A Weekend Unlike Any Other
Lehigh and Lafayette fans packed Yankee Stadium for the 150th playing of The Rivalry. The 48,256 fans in attendance comprised the largest crowd to ever see a college football game at the stadium.
Rivalry 150 weekend began Thursday evening, as Lehigh alums arrived in New York, and continued through Sunday. Among the highlights of the weekend was the lighting of the Empire State Building in Lehigh and Lafayette colors.
Rivalry 150 weekend began Thursday evening, as Lehigh alums arrived in New York, and continued through Sunday. Among the highlights of the weekend was the ringing of the Wall Steet bell on Friday afternoon.
There simply was no escaping the fact, pretty much anywhere in Manhattan, that The Rivalry was in town.
The Lehigh community made its presence known early and often in Manhattan. The Marching 97 performed at locations throughout the city.
The Lehigh community made its presence known early and often in Manhattan. Students gathered before dawn Friday to win camera time on the sets of both Good Morning America.
Lehigh Choral Arts, under the direction of composer-conductor Steven Sametz, the Ronald J. Ulrich Professor of Music, performed Friday night in the Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.
Trustee Joe Perella ’64 was a distinguished panelist on ‘Creating Investor Value.’
Earth Wind & Fire entertained Lehigh alums at the sold-out Brown & White Night concert Friday evening. The event, held at New York’s Terminal 5, attracted more than 1,000 attendees.
The Marching 97 entertained the sold-out Yankee Stadium crowd at halftime.
Players such as Lafayette quarterback Zach Zweizig and Lehigh’s Matt Timochenko ’18—both of whom attended Wilson West Lawn High School—showed that The Rivalry is not just about competition, but respect as well.
Alumni and friends at the Intrepid Air Museum heard from Professors Joachim Grenestedt and Terry Hart '68 -- experts in things that go fast.
Lehigh and Lafayette fans packed Yankee Stadium for the 150th playing of The Rivalry. The 48,256 fans in attendance comprised the largest crowd to ever see a college football game at the stadium.
In late November, the Lehigh family gathered in New York City for the 150th playing of The Rivalry—the storied football grudge match with that school over in Easton that stands alone as the single most played football rivalry series in all of college football.
The game, of course, took center stage on the weekend, as Lehigh and Lafayette supporters filled Yankee Stadium to capacity to witness a historic occasion in college athletics. And even despite the heartbreaking loss (Lafayette won, 27-7), it proved to be an amazing occasion for the Lehigh community—as was the entire weekend surrounding it.
From the parties both formal and informal that began Thursday evening to the academic panels and thoughtful discussions hosted by Lehigh all day Friday, from the ringing of the bell on Wall Street to the Marching 97’s frenzied tour of Manhattan, the Lehigh family enjoyed three days of celebration and camaraderie. It was a truly once-in-a-lifetime event, and a great celebration on the grandest of stages.
In the pages that follow, we take a photographic look back at Rivalry 150 weekend—a weekend that will be remembered fondly by those in attendance for years and years to come.
By Tim Hyland
Photos by Christa Neu and Academic Image
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
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