Category: Lafayette Leopards
Lafayette LB Andy Romans Named to All-America Team
Lafayette College senior linebacker Andy Romans honors the game of football by the way he plays. There's no neutral or reverse in his gearbox.
On Wednesday, football honored Romans. He was named to the Associated Press Football Championship Subdivisi… more »
Lafayette Football Ends Season with Loss to Lehigh
The 2008 Lafayette Leopards football season started out strong with several exciting wins and some impressive performances, but their season was ultimately spoiled by devastating losses against Holy Cross and the rival Lehigh Mountain Hawks.
The Leop… more »
Lafayette's Romans Top Defensive Player in Patriot League
CENTER VALLEY - Andy Romans is not always the best interview on the Lafayette football team, but what he does on the field definitely says it all.
The Leopards' 220-pound senior linebacker, the team's leading tackler the last three years, repeated as… more »
Opinion: With Victory over Lafayette, the Wait is Over
Five years, five Lehigh-Laf football games and many brown outs later, Lehigh's football team finally pulled it off: we beat Lafayette!
The much anticipated football game between the two rivals Saturday ended with a win for Lehigh marking a perfect co… more »
Lehigh Wins! Hawks Soar to 31-15 Victory over Rival Leopards
Mountain Hawks beat Lafayette College on the road after four-year losing streak.
Lehigh players, coaches and fans got to rush Fisher Field to celebrate for the first time in eight years Saturday after a 31-15 victory.
The Mountain Hawks' victory w… more »
Leopards Only Looking Ahead
Saturday's loss hurts, but focus is on future.
Frank Tavani was back in his office Sunday afternoon, looking at film.
The Lafayette-Lehigh game, perhaps?
Uh, uh.
The Leopards' head coach, admittedly still reeling a bit from Saturday's 31-15… more »
Young QB Leads Lehigh to Victory over Lafayette
EASTON - What are numbers?
To some, statistics help rate players or coaches' performances, but to others, numbers are meaningless.
Lehigh sophomore quarterback J.B. Clark isn't too concerned about his numbers, especially his stats on the road.… more »
Lehigh Proves its Mettle
Strength: Mountain Hawks don't fold against Lafayette.
The score was Lehigh 17, Lafayette 15. Momentum was changing, and a second-half lead was slipping away -- again. Eighteen minutes remained in the game. Eighteen minutes to either cave in or stand… more »
Mountain Hawks Play Best Game of Season to Dismantle Lafayette
EASTON - Lehigh University coach Andy Coen and the Mountain Hawks can sleep easy.
After losing to rival Lafayette for the past four seasons -- two with Coen in charge -- Lehigh finally has the monkey off its back after a commanding 31-15 victory in t… more »
Lafayette Doing Best to Shake Off Devastating Loss
EASTON - Four weeks after directing what he called "as good a win as I've been involved in in my 23 years here," Lafayette College football coach Frank Tavani said losing to Holy Cross in the closing seconds last Saturday was "as tough a loss as I've be… more »
Lafayette and Lehigh End Season with 144th Meeting
"It's the game we always talk about. You always take each opponent week by week, but in the back of your mind you're always thinking about Lafayette," Lehigh senior safety Brendan VanAckeren said.
After having the Leopards on the backburner all seaso… more »
'Pards Have Been Unpredictable
Which Lafayette will show up against Lehigh?
It may not be totally fair, but neither is it incorrect to say that Lafayette's 2008 football season is defined as much by its losses as by its wins.
The Leopards enter Saturday's 144th meeting with arc… more »
Lafayette Football Players Bracing Themselves for Success
EASTON - Brian Wycinowski never counted on having to relearn how to dress for practice as part of his transition from high school to Division I football at Lafayette College.
Thanks to the Maroon Club's Friends of Lafayette Football, the junior guar… more »
Give Dom a Few Seconds, He’ll Get it Done
WORCESTER — Tom Gilmore received numerous phone calls and e-mails this week from Holy Cross alums telling him that last Saturday’s 27-26 victory over Lafayette ranks right up there with the best HC comebacks of all time.
The Crusaders trailed by six… more »
Brendan Van Ackeren Wants to End Career with Win over Lafayette
This weekend -- especially Saturday -- could either be a lot of fun or a big disappointment for Lehigh University senior safety Brendan Van Ackeren.
Not only do his Mountain Hawks face rival Lafayette College in the teams' 144th meeting on Saturday,… more »