1909 Carlisle Indians football team

1909 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–3–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumIndian Field
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
  –   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 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

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
October 9vs. Penn State
T 8–88,000–10,000[3]
October 162:45 p.m.vs. SyracuseW 14–112,500[4][5]
October 23at PittsburghL 3–144,000[6]
October 30at PennL 6–29[7]
November 6at George WashingtonW 9–5[8][9]
November 13Gettysburg
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 35–0
November 202:40 p.m.vs. Brown
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
L 8–21[10][11]
November 25at Saint LouisW 32–012,000[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "1909 Carlisle Indians Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ "lebanon valley college football (1897)" (PDF).
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Indian's Sure Kick Defeats Syracuse in Lively Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. October 17, 1909. p. 17. Retrieved December 26, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Carlisle Redskins Won From Syracuse Eleven". Buffalo Evening News. Buffalo, New York. October 17, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved December 26, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Pitt Puts Redskins to Rout". Pittsburgh Daily Post. October 24, 1909. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Today's Tidbit... The Umpire Strikes Back?".
  8. ^ "Carlisle barely wins". The University Hatchet. November 11, 1909. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ "Indians just win". The Washington Herald. November 7, 1909. Retrieved February 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ "Football games played at the Polo Grounds, New York".
  12. ^ "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.
  13. ^ "Where was 1909 Carlisle-St. Louis U. game played?".