[2]. In football, Lehigh competes in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). In 2017, the Marching 97 was invited to march in London's New Year's Parade.[13][14]. Prior to coming to Memphis, he was the Associate Head Coach and Special Teams Coordinator at Rice University. Football games are well-attended at Lehigh's Goodman Stadium which has been voted the best place to watch a Patriot League football game for the past six years.

The Mountain Hawks are led by first-year head coach Tom Gilmore and play their home games at Goodman Stadium. Steel and the Bethlehem community generally, money and resources consequently dried up, forcing the University to consider more practical alternatives, such as leaving the team for the time being in the now older Taylor Stadium. It is composed of 12 ranks of 8 members and one drum major to conduct the entire band. They earned the League's automatic bid into the FCS playoffs where they lost in the first round to New Hampshire. The 2015 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team represented Lehigh University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Pac-12 is joining the rest of the Power 5 conferences and will play a seven-game fall college football season beginning Nov. 6. They have dropped Princeton from their schedule and will be facing Wagner instead for their fifth game of the season.[12]. Bobby Weaver is a former Lehigh Engineer wrestler who won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Lembo enjoyed success in each of his three stops as a head coach and accumulated a 112–65 career record over a 15-year period. The 2013 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team represented Lehigh University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. (...) The bowl itself was constructed in the 1960s: an era of expansion and visionary plans for the school, working in close collaboration with partner Bethlehem Steel. Athlete and future journalist Richard Harding Davis was a part of that squad. Whitehead served as an assistant under Dunlap and success continued. The 150th meeting of The Rivalry took place in 2014 and was played at Yankee Stadium in NYC. The band has performed at Carnegie Hall, Drown Hall, and at the New York World's Fair, as well as at Yankee Stadium in 2014 for the 150th meeting of the Lehigh-Lafayette game.

The team was led by fifth-year head coach Andy Coen and played its home games at Goodman Stadium. COVID-19 test results that triggered Georgia State-Charlotte postponement read incorrectly. The game was not played in 1896. His teams were also nationally ranked in three of the five years.

The Mountain Hawks men's basketball team is best known for its first-round game in the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as a #15 seed on March 16, 2012 against the #2 seed Duke Blue Devils. Lehigh went outside of the program to hire Andy Coen. In November 2008, just before the 144th game against Lafayette, the mascot was given the name "Clutch." That Has Changed", "NCAA basketball: Lehigh pulls off monumental upset of Duke", "2016 All-Patriot League Football Teams and Major Awards Announced", "Lehigh Wrestling Wins First EIWA Team Title Since 2006, Breaks Cornell's Streak", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lehigh_Mountain_Hawks&oldid=961525220, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 9 June 2020, at 00:14. The program has also enjoyed seven FCS playoff appearances: 1980, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2010 and 2011.[6]. Today, the Marching 97 is entirely student-ran and is one of the country's only marching bands to do so. The Mountain Hawks were led by sixth-year head coach Andy Coen and played their home games at Goodman Stadium. Lehigh competes as the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level as members of the Patriot League. † – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor. The discrepancy between the number of years and the number of games is due to the fact that the teams played each other twice a year prior to the turn of the 20th century. Locker rooms and practice fields (Kauffman Fields) are located a short distance from the game field. Lehigh won the 1977 Division II National Championship by defeating Jacksonville State 33-0 in the Pioneer Bowl. Copyright: © 2020 ESPN Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. Hear the audio that matters most to you. Beginning in the 1980s and until 1995, the team used a logo of a train locomotive with an "L" on the front. Lehigh also received nine first team honors for senior quarterback Nick Shafnisky, sophomore running back Dom Bragalone, junior wide receiver and return specialist Gatlin Casey, junior wide receiver Troy Pelletier, senior offensive tackle Zach Duffy, sophomore place kicker and punter Ed Mish, and senior linebacker Colton Caslow. Lehigh will kick off their season with a home game against Villanova. Despite being a heavy underdog, thanks to C. J. McCollum's 30-point heroics, the Mountain Hawks pulled off the stunning upset, defeating the Blue Devils 75-70 and making it only the sixth time that a 15th seed has defeated a 2nd seed.

Lehigh also earned four second team honors for junior offensive tackle Tim O'Hara, senior offensive tackle Brandon Short, junior defensive lineman Tyler Cavenas, and senior defensive back Brandon Leaks.