1999 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football | |
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Patriot League co-champion | |
NCAA Division I-AA First Round, L 12–27 vs. Hofstra | |
Conference | Patriot League |
Record | 10–2 (5–1 Patriot) |
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Home stadium | Goodman Stadium |
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Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 14 Lehigh +^ | 5 | – | 1 | 10 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 18 Colgate +^ | 5 | – | 1 | 10 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Towson | 4 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bucknell | 3 | – | 3 | 7 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lafayette | 2 | – | 4 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Holy Cross | 2 | – | 4 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fordham | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | – | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1999 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1999 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Lehigh was co-champion of the Patriot League, but lost in the first round of the Division I-AA national playoffs.
In their sixth year under head coach Kevin Higgins, the Mountain Hawks compiled a 10–2 record.[1] Ian Eason, Kevin Joseph, Brett Snyder and Phil Stambaugh were the team captains.[2]
The Mountain Hawks outscored opponents 478 to 220. Lehigh's 5–1 conference record tied for best in the seven-team Patriot League standings.[3] The co-championship represented Lehigh's first back-to-back Patriot title, and its fourth first-place finish of the 1990s.
The Mountain Hawks were ranked No. 19 in the preseason Division I-AA national poll, and remained ranked throughout the year, rising as high as No. 7 and finishing the year at No. 14. Though co-champion Colgate was given the Patriot League's automatic berth in the Division I-AA playoffs, Lehigh earned an at-large berth. Both Patriot League playoff teams lost in the first round.
Lehigh played its home games at Goodman Stadium on the university's Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 11 | at Fordham* | No. 20 | W 49–7 | 4,177 | [4] | |||
September 18 | Monmouth* | No. 17 | W 56–10 | 10,477 | [5] | |||
September 25 | at Princeton* | No. 15 | W 31–0 | 20,941 | [6] | |||
October 2 | Columbia* | No. 12 |
| W 63–13 | 10,829 | [7] | ||
October 9 | at Dartmouth* | No. 10 | W 30–14 | 6,109 | [8] | |||
October 16 | at No. 11 Delaware* | No. 9 | W 42–35 | 22,032 | [9] | |||
October 23 | Holy Cross | No. 8 |
| W 62–8 | 13,181 | [10] | ||
October 30 | Towson | No. 7 |
| W 44–39 | 10,789 | [11] | ||
November 6 | at Colgate | No. 9 | L 24–28 | 6,228 | [12] | |||
November 13 | at Bucknell | No. 16 | W 48–27 | 3,849 | [13] | |||
November 20 | Lafayette | No. 14 |
| W 14–12 | 16,000 | [14] | ||
November 27 | at No. 5 Hofstra* | No. 14 | L 12–27 | 6,770 | [15] | |||
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