain Hawks. It’s that it was my first-ever real sportswriting piece, for the now-defunct I-AA.org, detailing Lehigh/Colgate and the rivalry that had built up in the years before.
Below the flip, behold my first “I-AA Diary” of the game, in its entirety, pulled from the top-secret LFN archives as the No. 2 “Hate the ‘Gate” classic.
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Lehigh head football coach John Whitehead knew Colgate head football coach Fred Dunlap well. Very well, in fact. Whitehead, the offensive coordinator for the 1973 Lambert Cup-winning Lehigh squad, was the architect of Lehigh's "Wing-T"…
The Doris Day-esque face, presumably a co-ed from nearby Cedar Crest, leaps off the official program of the Lehigh/Colgate game of November 4th, 1961. A reference to a "House Party" on the cover, and "inside! A computer in the Univer…
In honor of "Hate the Gate" week, I thought it appropriate to look at some of the Lehigh/Colgate games over the years and talk a bit about some of the highlights."Hate the Gate" was a term first accredited to LB Tom McGeoy the week …
Is it hokey? At times. Do I believe it's exactly the way things happened? Absolutely not. But my favorite all-time football movie is, and remains, Rudy, and his quest to become a member, even if for just a day, a member of the Fightin' …
