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

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]

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.