1909 Penn Quakers football team

1909 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–2
Head coach
CaptainAllie Miller
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1908
1910 →
1909 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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

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]

  1. ^ a b "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.