1909 Dartmouth football team

1909 Dartmouth football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–1–2
Head coach	W. H. Lillard (1st season)
Captain	Clark Tobin

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 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1909 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach W. H. Lillard, the team compiled a 5–1–2 record, shut out six of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 89 to 18. Clark Tobin was the team captain.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 29	Massachusetts	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH	W 23–0
October 2	Vermont	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH	T 0–0	[2]
October 9	Bowdoin	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH	W 15–0
October 16	Williams	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH	W 18–0
October 23	at Amherst	Amherst, MA	W 12–0
October 30	Holy Cross	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH	W 12–0
November 6	at Princeton	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	T 6–6	[3]
November 13	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 3–12

References

1. "Dartmouth Football 1880-1939". Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
2. "Many trick plays used but Dartmouth fails to score on Vermont". The Baltimore Sun. October 3, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Dartmouth 6, Princeton 6". The Boston Globe. November 7, 1909. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.