1909 Lafayette football team

The 1909 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1909 college football season. Lafayette shut out seven of its eight opponents and finished with a 7–0–1 record in their first year under head coach Bob Folwell. Significant games included victories over Princeton (6–0) and Lehigh (21–0). The only blemish on the team's record was a 6–6 tie with Penn. The 1909 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 176 to 6.[1][2] Lafayette fullback George McCaa received recognition on the 1909 College Football All-America Team, as a third-team selection by Walter Camp and a second-team selection by The New York Times.[3][4]

1909 Lafayette football
ConferenceIndependent
1909 record7–0–1
Head coachBob Folwell (1st season)
CaptainArthur Blaicher
Home stadiumMarch Field
1909 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
NYU      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
Lehigh      4 3 2
Army      3 2 0
Villanova      3 2 0
Syracuse      4 5 1
Boston College      3 4 1
Cornell      3 4 1
Rhode Island State      3 4 0
Rutgers      3 5 1
Wesleyan      3 5 1
Drexel      1 2 2
Tufts      2 6 0
Amherst      1 6 1
Temple      0 4 1

References

  1. "1909 Lafayette Leopards Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. "Lafayette Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. "Six Yale Men on Camp's First Team" (PDF). The New York Times. December 19, 1909.
  4. "All-America Team Picked on Form Shown During 1909: Problems Confronting Experts Who Take Up This Thankless and Difficult Task of Choosing the So-Called "Best."" (PDF). The New York Times. November 28, 1909.
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