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1909 Dartmouth football team

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1909 Dartmouth football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–1–2
Head coach
CaptainClark Tobin
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 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

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29Massachusetts
W 23–0
October 2Vermont
  • Alumni Oval
  • Hanover, NH
T 0–0[2]
October 9Bowdoin
  • Alumni Oval
  • Hanover, NH
W 15–0
October 16Williams
  • Alumni Oval
  • Hanover, NH
W 18–0
October 23at AmherstAmherst, MAW 12–0
October 30Holy Cross
  • Alumni Oval
  • Hanover, NH
W 12–0
November 6at Princeton
T 6–6[3]
November 13at HarvardL 3–12

References

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  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.