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“The past is the past and we aren’t concerned with it. We have learned from our mistakes, and we are ready to move on.”
That was freshman RB Micco Brisker, who told this to The Brown and White this week in regards to last week’s game versus Princeton.
It’s a good attitude to have going into this weekend’s game versus Yale.
It would be easy to complain about injuries, or the officials, or unlucky bounces of the football last week. But to this team’s credit, that wasn’t what the discussion points were about in the weekday media sessions. It was about owning those mistakes, and moving on.
“We need to cut out mental mistakes like penalties and missed assignments on the field, as well as win the turnover margin by forcing more turnovers defensively and preventing them from happening offensively,” said junior LB Colton Caslow this week.
This weekend Lehigh will be looking to move on, actually, from two different games, one from last weekend, where it felt like the Mountain Hawks’ own mistakes cost them the game, and a game a year ago, in which Lehigh lost two 21 point leads and lost a marathon of a game, 54-43, to the same opponents they face at homecoming this year, Yale.
Homecoming is always a big weekend for Lehigh football, but a win for Lehigh this weekend would likely mean a lot more than just making the alumni happy. It would mean “moving on” to league play with the slate finally cleaned – officially, this time.
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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When you Google “Yale Football”, you get to Rory McIlroy and Caroline Wozniaki.
The reason for that is the golf superstar and the rising women’s tennis star showed up at at Yale a few years ago. Apparently Yale’s football team had been making a habit of showing up as a team at the New Haven Open and cheering Wozniaki on, so Caroline and her then-boyfriend Rory (wearing a Yale football jersey, at that), showed up at a practice.
Head coach Tony Reno, though, is hoping that’s not the only thing that shows up when you Google “Yale Football” after this season, which is the 100th anniversary of their football home, the Yale Bowl.
The best way for Yale to kick off their 100th Yale Bowl season would be a win over Lehigh.
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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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