In their tenth and final year under head coach John Whitehead, the Engineers compiled a 5–6 record.
[1] Marty Horn and Wes Walton were the team captains.
[2] This would be Lehigh's final year as an independent, before joining the Colonial League.
Future league opponents on the Engineers' 1985 schedule included Bucknell, Colgate and Lafayette.
Lehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university's main campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.