1990 Lafayette Leopards football team
American college football season
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The 1990 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College during the 1990 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Leopards finished second-to-last in the newly renamed Patriot League.
- Bill Russo (10th season)
- Art Bittel
- Tom Costello
| 1990 Lafayette Leopards football | |
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| Conference | Patriot League |
| Record | 4–7 (1–4 Patriot) |
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| Home stadium | Fisher Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 8 Holy Cross $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bucknell | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colgate | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fordham | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In their tenth year under head coach Bill Russo, the Leopards compiled a 4–7 record.[1] Art Bittel and Tom Costello were the team captains.[2]
The Leopards were outscored 318 to 223. Their 1–4 conference record placed fifth in the six-team Patriot League standings.[3] This was the first year of competition under the Patriot League banner; the league had been known as the Colonial League since 1986.[4]
Lafayette played its home games at Fisher Field on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 8 | Kutztown* | W 32–16 | 4,239 | [5] | |||
| September 15 | Bucknell |
| L 14–24 | [1] | |||
| September 22 | at Yale* | L 17–18 | 6,458 | [6] | |||
| September 29 | Penn* |
| W 20–13 | 8,214 | [7] | ||
| October 6 | at Columbia* | W 41–34 | 4,075 | [8] | |||
| October 13 | Cornell* |
| L 16–38 | 9,852 | [9] | ||
| October 20 | at Army* | L 0–56 | 38,947 | [10] | |||
| October 27 | at No. 13 Holy Cross | L 3–34 | 8,247 | [11] | |||
| November 3 | at Fordham | W 59–14 | 3,894 | [12] | |||
| November 10 | at Colgate | L 7–36 | 1,025 | [13] | |||
| November 17 | Lehigh |
| L 14–35 | 17,651 | [14] | ||
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