1909 Penn Quakers football team

The 1909 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1909 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 7–1–2 record in their first year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Andy Smith.[1] Their only loss was to Michigan by a 12 to 6 score, a game that snapped Penn's 23-game winning streak and marked the first time a Western team had defeated one of the "Big Four" (Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn).[2] Other significant games included a 12 to 0 victory over West Virginia, a 3-3 tie with Penn State, a 29 to 6 victory over Carlisle, and a 17 to 6 victory over Cornell. They outscored their opponents by a combined total of 146 to 38.[1][3] End Harry Braddock was the only Penn player to receive All-America honors in 1909, receiving second-team honors from Walter Camp.[4]

1909 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–2
Head coach
CaptainAllie Miller
Home stadiumFranklin 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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 GettysburgW 20–0
September 29 Ursinus
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–0[5]
October 2 Dickinson
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 18–0
October 9 West Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–0
October 16 Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–5
October 23 Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 3–312,000
October 30 Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 29–6
November 6 Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 6–6[6][7]
November 13 Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–12
November 25 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 17–620,000[8]

References

  1. "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. "Michigan 12; Pennsylvania 6". The Michigan Alumnus. 1910. pp. 130–132.
  3. "1909 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  4. "Six Yale Men on Camp's First Team" (PDF). The New York Times. December 19, 1909.
  5. "Penn Defeated Ursinus 22-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 30, 1909. p. 11 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Tie Score Best Penn and Lafayette Can Do in One Hour's Battle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 7, 1909. p. 13. Retrieved November 7, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Pennsylvania Manages to Stave Off Defeat in Game With Lafayette (continued)". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 7, 1909. p. 21. Retrieved November 7, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. "In Mud and Slush Penn Beats Cornell 17-6: Penn Rises To Occasion and Beats Cornell". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 26, 1909. pp. 1, 13 via Newspapers.com.
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