1952 Lehigh Engineers football team
American college football season
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The 1952 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1952 college football season. Lehigh tied for the Middle Three Conference championship. In their third year under head coach Bill Leckonby, the Engineers compiled a 5–4 record.[1] Lehigh only played one of its Middle Three opponents, beating Lafayette; co-champion Rutgers also beat Lafayette but did not face Lehigh, giving them identical 1–0 conference records. Bill Kitsos was the team captain.[2] Lehigh played home games at Taylor Stadium on the university's main campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
ConferenceMiddle Three Conference
Record5–4 (1–0 Middle Three)
Headcoach
- Bill Leckonby (7th season)
CaptainBill Kitsos
| 1952 Lehigh Engineers football | |
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Middle Three co-champion | |
| Conference | Middle Three Conference |
| Record | 5–4 (1–0 Middle Three) |
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| Captain | Bill Kitsos |
| Home stadium | Taylor Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh + | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rutgers + | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 27 | at NYU* | L 7–10 | 5,000 | [3] | |||
| October 4 | Delaware* | L 6–7 | 7,000 | [4] | |||
| October 11 | at Buffalo* | W 26–7 | 2,000 | [5] | |||
| October 18 | Gettysburg* |
| W 15–7 | 7,000 | [6] | ||
| October 25 | Boston University *
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| L 20–29 | 9,000 | [7] | ||
| November 1 | at Bucknell* | L 6–28 | 5,500 | [8] | |||
| November 8 | Muhlenberg* |
| W 26–13 | 7,500 | [9] | ||
| November 15 | Carnegie Tech* |
| W 26–6 | 4,000 | [10] | ||
| November 22 | at Lafayette | W 14–7 | 15,000 | [11] | |||
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