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The 1987 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Lehigh finished second in the Colonial League.
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Conference | Colonial League |
Record | 5–5–1 (3–1–1 Colonial) |
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Home stadium | Taylor Stadium |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 1 Holy Cross $ | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 11 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lehigh | 3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colgate | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lafayette | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bucknell | 1 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Davidson | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 10 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In their second year under head coach Hank Small, the Engineers compiled a 5–5–1 record.[1]
The Engineers outscored opponents 221 to 201. Lehigh's 3–1–1 conference record placed second in the six-team Colonial League standings.[2]
This was the 74th and final year that Lehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university's main campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[3] The following year, Lehigh would open Goodman Stadium on the Goodman Campus; the former Taylor site is now occupied by Lehigh's business school and arts center.
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 12 | Davidson |
| W 47–0 | [1] | |||
September 19 | at Navy* | W 24–9 | 25,047 | [4] | |||
September 26 | at No. 1 Holy Cross |
| L 6–63 | 12,500 | [5] | ||
October 3 | at William & Mary* | L 27–28 | 5,237 | [6] | |||
October 10 | at Colgate | W 7–6 | 6,200 | [7] | |||
October 17 | at Princeton* | L 15–16 | 13,800 | [8] | |||
October 24 | Delaware* |
| L 24–28 | 14,100 | [9] | ||
October 31 | at Columbia* | W 26–10 | 3,415 | [10] | |||
November 7 | Brown* |
| L 7–10 | 13,300 | [11] | ||
November 14 | at Bucknell | T 21–21 | 4,330 | [12] | |||
November 21 | at Lafayette |
| W 17–10 | 17,000 | [3] | ||
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