1909 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0
Head coach
CaptainTed Coy
Home stadiumYale Field
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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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Wesleyan
W 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 Army
W 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 Harvard
W 8–0[13]

References

  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.
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