The Rivalry (Lafayette–Lehigh)

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The Rivalry is an American college football rivalry game played annually between the Patriot League teams: the Lafayette Leopards football of Lafayette College and the Lehigh Mountain Hawks football of Lehigh University. It is the most-played football rivalry in the nation and is the longest uninterrupted rivalry game. As of 2025, The Rivalry has been played 161 times since 1884 with only two interruptions, one in 1896 due to a dispute over a Lafayette player also playing professional baseball, and in 2020 due to COVID-19 issues. The colleges' football teams met twice annually until 1901 (except 1891, when they played three games, and 1896, when they did not play at all). The two institutions are located seventeen miles apart in the Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania. Despite popular belief, Harvard and Yale did not play The Game in four separate years during The Rivalry's streak of 159 consecutive games. Furthermore, Lehigh and Lafayette met twice per season in 1943 and 1944 during...

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