LEHIGH SEASON IN REVIEW: Growing Pains In 2-9 Season of Refocus https://www.college-sports-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/LehighHC2023.jpg The rebuilding year of 2023 was not easy, to be sure. But to close observers, among the rough seas were some encouraging signs for the years to come, thr...

Sorry, but I disagree. I prefer watching football in the afternoon and enjoying the ability to tailgate before and after the game. Moreover, while adding lights is the easy part, the difficult part is managing a wide open area of fields, parking lots, trees and roads in the dark. Goodman's setting ...

And two years earlier in late November '76, an 8-1 Colgate played a 10-0 Rutgers at the new Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands on an ABC East Coast regional prime time broadcast. Rutgers held on for a 17-9 victory, to finish 11-0 (no bowl) and run its winning streak to 18 games. The last loss was th...

Interesting that there was no Colgate or Delaware joining with the formation of 1-AA in 1978 . . . Colgate remained 1-A until 1981. Isn't there validity to the "well known" belief Delaware stayed D2 so Tubby would have an easier path to a national title since most of the heavy hitters mov...

The Richmond Spiders’ Patriot League Tale, Part Three: The Birth of Richmond’s I-AA Home https://www.college-sports-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Richmond1985.jpg Like many things in the history of the NCAA, the survival of the Yankee Conference a a football-only construct was an accident. ...

The Richmond Spiders’ Patriot League Tale, Part Two: The CFA Splits College Football, And Splits Two Rivals https://www.college-sports-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/EasterlingRichmond-2048x1316.jpg Richmond, and their Rivals, William & Mary, were medium sized schools in medium sized ma...

So here's the first part of my massive overcomplicated deep dive into the Richmond football program and it's long, winding journey to the Patriot League. Part I - Divisional Splits Lead To SoCon Divorce Richmond has been a master at surviving – they have been, and continue to be, the spider that can...

Lehigh Brown/White Scrimmage Focuses on Football Fun And Prep For Upcoming Season https://www.college-sports-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/April-20th-2024-30-1536x1153.jpg It was all fun spring football on a Saturday afternoon – a celebration, a gate swinging open for the 2024 season. Read...

Quietly, Lehigh Starts Climbing the Mountain to the 2024 Season https://www.college-sports-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/April-6th-2024-24-1536x1153.jpg Quietly, on a very cold and wet March 19th at six o’clock in the morning, Lehigh’s spring practice officially began for the 2024 season. ...