1909 Yale Bulldogs football team

1909 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
Conference	Independent
Record	10–0
Head coach	Howard Jones (1st season)
Captain	Ted Coy
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ←  1908 1910  →

1909 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	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
New Hampshire			–					3	–	4	–	0
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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 11–0		[4]
October 2	Syracuse	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 15–0		[5]
October 6	Holy Cross	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 12–0	3,000	[6]
October 9	Springfield Training School	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 36–0	6,000	[7]
October 16	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 17–0		[8]
October 23	Colgate	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 36–0		[9]
October 30	Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 34–0		[10]
November 6	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 23–0		[11]
November 13	Princeton	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 17–0		[12]
November 20	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 8–0		[13]

Roster

• Hamlin Andrus, G
• Henry P. Bingham, QB
• Walter L. Brown, G
• Carroll Cooney, T
• Allan L. Corey, QB
• Ted Coy, FB
• Fred Daly, HB
• Robert C. Deming, FB
• John Field, HB
• Pomeroy T. Francis, C
• French, HB
• Myron Fuller, C
• William Goebel, G
• George Hains, E
• Hall, G
• Henry Hobbs, T
• Henry G. Holt, HB
• Art Howe, QB
• Hyde, C
• James F. Johnson, QB
• John Kilpatrick, E
• Erle O. Kistler, FB
• Theodore Lilley, T
• Walter S. Logan, E
• Messinger, HB
• Effingham B. Morris, C
• Fred J. Murphy, HB
• Theodore C. Naedele
• Parker, T
• Charles H. Paul, T
• Stephen Philbin, HB
• Edward Savage, E
• J. Brooks Spencer
• Adrian Van Sinderen, E
• Daniel G. Tomlinson, T
• Harry Vaughan, E

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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.
14. "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.