1990 Lafayette Leopards football team

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.

1990 Lafayette Leopards football
ConferencePatriot League
1990 record4–7 (1–4 Patriot)
Head coach
Captains
  • Art Bittel
  • Tom Costello
Home stadiumFisher Field
1990 Patriot League football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll

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
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 8 Kutztown*
W 32–16 4,239 [5]
September 15 Bucknell
  • Fisher Field
  • Easton, PA
L 14–24 [1]
September 22 at Yale*
L 17–18 6,458 [6]
September 29 Penn*
  • Fisher Field
  • Easton, PA
W 20–13 8,214 [7]
October 6 at Columbia*
W 41–34 4,075 [8]
October 13 Cornell*
  • Fisher Field
  • Easton, PA
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]

References
  1. "Lafayette Football 1963-1990". 2019 Lafayette Football Record Book (PDF). Easton, Pa.: Lafayette College. p. 104. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. "Team Captains 1882-2019". 2019 Lafayette Football Record Book (PDF). Easton, Pa.: Lafayette College. p. 97. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. "Football All-Time Year-by-Year Results". Patriot League Football Record Book (PDF). Center Valley, Pa.: Patriot League. 2020. p. 2. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  4. Meixell, Ted (September 6, 1990). "Holy Cross Unanimous Choice for Patriot Title". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C6 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Meixell, Ted (September 9, 1990). "Lafayette Outpoints KU 32-16". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Berlet, Bruce (September 23, 1990). "Yale Survives Scare, 18-17". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. pp. C8, C11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Meixell, Ted (September 30, 1990). "Lafayette Defense Tough in the Clutch". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Meixell, Ted (October 7, 1990). "Lafayette Hangs on to Outscore Columbia 41-34". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C4 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Meixell, Ted (October 14, 1990). "Lafayette 'Horrible' in 38-16 Defeat". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Meixell, Ted (October 21, 1990). "Army Trounces Lafayette 56-0". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Meixell, Ted (October 28, 1990). "Holy Cross Too Much for Lafayette". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. Meixell, Ted (November 4, 1990). "Leopards Crush Fordham 59-14". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C4 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Goodwin, Norton Lead Colgate over Lafayette". The Daily Item. Sunbury, Pa. Associated Press. November 12, 1990. pp. C9, C15 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. Meixell, Ted (November 18, 1990). "Lehigh's Torain Writes Perfect Ending to Career; Engineers Dominate Trenches as Leopards Show Youth". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
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