Lehigh Mountain Hawks football
2025 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
First season	1884; 141 years ago
Athletic director	Joe Sterrett
Head coach	Kevin Cahill 2nd season, 10–12 (.455)
Stadium	Goodman Stadium (capacity: 16,000)
Field surface	Grass
Location	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.[a]
NCAA division	Division I FCS
Conference	Patriot League
All-time record	650–568–46 (.532)
Claimed national titles	1 (1977 Div II)
Conference titles	13
Rivalries	Lafayette (rivalry)
Current uniform
Colors	Brown and white[1]
Website	LehighSports.com

The Lehigh Mountain Hawks football program represents Lehigh University in college football. Lehigh competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level as members of the Patriot League.^[2] The Mountain Hawks play their home games at Goodman Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tom Gilmore was the team's head coach from 2019 to 2022; he resigned following the 2022 season with a cumulative Lehigh coaching record of 9–27.^[3] Lehigh has won 13 Patriot League championships, the most recent of which was in 2024.

The program ranks 40th all-time in terms of wins with 680 out of 1,312 games played for a winning percentage of 56 percent. In the modern era since 1945, Lehigh has won at a 60 percent pace. The program's nationally-recognized rivalry with Lafayette in neighboring Easton in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, known as The Rivalry, is the longest-standing rivalry in all of college football with 160 games played since 1884.^[4][5][6][7]

The Lehigh football program began in 1883, when student J. S. Robeson organized a football team to play against the University of Pennsylvania's sophomore class team. Athlete and future journalist Richard Harding Davis was a part of that squad. "J. S. Robeson is the father of football at Lehigh," Davis was quoted as saying in Lehigh Quarterly in 1891. "It was he who induced the sophomores at the University of Pennsylvania to send their eleven up to play an eleven from the class of '86 on December 8th, 1884, and it was he who captained the Varsity team the following year," Davis said.^[8]

In 1884, Lehigh's intercollegiate team was formed, and Lafayette team captain Theodore Welles immediately approached Robeson to challenge them, establishing a rivalry which continues to today.

Since 1986, Lehigh has been a charter member of the Patriot League, formerly called the Colonial League. Lehigh has won thirteen Patriot League titles and has played in 20 postseason games, winning 10 of the contests. Along the way, Lehigh has won a Division II National Championship (1977) and has been national runner up in the I-AA tournament in 1979.

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