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 coach
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
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
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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