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1909 Carlisle Indians football team

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1909 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–3–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumIndian Field
Seasons
← 1908
1910 →
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
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 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1909 college football season. Led by eighth-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians compiled a record of 10–2–1 and outscored opponents 243 to 94.[1] Warner's team ran the single-wing on offense.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 18Steelton YMCA
W 35–0
September 22Lebanon Valley
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 36–0[2]
September 25Villanova
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 9–0
October 2Bucknell
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 48–6[3]
October 9vs. Penn State
T 8–88,000–10,000[4]
October 16vs. SyracuseW 14–11[5][6]
October 23at PittsburghL 3–144,000[7]
October 30at PennL 6–29[8]
November 6at George WashingtonW 9–5[9][10]
November 13Gettysburg
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 35–0[11]
November 202:40 p.m.vs. Brown
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
L 8–21[12][13]
November 25at Saint LouisW 32–012,000[14][15]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "1909 Carlisle Indians Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ "lebanon valley college football (1897)" (PDF).
  3. ^ "1909 Football Schedule - Bucknell University Athletics".
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Houser's Field Goal Wins For Indians". Buffalo Courier. Buffalo, New York. October 17, 1909. p. 53. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Football games played at the Polo Grounds, New York".
  7. ^ "Pitt Puts Redskins to Rout". Pittsburgh Daily Post. October 24, 1909. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Today's Tidbit... The Umpire Strikes Back?".
  9. ^ "Carlisle barely wins". The University Hatchet. November 11, 1909. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  10. ^ "Indians just win". The Washington Herald. November 7, 1909. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "1909 Football Schedule - Gettysburg College Athletics".
  12. ^ "Indians Are Scalped By Brown University". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. November 21, 1909. p. 19. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ^ "Football games played at the Polo Grounds, New York".
  14. ^ "Carlisle Piles Up 32 Against St. Louis Univ". Buffalo Courier. Buffalo, New York. November 26, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ "Where was 1909 Carlisle-St. Louis U. game played?".