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1909 college football season

1909 IAAUS football season
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Tennessee football program
Total # of teams 74
Regular season September 25–November 25
Champions Yale Bulldogs
Heisman Not awarded until 1935
1909 Western Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Minnesota $ 3 0 0     6 1 0
Chicago 4 1 1     4 1 2
Illinois 3 1 0     5 2 0
Wisconsin 2 1 1     3 1 1
Indiana 1 3 0     4 3 0
Northwestern 1 3 0     1 3 1
Iowa 0 1 0     2 4 1
Purdue 0 4 0     2 5 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1909 Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Colorado $ 3 0 0     6 0 0
Colorado College 2 1 0     5 2 0
Colorado Mines 0 2 0     3 3 0
Colorado Agricultural 0 2 0     1 2 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1909 college football independents records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Washington         7 0 0
Virginia         7 1 0
Montana         6 0 1
North Carolina A&M         6 1 0
Florida         6 1 1
Clemson         6 3 0
North Carolina         5 2 0
Utah         4 1 0
Washington State         4 1 0
Oregon Agricultural         4 2 1
USC         3 1 2
Oregon         3 2 0
Maryland         2 5 0
1909 Missouri Valley football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Missouri $ 4 0 1     7 0 1
Kansas 3 1 0     8 1 0
Drake 2 1 0     6 1 0
Iowa 1 3 1     2 4 1
Nebraska 0 2 1     3 3 2
Iowa State 0 2 1     4 3 1
Washington (MO) 0 2 0     3 4 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1909 SAIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
VPI + 4 0 0     6 1 0
Virginia + 3 0 0     7 1 0
George Washington 1 1 0     1 3 0
William & Mary 1 1 0     6 4 0
Georgetown 1 2 0     3 2 0
Richmond 1 4 0     3 5 2
Davidson 0 1 0     3 4 2
  • + – Conference co-champions
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

The 1909 IAAUS football season was the first for the 3-point field goal, which had previously been worth 4 points. The season ran from Saturday, September 25, until Thanksgiving Day, November 25, although a few games were played on the week before.

The 1909 season was also one of the most dangerous in the history of college football. The third annual survey by the Chicago Tribune at season's end showed that 10 college players had been killed and 38 seriously injured in 1909, up from six fatalities and 14 maimings in 1908.

Schools in the Midwest competed in the Western Conference, now called the Big Ten, consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin and Chicago. Iowa was also a member of the Missouri Valley Conference, which included future Big 12 teams Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, as well as Drake and Washington University in St. Louis. In California, intercollegiate football programs (such as those of Stanford University and the University of California) had been discontinued after the 1905 season, and rugby was the autumn intercollegiate sport.


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