1909 Vermont Green and Gold football team

1909 Vermont Green and Gold football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–2–2
Head coach
Home stadiumCentennial Field
Seasons
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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
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 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1909 college football season. In their only year under head coach Ray B. Thomas, the team compiled a 4–2–2 record.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 2at Dartmouth
T 0–0[1]
October 9St. Lawrence
W 16–0[2]
October 16at Wesleyan
T 5–5[3]
October 23at Cornell
L 0–16[4]
October 27Norwich
  • Centennial Field
  • Burlington, VT
W 11–0[5]
October 30New Hampshire
  • Centennial Field
  • Burlington, VT
W 11–0[6][7]
November 6at Amherst
W 5–0[8]
November 13at Brown
L 0–17[9]

References

  1. ^ "Many trick plays used but Dartmouth fails to score on Vermont". The Baltimore Sun. October 3, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Easy victory for Vermont". The Burlington Free Press. October 11, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Broke even on score". St. Albans Daily Messenger. October 18, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Triple pass in Cornell victory". Democrat and Chronicle. October 24, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Vermont trims Norwich". Vermont Watchman and State Journal. October 28, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Vermont wins last home game". The Burlington Free Press. November 1, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Vermont, 11; New Hampshire, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 3. December 1909. pp. 53–54. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ "Vermont 5, Amherst 0". The Boston Globe. November 7, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Brown wins a game, Vermont no match for Providence eleven". New York Tribune. November 14, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.