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1909 Sewanee Tigers football team

1909 Sewanee Tigers football
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SIAA champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1909 record 6–1 (5–0 SIAA)
Head coach Harris G. Cope
Assistant coach Henry D. Phillips
Assistant coach Edward Dillon
Captain Silas Williams
Home stadium McGee Field
Seasons
← 1908
1910 →
1909 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Sewanee $ 4 0 0     6 1 0
LSU 3 1 0     6 2 0
Vanderbilt 3 1 0     7 3 0
Alabama 4 1 2     5 1 2
Auburn 5 2 0     5 2 0
Georgia Tech 5 2 0     7 2 0
Howard 2 2 0     5 2 1
Mississippi 2 3 1     4 3 2
Clemson 1 2 0     6 3 0
Mississippi A&M 1 3 0     5 4 0
Georgia 1 4 0     1 4 2
The Citadel 0 1 1     4 3 2
Mercer 0 3 0     3 5 0
Tennessee 0 5 0     1 6 2
  • $ – Conference champion
1 2 Total
SW Presb. 0 0 0
Sewanee 29 35 64

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1 2 Total
Sewanee 0 0 0
Princeton 8 12 20

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1 2 Total
Sewanee 6 9 15
Georgia Tech 0 0 0

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1 2 Total
Sewanee 9 6 15
LSU 0 6 6
  • Location: Pelican Park
    New Orleans, LA
  • Game attendance: 7,000
  • Referee: Halligan (LSU)

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1 2 Total
Sewanee 6 6 12
Auburn 5 6 11

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1 2 Total
Sewanee 5 11 16
Vanderbilt 0 5 5

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The 1909 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1909 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was coached by Harris G. Cope in his 1st year as head coach, compiling a record of 6–1 (5–0 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 160 to 42 to win the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title. Sewanee beat the previous season's champions LSU and Auburn, and upset rival Vanderbilt, handing the school its first loss to a Southern team in six years.

The Tigers hired new head coach Harris Cope, a former Sewanee quarterback. Assisting Cope was former Sewanee fullback and guard Henry D. Phillips; and former Princeton quarterback Edward Dillon.

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The season opened with a 64–0 win over Southwestern Presbyterian. "The players suffered from the heat and dust." The first score came after three minutes had past, when Ed Finlay ran 60 yards for a touchdown.

The starting lineup was Williams (left end), Faulkenberry (left tackle), Cheape (left guard), Juhan (center), Cox (right guard), Moise (right tackle), Finlay (right end), Browne (quarterback), Myers (left halfback), Lanier (right halfback), Hawkins (fullback).

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Sewanee was defeated by eastern power Princeton 20–0. Princeton's F. B. Read scored first on a 10-yard touchdown through Sewanee's right side, five minutes into the first quarter. Later, Princeton got a safety when Lionel Moise fell on his own punt in the endzone. Later still, Read had a 65-yard touchdown run. The final touchdown was a short run by F. T. Dawson.


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