LEHIGH FOOTBALL: Excitement Is In The Air for an Historic Spring Football Season
"I've been very impressed with the enthusiasm and attitude across the board," Lehigh head coach Tom Gilmore told me. "Getting the opportunity to be...
Lehigh Football Welcomes 11 New Recruits In An Early Signing Period Like No Other
The signing day celebrations sometimes came with masks, but that didn't make them any less important or meaningful to a group of athletes that have...
OPINION: Lafayette And Lehigh’s Rivalry Put On Hold, As Athletes And Fans Wait in Agonizing Limbo
At the campuses at Lehigh and Lafayette, and the communities that surround them, there is a void in the third week in November, that most...
Lehigh Pausing Practices And Training For Athletics Due To Concerns About Positive COVID Tests
On Tuesday, Lehigh University temporarily suspended training and practices for all sports programs after several Lehigh students tested positive for the coronavirus. ...
Lehigh Football: In Fall Like No Other, Head Coach Tom Gilmore And Staff Use Time To “Fuel The Desire To Play”
For months, fans, players, and Lehigh football head coach Tom Gilmore knew that this game wasn't going to happen on this day. But Gilmore...
Five Burning Questions I Have About A Spring Football Season For the Patriot League
I have five burning questions on the issue that might help to give clarity on what a spring season for the Patriot League might look...
OPINION: Patriot League Fall Sports Cancellation The Right Thing to Do, But A Terrible (Rivalry) Loss For the Community
Hope is not a strategy, and the truth is any form of national strategy has failed in an effort to have college football this fall....
ANALYSIS: As Ivy League Contemplates Moving to Spring, NCAA Needs to Clarify Whether An FCS Championship Will Happen
The Patriot League's dilemmas, whether the rest of FCS admits it or not, is the FCS' dilemmas. And as we inch closer to an...
Patriot League Council of Presidents Announces Guidance On Fall Competition, Including Travel, Preseason Camp Restrictions
The Patriot League Office announced on Monday guidance regarding the 2020 fall competition, a list of principles to "guide the development of a Patriot...
Lehigh Football: Technology Allows Team Navigate Unique Stay-At-Home Spring Season
Lehigh head coach Tom Gilmore will be the first person to tell you that he'd prefer to have a regular spring assessment season for his...
Lehigh Football: Tom Gilmore: “These decisions are unprecedented in response to unprecedented circumstances.”
It was an historic week that nobody could have foreseen. ...
CSJ’s Ranking of the Patriot League’s 2020 Football Recruiting Classes: The Patsy Ratings
I'm proud to unveil this year's edition of the Patsy Ratings....
CSJ Patriot League Women’s Hoops Preview Week Ending 1/12/2020: Crusaders Perfect 3-0 Week Has Holy Cross Atop Standings
Patriot League Women’s Basketball conference play continues this week with five games on Wednesday, January 8, four on Saturday, Jan. 11 and one on Sunday,...
QUICK RECAP: Jeffrey Kordenbrock Boots Game-Winner for Lafayette To Win #Rivalry155 17-16
It is rare that the MVP of the Lehigh/Lafayette game is a kicker, but that's exactly what happened this afternoon at Murray Goodman Stadium as...
For #Rivalry155, Two Young Teams At Lehigh And Lafayette Get Their First Taste Of Competition In The Historic Series
This season, though, there isn't the same feeling of continuity that permeated many of these other games. Part of that comes from the fact that,...
Sacred Heart’s Julius Chestnut Roasts Lehigh For Two Late TDs In 13-6 Win Over Mountain Hawks
Going into this game, Lehigh's defense had a serious challenge on their hands - to stop, or a least slow down, the leading rusher in...
A Winning Season For Two Teams On The Line As Lehigh Travels To Sacred Heart
It's highly unusual for Lehigh (4-5, 3-2) and Sacred Heart (6-4, 4-2)to be playing a non-conference game this late in the season, but for both...
Bucknell Bottles, Bludgeons Lehigh Offense, Which Leads To A 20-10 Bison Victory
It was, depending on your perspective, either the roughest Lehigh offensive performance of the season, or the greatest Bucknell defensive performance of the year....
A “Family Reunion”, Of Sorts, As Lehigh Faces Off Against Bucknell
Most games between head coaches in their first years at a school are ones where the opponents need to feel themselves out, thanks to unfamiliarity. ...
Holy Cross Wins Battle For First Place In Patriot Over Lehigh, 24-17, A Year After It Was A Battle Of 1-6 Teams
For the players of both programs, it was more about demonstrating how much they had improved over that battle of 1-6 teams on a wet,...
QUICK RECAP: Holy Cross Makes One More Play Than Lehigh In The Final Minute, Finishes Off Mountain Hawks In 24-17 Thriller
In the final minute, Holy Cross made one more play than Lehigh....
There Will Be Heat at Murray Goodman As Holy Cross and Lehigh Battle for the Patriot League Supremacy
November in the Lehigh Valley is known for potentially frosty temperatures, blazing red and yellow fall colors, and apple picking season. Don't expect anything chill at...
Surprising Lehigh Beats Georgetown 27-24, Sits Atop Patriot League Standings
After their 27-24 win over Georgetown - their third conference game won on very memorable final plays - what is the Mountain Hawks' secret for...
QUICK RECAP: Henning 27 Yarder Allows Lehigh To Walk Off Winners Against Georgetown, 27-24
Another week, another nail-biting game with the game in doubt in the closing seconds. Fans of of the Mountain Hawks might have been standing, perhaps...
Lehigh Tries To Start A New Winning Streak Vs. Georgetown This Weekend
Last season, Lehigh football suffered through a bunch of firsts that Mountain Hawk football fans had no desire to experience. One important one came on...
Bibbens Magic Helps Deliver Huge 30-27 Lehigh Win In Overtime Over Fordham
Before the biggest game of the year so far for the Lehigh football program, senior WR Dev Bibbens was left off the depth chart for...
Lehigh And Fordham To Tussle In Bronx With First Place In Patriot League On The Line
Both teams find themselves sitting tied atop the Patriot League standings, playing for first place, and unlike last year, there will be no shortage of...
Tough Lehigh Defense Gets Game-Winning Stop On Last Play Of Game, And Beats Colgate 21-14
Nobody at Andy Kerr Stadium was sitting down during the last play of the game....
Intense Colgate/Lehigh Rivalry Sees Raiders And Mountain Hawks Trying To Start League Play On Right Foot
To Colgate fans, Lehigh is returning to the scene of the crime this weekend. That's because the Raiders' last Patriot League conference loss came to Lehigh...
Lehigh Guts Out A Win For Tom Gilmore’s First as Mountain Hawk Head Coach
On a hot, humid late September afternoon at Murray Goodman Stadium, Gilmore won his first football game as head coach, finally outlasting visiting Merrimack 10-3...
QUICK RECAP: This Time, Defense and Special Teams Translates Into Lehigh Victory, 10-3 over Merrimack
It wasn’t the sort of game for the NFL’s Red Zone channel. It wasn’t for people who love power rushing, precision passing, or turnover-free ball....
Show-Me Game Looms for Lehigh Mountain Hawk Football Against Merrimack
In the end, the matchup this weekend will be a show-me type of game, one that might set the trajectory for both programs....
Maier Dissects Lehigh Defense En Route To a 41-13 Win For UC Davis
UC Davis QB Jake Maier had a tremendous evening in the Aggies’ home opener in UC Davis Health Stadium, going 38-for-49 passing for 389 yards...
College Sports Journal Patriot League Previews: Week of 9/14/2019
Last week, Holy Cross stunned many with their 13-10 upset of New Hampshire, the Patriot League's first win over a CAA school this season. This...
For The First Time Since 1977, Lehigh Is Invited Back to UC Davis To Play a Football Game
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks (0-2) make a trip to Davis, California to take on the UC Davis Aggies (1-1). It's a game that promises to...
Villanova’s Packed Home Opener A Happy One for Wildcat Fans, Win 38-10 over Lehigh
The Villanova Wildcats (2-0) surged to a 17-3 halftime lead over Lehigh, and ultimately cruised to a 38-10 win on Saturday evening on the Main...
Lehigh Wins The Internet, But Loses The Football Game to St. Francis (PA), 14-13
We live in a strange world where people consume things in bites. People consume bites like video clips quickly, and sometimes they love them enough...
QUICK RECAP: St. Francis (PA) Gets Revenge For Last Year, Hold On to Win 14-13
It was a game a defensive coordinator could love, and it resulted in a thrilling victory for St. Francis (PA) and an agonizing loss for...
New Look St. Francis (PA) and Lehigh Look To Start 2019 With A Win
Last season, St. Francis (PA) and Lehigh faced off at the exact same time of year (Saturday, Labor Day weekend) at the exact same weekend....
Five Takeaways from Lehigh Football’s 2019 Season-Opener Two Deep
Lehigh has just released their game notes for their 2019 Week 1 tilt against St. Francis (PA), and it's our first look at Lehigh's starting...
One Week Away, Lehigh Finishes Preseason Prep for 2019 Football Season
Much of preseason practice for a football involves building the skills, plays and toughness that’s required for the full grind of a full season. For...
Five Questions Lehigh Must Answer In Training Camp
Youth. Questions. Fifth. Those are three words that haven't normally been associated with Lehigh at the start of preseason training camp in August....
Young Lehigh Squad Eager To Prove Patriot League Voters Wrong This Season
"Over 40% of our team are first-year players," Gilmore said. "And we're excited to see what some of these freshman can do to enhance our...
Tom Gilmore Eager To Put His Stamp on the Lehigh Football Program
It may be hard to believe, but there are only 32 days left before the Lehigh Mountain Hawks take the field in their home opener...
2019 NCAA Division I College Football Team Previews: Lehigh Mountain Hawks
A disappointing 3-8 was salvaged somewhat with a 34-3 win against their long-time Rivals Lafayette. With the win, head coach Andy Coen retired as the...
It’s High Time Lehigh Football Got Murray Goodman Stadium Some Lights
Lehigh Athletics simply can't ignore the outside forces of college football and televised sports forever. They need one renovation more than any other - lights...
Different Perspective As Lehigh Football Holds Their Brown/White Spring Game
There was no official scoring, but plenty of physical play and competition that made it a fun morning for players and spectators....
A Fresh Start and Busy 2019 Spring Season for Lehigh Football
The challenges of being a Division I football coach - the recruiting, the staff-building, even the organization of setting up the program the way Gilmore...
Homecoming Takes On A New Meaning as NBA Star C.J. McCollum Returns to Lehigh Valley
This Sunday, C.J. returns to Stabler Arena to see his Number 3 raised to the rafters during halftime of Lehigh's contest against Holy Cross. C.J....
Lehigh Announces 2019 Football Schedule: Three Conference Champions, Big Sky, CAA Feature
It's a news item in the Lehigh Valley when there isn't an Ivy League team on the football schedule. Five home dates, including the 155th meeting...