1889 Lehigh football team

1889 Lehigh football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–3–2
Head coach	None

1889 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	0
Massachusetts			–					2	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					15	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					9	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					5	–	1	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	1	–	1
Navy			–					4	–	1	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	1	–	0
Lehigh			–					8	–	3	–	2
Cornell			–					8	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	6	–	0
Brown			–					2	–	2	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					5	–	7	–	1
Bucknell			–					2	–	3	–	1
Lafayette			–					3	–	4	–	2
Columbia			–					2	–	7	–	2
Fordham			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1889 Lehigh football team represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1889 college football season. The team finished with an overall record of 8–3–2.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	2:40 p.m.	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ	L 0–16
October 10		Princeton	Bethlehem, PA	L 4–16
October 16	3:30 p.m.	Haverford	Athletic Association's grounds South Bethlehem, PA	W 60–0
October 19	3:15 p.m.	at Penn	West Philadelphia grounds Philadelphia, PA	L 4–6
October 30		Lafayette	University grounds South Bethlehem, PA (The Rivalry)	W 16–10
November 2		at Columbia	Berkeley Oval New York, NY	W 51–6	1,500
November 11		Penn State	South Bethlehem, PA	W 106–0
November 16		at Lafayette	The Quad Easton, PA	T 6–6	2,000
November 20		Penn	Bethlehem, PA	W 8–0
November 22		vs. Wesleyan	Hampden Park Springfield, MA	T 11–11
November 28	10:45 a.m.	at Navy	Annapolis, MD	W 26–6
November 29	3:38 p.m.	vs. Johns Hopkins	Capitol Park Washington, DC	W 40–0	1,000
December 1		at Virginia	Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA	W 26–12