1909 Colgate football team

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
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 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1909 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach R. M. Brown, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record. E. T. MacDonnell was the team captain.^[1]^[2] The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 2		at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	L 0–14
October 9		Hamilton	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 48–0
October 16		St. Lawrence	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 58–0
October 23		at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–36	^[3]
October 30		Trinity (CT)	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	T 0–0	^[4]
November 6		at Rochester	Rochester, NY	W 21–0
November 13		at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 6–5
November 25	3:00 p.m.	at Carnegie Tech	Leeds Field Pittsburgh, PA	W 38–6	^[5]^[6]

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