1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–0–2
Head coach	Bill Hollenback (1st season)
Captain	Larry Vorhis
Home stadium	New Beaver Field

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
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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Grove City	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 31–0
October 9	vs. Carlisle	Driving Park Wilkes-Barre, PA	T 8–8	8,000–10,000	[2]
October 16	Geneva	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 46–0		[3]
October 23	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 3–3	12,000
November 6	at Bucknell	Lewisburg, PA	W 33–0
November 12	West Virginia	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 40–0
November 25	at Pittsburgh	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	W 37–0	15,000	[4]

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