1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

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1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football
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ConferenceIndependent
Record5–0–2
Head coach
Captain Larry Vorhis
Home stadium New Beaver Field
Seasons
  1908
1910  
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

The 1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1909 college football season. [1] The team was coached by Bill Hollenback and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Grove City W 31–0
October 9vs. Carlisle
T 8–88,000–10,000 [2]
October 16 Geneva
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 46–0 [3]
October 23at Penn T 3–312,000
November 6at Bucknell Lewisburg, PA W 33–0
November 12 West Virginia
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 40–0
November 25at Pittsburgh W 37–015,000 [4]

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References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. "State Tied The Indians". The Wilkes-Barre Record . Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1910. p. 16. Retrieved September 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  3. "Easy For State". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1909. p. 33. Retrieved September 24, 2021 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. "Exciting Points Abound". The Pittsburgh Post. November 26, 1909. p. 1,4 via Newspapers.com.