1909 Western Conference football season
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The 1909 Western Conference football season was the fourteenth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1909 college football season.
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minnesota $ | 3 | â | 0 | â | 0 | 6 | â | 1 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago | 4 | â | 1 | â | 1 | 4 | â | 1 | â | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois | 3 | â | 1 | â | 0 | 5 | â | 2 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | 2 | â | 1 | â | 1 | 3 | â | 1 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana | 1 | â | 3 | â | 0 | 4 | â | 3 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | 1 | â | 3 | â | 0 | 1 | â | 3 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 0 | â | 1 | â | 0 | 2 | â | 4 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purdue | 0 | â | 4 | â | 0 | 2 | â | 5 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Season overview
Minnesota was declared the Western Conference champion with an undefeated league record of 3â0, going 6â1 overall. Their only loss was to former conference-mate Michigan, in the first-ever game played for the Little Brown Jug.
After finishing the last two seasons as conference champion, Chicago came in second at 4-1-2 (4-1-1 in league play). Illinois was third at 5-2 (3â1) and Wisconsin fourth with an overall record of 3-1-1 (2â1â1), which rounded out the schools with league records over .500.
Indiana wound up at 4â3, but went 1â3 in conference play; tying Northwestern, who finished overall at 1â3â1.
Iowa and Purdue went winless on the year, but both managed to secure two non-conference victories.
Minnesota
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 25 | Lawrence* | W 25â0 | 3,000 | |||
| October 2 | Iowa |
| W 41â0 | 6,000 | [1] | |
| October 9 | Iowa State* |
| W 18â0 | 2,000 | ||
| October 16 | vs. Nebraska* | Omaha, NE (rivalry) | W 14â0 | 7,000 | ||
| October 30 | Chicago |
| W 20â6 | 26,000 | ||
| November 13 | at Wisconsin | W 34â6 | 7,500 | |||
| November 20 | 1:01 p.m. | Michigan* |
| L 6â15 | 22,000â25,000 | |
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Chicago
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2 | Purdue | W 40â0 | |||||
| October 9 | Indiana |
| W 21â0 | ||||
| October 16 | Illinois |
| W 14â8 | ||||
| October 30 | at Minnesota | L 6â20 | 26,000 | ||||
| November 6 | Northwestern |
| W 34â0 | ||||
| November 13 | at Cornell* |
| T 6â6 | ||||
| November 20 | Wisconsin |
| T 6â6 | ||||
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Illinois
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2 | Millikin* | W 23â0 | ||||||
| October 9 | Kentucky State College* |
| L 2â6 | |||||
| October 16 | at Chicago | L 8â14 | ||||||
| October 30 | Purdue |
| W 24â6 | |||||
| November 6 | Indiana |
| W 6â5 | |||||
| November 13 | at Northwestern | W 35â0 | ||||||
| November 20 | 2:15 p.m. | at Syracuse* | W 17â8 | 7,000 | [2] | |||
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Wisconsin
Indiana
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2 | DePauw* |
| W 28â5 | [3] | ||
| October 9 | at Chicago | L 0â21 | [4] | |||
| October 16 | Lake Forest* |
| W 27â5 | [5] | ||
| October 23 | at Wisconsin | L 3â6 | ||||
| October 30 | 4:00 p.m. | at Saint Louis* | W 30â0 | 4,000 | [6][7] | |
| November 6 | at Illinois | L 5â6 | ||||
| November 20 | Purdue | Bloomington, IN (rivalry) | W 36â3 | [8] | ||
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Northwestern
Iowa
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2 | at Minnesota | L 0â41 | 6,000 | [1] | |
| October 9 | Cornell (IA)* | W 3â0 | [12] | ||
| October 23 | at Nebraska | T 6â6 | [13] | ||
| October 30 | Missouri |
| L 12â13 | [14] | |
| November 6 | at Drake | L 14â17 | 5,000 | [15] | |
| November 13 | Iowa State |
| W 16â0 | [16] | |
| November 20 | at Kansas | L 7â20 | [17][18] | ||
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Purdue
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2 | at Chicago | L 0â40 | |||||
| October 9 | Northwestern | L 5â14 | |||||
| October 16 | DePauw* |
| W 15â12 | ||||
| October 30 | at Illinois | L 6â24 | |||||
| November 6 | Wabash* |
| L 17â18 | ||||
| November 13 | Rose Polytechnic* |
| W 26â3 | ||||
| November 20 | at Indiana |
| L 3â36 | [8] | |||
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Bowl games
No Western Conference schools participated in any bowl games during the 1909 season.
All-American honors
Ends
- Harlan Page, Chicago (WC-3)
Tackles
- James Walker, Minnesota (TC-1)
Centers
- H. E. Farnum, Minnesota (WC-3)
Quarterbacks
- John McGovern, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; TC-1)
- Harlan Page, Chicago (NYT-2)
Key
NCAA recognized selectors for 1909
- WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp[20]
Other selectors
- NYT = The New York Times[21][22]
- TC = Tommy Clark, noted sports writer whose work appeared in several papers[23][24][25][26][27]
- UP = United Press consensus All-American team, based on selections from 22 of "the best football experts." The numbers shown in parentheses reflect the number of voters (out of the total of 22) who selected the person as a first-team All-American.[28]
- AC = The Atlanta Constitution based on aggregating the All-America selections of ten leading Eastern newspapers. The numbers shown in parentheses reflect the number of voters (out of the total of 10) who selected the person as a first-team All-American.[citation needed]
Bold = Consensus All-American[citation needed]
- 1 â First-team selection
- 2 â Second-team selection
- 3 â Third-team selection
All-Western selections
- Harlan Page, End, Chicago (ECP-1, WE)
- James Dean, End, Wisconsin (ECP-2, WE)
- Walter Henry Rademacher, End, Minnesota (ECP-1)
- James Walker, Tackle, Minnesota (ECP-1, WE)
- F. E. Boyle, Tackle, Wisconsin (ECP-2)
- Homer W. Dutter, Tackle, Indiana (ECP-2)
- Glenn D. Butzer, Guard, Illinois (ECP-2)
- Harry W. Powers, Guard, Minnesota (ECP-2)
- Henry E. Farnum, Center, Minnesota (ECP-1)
- John McGovern, Quarterback, Minnesota (ECP-1, WE) (CFHOF)
- Otto E. Seiler, Quarterback, Illinois (ECP-2)
- William Lucas Crawley, Halfback, Chicago (ECP-2)
- Earle T. Pickering, Fullback, Minnesota (ECP-1)
- John Wilce, Fullback, Wisconsin (ECP-2) (CFHOF)
