1909 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team

The 1909 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology—now known as Carnegie Mellon University—as an independent during the 1909 college football season. Led by Edwin N. Snitjer in his first and only season as head coach, Carnegie Tech compiled a record of 5–3–1.

1909 Carnegie Tech Tartans football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
CaptainBilly Hittner
Home stadiumLeeds Field
1909 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    10 0 0
Lafayette    7 0 1
Franklin & Marshall    9 1 0
Harvard    9 1 0
Penn State    5 0 2
Washington & Jefferson    8 1 1
Springfield Training School    5 1 0
NYU    6 1 1
Ursinus    6 1 1
Penn    7 1 2
Trinity (CT)    6 1 2
Dartmouth    5 1 2
Fordham    5 1 2
Princeton    6 2 1
Pittsburgh    6 2 1
Carlisle    8 3 1
Colgate    5 2 1
Brown    7 3 1
Geneva    4 2 0
Carnegie Tech    5 3 1
Vermont    4 2 2
Lehigh    4 3 2
Army    3 2 0
Villanova    3 2 0
Dickinson    4 4 1
Syracuse    4 5 1
Bucknell    3 4 2
Boston College    3 4 1
Cornell    3 4 1
Rhode Island State    3 4 0
Rutgers    3 5 1
Wesleyan    3 5 1
Holy Cross    2 4 2
Swarthmore    2 5 0
Drexel    1 5 3
Tufts    2 6 0
Amherst    1 6 1
Temple    0 4 1

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Westminster (PA)
W 12–0[1]
October 94:00 p.m.Waynesburg
  • Leeds Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 18–03,000[2]
October 163:00 p.m.Western Reserve
  • Leeds Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 6–53,000[3][4]
October 233:00 p.m.Denison
  • Leeds Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
T 0–0[5][6]
October 303:00 p.m.Lehigh
  • Leeds Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 11–18[7][8]
November 63:00 p.m.Franklin & Marshall
  • Leeds Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 11–55,000[9][10][11]
November 13at MariettaMarietta, OHL 0–132,000[12][13]
November 20at AlleghenyMeadville, PAW 10–0[14][15]
November 253:00 p.m.Colgate
  • Leeds Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 6–38[16][17]

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References

  1. "Westminster Lost To Carnegie Tech". New Castle Herald. New Castle, Pennsylvania. October 4, 1909. p. 2. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  2. "Waynesburg College Is Beaten By Tech Team". The Pittsburgh Sunday Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 10, 1909. p. 15. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  3. "Tech Ready For Reserves". The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 16, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  4. "Western Reserves Lose To Carnegie Tech Team". The Pittsburgh Sunday Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1909. p. 18. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. "Tech And Denison To Play This Afternoon". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 23, 1909. p. 10. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Denison And Tech Played With No Score". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 23, 1909. p. 20. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Plaid Eleven Is Ready To Meet Lehigh Team". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 30, 1909. p. 8. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. "Carnegie Tech Falls Before Lehigh Eleven". The Pittsburgh Sunday Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1909. p. 15. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  9. "Carnegie Tech Confident Over Result of To-Day's Game". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 6, 1909. p. 8. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  10. "First Defeat for F. and M.: Her Fine Record Broken by Carnegie". The Daily New Era. November 8, 1909. p. 7 via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Their First Defeat". The Lancaster Morning Journal. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. November 9, 1909. p. 4. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  12. "Tech Ready For Marietta". The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 13, 1909. p. 10. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  13. "Tech Is Beaten By Marietta Team". The Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 14, 1909. p. 19. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  14. "Tech Team Leaves To-Day". The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 19, 1909. p. 10. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  15. "Allegheny Holds Tech To Ten-Nothing Score". The Pittsburgh Sunday Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 21, 1909. p. 15. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  16. "Carnegie Tech Team Ready For Colgate". The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 25, 1909. p. 14. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  17. "Colgate's Classy Warriors Overwhelm Carnegie Tech". The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 26, 1909. p. 10. Retrieved September 17, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  18. "Carnegie Mellon Year-By-Year scores" (PDF). cmu.athletics.com. Retrieved September 24, 2019.


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