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1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–0–2
Head coach
CaptainLarry Vorhis
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons← 19081910 →
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
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 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1909 college football season. The team was coached by Bill Hollenback and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Grove CityW 31–0
October 9vs. CarlisleT 8–88,000–10,000
October 16Geneva
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 46–0
October 23at PennT 3–312,000
November 6at BucknellLewisburg, PAW 33–0
November 12West Virginia
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 40–0
November 25at PittsburghW 37–015,000

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 icon.
  3. "Easy For State". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1909. p. 33. Retrieved September 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. "Exciting Points Abound". The Pittsburgh Post. November 26, 1909. p. 1,4 – via Newspapers.com.
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