1909 Penn Quakers football team

1909 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–1–2
Head coach	Andy Smith (1st season)
Captain	Allie Miller
Home stadium	Franklin 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
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 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1909 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 7–1–2 record in their first year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Andy Smith. Their only loss was to Michigan by a 12 to 6 score, a game that snapped Penn's 23-game winning streak and marked the first time a Western team had defeated one of the "Big Four" (Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn). Other significant games included a 12 to 0 victory over West Virginia, a 3-3 tie with Penn State, a 29 to 6 victory over Carlisle, and a 17 to 6 victory over Cornell. They outscored their opponents by a combined total of 146 to 38. End Harry Braddock was the only Penn player to receive All-America honors in 1909, receiving second-team honors from Walter Camp.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Gettysburg	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 20–0
September 29	Ursinus	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 22–0
October 2	Dickinson	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 18–0
October 9	West Virginia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 12–0
October 16	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 13–5
October 23	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 3–3	12,000
October 30	Carlisle	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 29–6
November 6	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 6–6
November 13	Michigan	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 6–12
November 25	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 17–6	20,000