1909 Georgia Bulldogs football team

1909 Georgia Bulldogs football

Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1909 record	1-4-2 (1-4-2 SIAA)
Head coach	James Coulter & Frank Dobson
Home stadium	Herty Field

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 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1909 college football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 1-4-2 record. The offensive production was quite low, with only 14 points being scored over the course of seven games. The only victory was over Tennessee.^[1] Georgia suffered its fifth straight loss to Georgia Tech and also lost to rivals Clemson and Auburn. In 1909, the team had an unusual situation with the first-ever co-head coaches at Georgia, James Coulter & Frank Dobson. 1909 was the only year either of them served as head coach at Georgia.

The first decade of the 1900s was not kind to Georgia. The Bulldogs played 70 games and had a losing record of 24-38-8, a winning percentage of just .400. This decade was the worst decade in Georgia football history. There were also seven different head coaches during the ten-year period.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
10/09/1909	at The Citadel	College Park Stadium • Charleston, SC	T 0-0
10/16/1909	Davidson	Herty Field • Athens, GA	T 0-0
10/23/1909	at Tennessee	Knoxville, TN	W 3-0
10/30/1909	vs. Alabama	Atlanta, GA	L 0-14
11/10/1909	vs. Clemson	Augusta, GA	L 0-5
11/20/1909	at Georgia Tech	Atlanta (Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate)	L 6-12
11/25/1909	at Auburn	Montgomery, Alabama	L 5-17
*Non-conference game. Homecoming.

Sources

Georgia Football Through the Years
Reed, Thomas Walter (1949). Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. History of the University of Georgia; Chapter XVII: Athletics at the University from the Beginning Through 1947 imprint pages 3496-3497

References

↑ "1909 Georgia Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.

Georgia Bulldogs football

Venues	Herty Field (1892–1910) Sanford Field (1911–1928) Sanford Stadium (1929–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Auburn: Deep South's Oldest Rivalry Clemson Florida Georgia Tech: Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate South Carolina Tennessee Vanderbilt

Culture & lore	All games Hairy Dawg Uga "Glory, Glory" Georgia Redcoat Marching Band First forward pass 1927 Yale game

People	Head coaches Steadman V. Sanford Larry Munson Morgan Blake NFL draftees Starting quarterbacks Statistical leaders

Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

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1909 Georgia Bulldogs football team

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