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Lehigh Plows Through Bucknell, 41-24, To Remain Undefeated At 4-0

Chuck Burton — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:31:00 +0000

In the 89th meeting between Lehigh and Bucknell, the Mountain Hawk ground game ran up 323 yards rushing - the most rushing yards accrued in a single game since Kevin Cahill has been head coach - in a dominating 41-24 win over Bucknell, keeping Lehigh (4-0, 2-0 Patriot) undefeated overall and undefeated in Patriot League play.

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GAME FOUR, LEHIGH AT BUCKNELL: The Rivalry Nobody is Talking About.. But Should

Chuck Burton — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:06:19 +0000

Nationally, Lehigh/Bucknell might be considered a forgotten rivalry. The national pundits might not make it their Game of the Week, or even think of it as a Rivalry, or even think of it as a competitive game. But don't tell that to the football players at Bucknell or Lehigh. To them, it most definitely not a lost Rivalry. And both sides know exactly how competitive this weekend's game is going to be.

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Patriot League Preview: Spiders Join A Wide-Open Patriot League Title Race

Chuck Burton — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:22:42 +0000

Even by the standards of the Patriot League, last season's title race was one of the wildest in recent memory.

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Opportunistic Bucknell Delivers Lehigh Heartbreak, Beats Mountain Hawks in 2OT, 38-35

Chuck Burton — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:12:00 +0000

The win put Bucknell (3-2, 1-0 Patriot) in first place in the Patriot League, while Lehigh (3-2, 0-1 Patriot) will have an unusually long time to stew on the loss with two consecutive bye weeks before their next football game.

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BUCKNELL AT LEHIGH 9/28/2024: Fixated On The Only “Revenge Game” on Lehigh’s Schedule

Chuck Burton — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:08:13 +0000

This week, Lehigh (3-1, 0-0 Patriot) will be playing their first league game against Bucknell (2-2, 0-0 Patriot) with a unique dynamic.

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Tuesdays With The Patriot League Podcast: 9/24/2024

Chuck Burton — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:07:32 +0000

Enjoy the podcast “Tuesdays with the Patriot League” Podcast, originally aired on Twitter Spaces on Sept. 24th, 2024. Chuck BurtonChuck has been writing about Lehigh football since the dawn of the internet, or perhaps it only seems like it. He’s executive editor of the College Sports Journal and has also written a book, The Rivalry: How.

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The Richmond Spiders’ Patriot League Tale, Part Four: In the Wake Of I-AA Reclassification, An Upstart League Tries To Form

Chuck Burton — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:45:05 +0000

Richmond's Rival, William & Mary, was going to be a founding member of the Colonial League, which is now known as the Patriot League. It was almost a done deal.

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Kevin Cahill Gets First Patriot League Win In 27-19 Victory Over Bucknell

Chuck Burton — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:13:28 +0000

After the game, DB Nick Petelkian cradled the game ball in his arm, but as RB Luke Yoder approached for post game interviews, he said he thought the ball should be split in half.

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LEHIGH AT BUCKNELL 10/21/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction: Two Teams Needing A League Win Face Off In Lewisburg

Chuck Burton — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:09:16 +0000

A very young Lehigh football team finds itself taking a bus this week to Lewisburg, PA to find out about themselves.

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2023 Patriot League Preview: Can Anyone Dethrone The Crusaders?

Chuck Burton — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:14:39 +0000

Holy Cross' dominance over the last four seasons really means there is only one main question worth asking in terms of a Patriot League preview: Is it an impossible task for the other six teams to have any sort of shot to dethrone Holy Cross?

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Bucknell At Lehigh Game Preview And Fearless Prediction, 10/22/2022: Two Teams In Desperate Need To Taste A Win

Chuck Burton — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 02:49:33 +0000

If you're a numbers person, it might be best to skip down to the end, because this Saturday, the Bucknell Bison (0-6, 0-2) will be traveling to Bethlehem to take on the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (1-6, 1-1) in a battle between teams that, to put it mildly, are desperate to get into the win column.

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Lehigh Ends Long Losing Streak, Beats Pennsylvania Rival Bucknell 38-6

Chuck Burton — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 23:46:59 +0000

In the 85th meeting between Bucknell and Lehigh on the football field, the Mountain Hawks rode a friendly home-like atmosphere on the road at Christy Matthewson Stadium to end a long consecutive game losing streak by a score of 38-6.

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In 6-0 Spring Loss to Bucknell, Some Surprising Optimism As Focus Shifts to Lafayette

Chuck Burton — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:01:17 +0000

When you look at it in terms of the development of this team - and how this leads into next fall - there's a lot more positives to draw than a normal fall season when the team is 0-2.

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QUICK RECAP: Bucknell Wins The Patriot League South With a 6-0 Slugfest Victory over Lehigh

Chuck Burton — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 19:44:51 +0000

Two Ethan Torres FGs, one 26 yards, and one 24 yards, were enough to put the Bucknell Bison atop the Patriot League South Division, shutting out Lehigh at Murray Goodman Stadium 6-0.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Preview, 4/3/2021: More Shuffling As COVID-19 Continues To Scramble Schedules

Chuck Burton — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 22:05:27 +0000

An already-crazy Patriot League season still had some craziness left to reveal this week, as the 156th meeting between Lafayette and Lehigh was postponed due to a Tier 1 exposure in the Lafayette program.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Preview, 3/27/2021: Bucknell and Fordham Finally Get Their Spring Seasons Started

Chuck Burton — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:11:59 +0000

In a way it's fitting during this strange season that two of the teams playing this weekend are in their season openers, while their opponents are coming off of two weeks off after winning their openers. It is a byproduct of this crazy Patriot League spring, and results in two fascinating games that are basically playoff games. And with no game film on Bucknell or Fordham, it feels like anything can happen.

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2021 CSJ Patriot League Spring Football Preview

Chuck Burton — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:45:00 +0000

It's been a very, very long wait, but this weekend, finally, we have a weekend of Patriot League football to look forward to.

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The Long Wait Is Finally Over: Patriot League Announces Spring Sports Schedules, Including Football

Chuck Burton — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:54:09 +0000

Today, the Patriot League was the final FCS football conference to unveil their spring competition schedule to the public, as a part of their release announcing the schedules of twenty-two different sports being contested in the spring.

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Lehigh Football: In Fall Like No Other, Head Coach Tom Gilmore And Staff Use Time To “Fuel The Desire To Play”

Chuck Burton — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:13:42 +0000

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 is trying to make the best of a difficult situation.

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Five Burning Questions I Have About A Spring Football Season For the Patriot League

Chuck Burton — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:10:49 +0000

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 like.

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Ivy League Football Plans Would Leave Huge Gaps In FCS Football Schedules

Chuck Burton — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:43:31 +0000

If these are the only two plans that are actively being considered by the Ivy League, it means that, effectively, all out-of-conference games involving Ivy League opponents are cancelled for the fall.

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Patriot League Council of Presidents Announces Guidance On Fall Competition, Including Travel, Preseason Camp Restrictions

Chuck Burton — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:09:00 +0000

The Patriot League Office announced on Monday guidance regarding the 2020 fall competition, a list of principles to "guide the development of a Patriot League 2020 Athletics Plan."

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CSJ’s Ranking of the Patriot League’s 2020 Football Recruiting Classes: The Patsy Ratings

Chuck Burton — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:56:07 +0000

I'm proud to unveil this year's edition of the Patsy Ratings.

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2019 STATS Perform Awards Banquet, Payton Award goes to NDSU QB Trey Lance & Buchanan Award goes to Montana LB Dante Olson

Kent Schmidt — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 05:07:23 +0000

FRISCO, Tex.—North Dakota State redshirt freshman quarterback Trey Lance was recognized with the Walter Payton Award tonight presented by STATS Perform FCS Awards banquet tonight as the best offensive player of the year. “This is just a phenomenal, surreal moment, unexpected totally,” said Carlton Lance, who is Trey’s father, and accepted the award for his.

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What Is Going On With Patriot League Football?

Chuck Burton — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:56:14 +0000

We are two weeks away from the end of the Patriot League regular season, and there is a very distinct possibility that the winner of the League is going to have a losing record.

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Bucknell Bottles, Bludgeons Lehigh Offense, Which Leads To A 20-10 Bison Victory

Chuck Burton — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:48:21 +0000

It was, depending on your perspective, either the roughest Lehigh offensive performance of the season, or the greatest Bucknell defensive performance of the year.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Football Conference Game Previews: Week of 11/9/2019

Chuck Burton — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 11:32:06 +0000

Holy Cross will be trying to cement their hold on the top of the Patriot League standings when they host Lafayette this weekend. They could clinch at least a share of the title and FCS Playoff autobid if they win and Lehigh loses at Bucknell.

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A “Family Reunion”, Of Sorts, As Lehigh Faces Off Against Bucknell

Chuck Burton — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 08:27:09 +0000

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. That will not be the case this weekend, as Cecchini and Gilmore have more than two decades of awareness of one another and their tendencies. It should have the feel of a brotherly fight.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Previews, How To Watch: Week of 10/26/2019

Chuck Burton — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:08:27 +0000

The Patriot League sees Fordham with a week off and features six conference members in action. Lehigh looks to get their conference record to 3-0, Holy Cross looks to keep pace and remain undefeated in league play, and Lafayette and Bucknell will do battle to see who can remain in the title race.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Previews, How To Watch: Week of 10/19/2019

Chuck Burton — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:58:05 +0000

This week, an unlikely battle for first place in the Patriot League is on the line in the Bronx, and Lafayette and Georgetown battle it out to see if they can get themselves into the league title race.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Previews And Streaming Links: Week of 10/12/2019

Chuck Burton — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:35:25 +0000

It's a week with two Patriot League/Ivy League matchups and two Patriot conference matchups, as Fordham and Georgetown face off against one another in a battle to who can join Lehigh and Holy Cross atop the league standings.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Previews And Streaming Links: Week of 10/5/2019

Chuck Burton — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 16:42:00 +0000

Two enormous conference games loom this week, including one of the better Patriot League rivalry games in Lehigh at Colgate. Holy Cross at Bucknell also kicks off league play for both teams.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Previews: Week of 9/28/2019

Chuck Burton — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 14:25:24 +0000

League play starts next week, but the teams of the Patriot League need some help in out-of-conference this week if at all possible. As a conference, the Patriot League is a combined 4-20 out of conference, with one of those wins coming against a Division III school. With an FBS school, several daunting Ivies, and a CAA school, fans of Patriot League schools are hoping for upsets this week.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Previews: Week of 9/14/2019

Chuck Burton — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 15:08:20 +0000

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 week Colgate hopes to make it a second when they face William and Mary on the road. NEC, Big Sky, and even a D-III opponent graces the Patriot League schedule this week.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Previews: Week of 9/7/2019

Chuck Burton — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:15:08 +0000

0-2 Colgate, who lost two extremely challenging games to Villanova and FBS Air Force to start the season, earn a well-deserved bye week, while the rest of the Patriot League enters action looking to achieve their first victories of the season. As a conference, the Patriot League is a combined 0-8 to start the year.

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College Sports Journal Patriot League Game Previews: Week of 8/31/2019

Chuck Burton — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:59:45 +0000

Colgate, who hosted Villanova in Week 0, continues their Theater of Pain tour this week as they travel out to Air Force to take on the Falcons. The rest of the Patriot League kicks off their season this Saturday with a full slate of games

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College Sports Journal Conference Previews: Patriot League

Chuck Burton — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:40:12 +0000

The 2018 Patriot League football produced two tiers of teams. The first tier was Colgate, who had the best defense in FCS, gave a bowl team all they could handle (Army-West Point), and upset perennial FCS powerhouse James Madison before falling to the eventual FCS National Champions North Dakota State. The second tier was... the other six teams of the Patriot League, who all ended with records under .500. In 2019, can anybody get to the Colgate tier?

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2019 NCAA Division I College Football Team Previews: Bucknell Bison

Chuck Burton — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:05:35 +0000

A brutal 1-10 season saw the end of the Joe Susan era at Bucknell, with the Bison hiring former Valparaiso head coach and Patriot League assistant coach and player Dave Cecchini to take over the reins of the program.

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