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We break down the Yale game – and we give our fearless prediction, below the flip.
All week everyone’s been tracking the progress of a potential superstorm, hurricane Joaquin. While the main concern, of course, is the safety of everyone in the hurricane’s path, people are also wondering whether the storm will be affecting the game this weekend in the form of wind or rains.
It turns out, if the tracking goes the way the majority models are indicating, that Lehigh’s 12:30 game at Murray Goodman might not only escape the rain, but there might not be any showers to speak of.
In the latest hour by hour at Weather.com, the forecast actually only has modest showers in the morning, ending by 11:00 AM (just in time for tailgating), and remaining partly cloudy all the way until 4:00 PM on Saturday, an absolute perfect window for the football game and Goodman stadium homecoming activities.
In short, it’s increasingly looking like the storm will either move very slowly through the Caribbean, or take a sharp right turn and head so far out to sea that the worst of the winds of the storm will miss the Lehigh Valley completely. Though the situation is still serious along the Eastern shore, at Murray Goodman it is actually, against all earlier odds, looking like good weather.
Lehigh’s relationship with the schools of the Ivy League go all the way back to the 1880s.
Yes, really.
1887 was the year that Princeton, one of the first institutions of higher learning that sponsored o football program, first squared off against Lehigh, throttling them 80-0.
And it would be 1890 when Yale, another one of the early football powers, first hosted Lehigh, with the Eli ending up as 26-0 winners.
These traditional Ivy League football opponents appear on Lehigh’s football schedule for 2015 and will be a critical litmus test for this your Mountain Hawk football team after Lehigh hosts Penn.
These games, too, will not simply be speed bumps in the schedule, either. There’s a lot more emotion in these games for Lehigh than meets the eye.
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The game this weekend versus Yale, the first game in Yale’s season, the first game in the season celebrating the 100th year of the Yale Bowl, is unquestionably a big one for the Mountain Hawks.
That also applies to the Eli, too, thoush.
“We’re excited about the opportunity [to play] against Lehigh,” head coach Tony Reno said. “We want to play great teams in order to be a great team.”
Lehigh fans are hoping that playing doesn’t equate winning.
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| Brianna Yoo/Yale Daily News |
The game this weekend versus Yale, the first game in Yale’s season, the first game in the season celebrating the 100th year of the Yale Bowl, is unquestionably a big one for the Mountain Hawks.
That also applies to the Eli, too, thoush.
“We’re excited about the opportunity [to play] against Lehigh,” head coach Tony Reno said. “We want to play great teams in order to be a great team.”
Lehigh fans are hoping that playing doesn’t equate winning.
Read more »
As you meander to Yale’s website, you’re greeted by an intro video when you click on the link to bring you to “Inside Yale Football“.
The video, featuring a pump-up-the-faithful talk by head coach Tony Reno, has a gothic soundtrack, panning over Yale’s 100 year old stadium, and also panning over walk of fame involving players from as far back as 1872.
That’s not going to be Lehigh’s issue, however, when they’re Yale’s opponent in the Eli’s opening-day game, where the Bulldogs will be celebrating their 100th season playing in the Yale Bowl.
Yale saw its first game played there 100 years ago, minus six days, with a team that was one of the college football powerhouses in the entire nation. This time around, though, they’ll be a team that is picked to finish fifth in the eight-team Ivy League, and is a very young team.
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