1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football
1909 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–0–2
Head coach	Bill Hollenback (1st season);
Captain	Larry Vorhis
Home stadium	New Beaver Field
	Seasons ← 1908 1910 →

1909 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	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
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 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1909 college football season.^[1] The team was coached by Bill Hollenback and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Grove City	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 31–0
October 9	vs. Carlisle	Driving Park Wilkes-Barre, PA	T 8–8	8,000–10,000	^[2]
October 16	Geneva	New Beaver Field State College, PA	W 46–0		^[3]
October 23	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 3–3	12,000
November 6	at Bucknell	Lewisburg, PA	W 33–0
November 12	West Virginia	New Beaver Field State College, PA (rivalry)	W 40–0
November 25	at Pittsburgh	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	W 37–0	15,000	^[4]

^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
^ "State Tied The Indians". The Wilkes-Barre Record. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1910. p. 16. Retrieved September 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Easy For State". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1909. p. 33. Retrieved September 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Exciting Points Abound". The Pittsburgh Post. November 26, 1909. p. 1,4 – via Newspapers.com.

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