1909 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1909 Alabama Crimson Tide football
Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1909 record	5–1–2 (4–1–2 SIAA)
Head coach	J. W. H. Pollard
Captain	Derrill Pratt
Home stadium	The Quad Birmingham Fairgrounds

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
Clemson	2	–	2	–	0			6	–	3	–	0
Ole Miss	2	–	3	–	1			4	–	3	–	2
Gordon	1	–	2	–	0			1	–	2	–	0
Mississippi A&M	1	–	3	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Georgia	1	–	4	–	0			1	–	4	–	2
Memphis U. School	0	–	1	–	0			0	–	1	–	0
Mercer	0	–	3	–	0			3	–	4	–	0
Tennessee	0	–	5	–	0			1	–	6	–	2
$ – Conference champion

The 1909 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1909 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 17th overall and 14th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach J. W. H. Pollard, in his fourth year, and played their home games at the University of Alabama Quad in Tuscaloosa and the Birmingham Fairgrounds in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of five wins, one loss and two ties (5–1–2 overall, 4–1–2 in the SIAA).

Defensively, Alabama had six consecutive shutouts to go 5–0–1 before they surrendered their first touchdown against Tulane in their 5–5 tie.^[1] Alabama completed their season with a 12–5 loss to LSU at Birmingham to finish 5–1–2.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 2	Union (TN)*	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	W 16–0
October 9	Howard	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	W 14–0
October 16	Clemson	Birmingham Fairgrounds • Birmingham, AL	W 3–0
October 23	at Ole Miss	Mississippi State Fairgrounds • Jackson, MS (Rivalry)	T 0–0
October 30	at Georgia	Ponce de Leon Park • Atlanta, GA	W 14–0
November 13	at Tennessee	Wait Field • Knoxville, TN (Third Saturday in October)	W 10–0
November 20	at Tulane	First Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA	T 5–5
November 25	LSU	Birmingham Fairgrounds • Birmingham, AL (Rivalry)	L 6–12
*Non-conference game.

• Source: Rolltide.com: 1909 Alabama football schedule^{[2][A 1]}

Roster

Alabama Crimson Tide 1909 roster[1]
	Backs Jere Austill Randall R. Brown Farley Moody Joseph Paul Mudd Thomas W. Palmer Derrill Pratt Adrian Van de Graaff		Ends Robert H. Bumgardner Ewing Carter Broox Cleveland Garrett Clarence S. Hurd Tackles H. W. Arant W. A. Barnes Louis Malone Finlay Owen Garside Gresham		Guards E. D. Greene W. H. Lumley John Miller G. W. Pratt Center C. C. Countess Kicker Everett Wilkinson Coaching staff J. W. H. Pollard – Head coach Hood Craddock – Manager

Notes

1. For the 1909 season, point values were different from those used in contemporary games. In 1909 a touchdown was worth five points, a field goal was worth three points and an extra point (PAT) was worth one point.^[3]

References

General

• "1909 Season Recap" (PDF). RollTide.com. University of Alabama Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Retrieved February 22, 2012.

Specific

1. 1909 Season Recap
2. "1909 Alabama football schedule". RollTide.com. University of Alabama Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
3. "Scoring values". RollTide.com. University of Alabama Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Retrieved November 1, 2014.