1909 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1909 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0
Head coach
CaptainTed Coy
Home stadiumYale 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 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1909 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0 record, shut out every opponent, and outscored them by a total of 209 to 0.[1] Howard Jones was the team's head coach, and Ted Coy was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1909 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Six Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1909 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: fullback Ted Coy; halfback Stephen Philbin; end John Kilpatrick; center Carroll Cooney; guard Hamlin Andrus; and tackle Henry Hobbs.[3]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29WesleyanW 11–0[4]
October 2Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 15–0[5]
October 6Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–03,000[6]
October 9Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–06,000[7]
October 16at ArmyW 17–0[8]
October 23Colgate
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–0[9]
October 30Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–0[10]
November 6Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0[11]
November 13Princeton
W 17–0[12]
November 20at HarvardW 8–0[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1909 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Yale Beats Wesleyan: Scores Two Touchdowns and One Goal in Snappy Game". New York Tribune. September 30, 1909. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Spectacular Plays in Yale's Victory". The New York Times. October 3, 1909. p. 45 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale by 12 to 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Mass. October 7, 1909. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Hobbs Stars for Yale". The New York Times. October 10, 1909. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale Beats Army Team: Blue Piles Up Score in Second Half". New York Tribune. October 17, 1909. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale Easy Victor: Two Goals by Coy; Blue Piles Up Big Total Against Colgate Eleven". New York Tribune. October 24, 1909. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Coy and Murphy: They Distinguish Themselves in Football Game With Amherst". The Sun. New York, N.Y. October 31, 1909. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale Shows a Strong Hand". The Sun. New York, N.Y. November 7, 1909. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Yale Defeats Princeton, 17-0". The New York Times. November 14, 1909. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale Triumphs at Harvard; Coy's Two Goals From Field". The New York Times. November 21, 1909. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.