Lehigh won the Middle Three Conference championship and the inaugural small-college Lambert Cup.
In their 12th year under head coach Bill Leckonby, the Engineers compiled an 8–1 record, defeating both of their conference opponents.
[2] In December, the Engineers were the first-ever recipients of the Lambert Cup, an award for the season's best small-college football team in the East.
Lehigh was honored alongside Navy, which won the large-college Lambert Trophy; both were lauded as proof that a university could field a competitive football team without compromising its academic standards.
[3] Lehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.