1909 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season


The 1909 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1909 college football season. The season began on September 25.
Under head coach Harris G. Cope, Sewanee won its last conference title in major college football. Sewanee gave Vanderbilt its first loss to a Southern team in six years, and was the first Sewanee squad to win a title since the 1899 Iron Men.
When the Kentucky team was welcomed home after the upset win over Illinois, Philip Carbusier said that they had "fought like wildcats", a nickname that stuck.
President Taft showed up for the Sewanee-LSU game. LSU was led by Hall of Fame quarterback Doc Fenton.

Results and team statistics

Conf. RankTeamHead coachOverall recordConf. recordPPGPAG
1SewaneeHarris Cope6–14–022.96.0
2VanderbiltDan McGugin7–34–121.03.2
3AlabamaDoc Pollard5–1–24–1–28.52.1
4LSUJoe Pritchard6–23–123.54.6
5 Georgia TechJohn Heisman7–24–224.15.0
5 AuburnMike Donahue5–24–216.75.6
7HowardJohn Longwell5-2-12-2--
8ClemsonBob Williams6–32–210.34.8
9MississippiNathan Stauffer4–3–21-2–111.05.4
10GeorgiaJames Coulter/Frank Dobson1–4–21–4-12.06.9
11The CitadelSam Costen4–3–20–1–1--
12Mississippi A&MW. D. Chadwick5–40–317.04.9
13MercerFrank Blake3–50–48.03.9
14TennesseeGeorge Levene1–6–20–51.212.6

Key
PPG = Average of points scored per game
PAG = Average of points allowed per game

Regular season

SIAA teams in bold.

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

Week Four

Week Five

Week Six

Week Seven

Week Eight

Week Nine

Week Ten

Bowl games

Awards and honors

All-Southern team

's All-Southern team included:
PositionNameTeam
QBDoc FentonLSU
HBAubrey LanierSewanee
HBRay MorrisonVanderbilt
FBWill MetzgerVanderbilt
ESilas WilliamsSewanee
THarry EsslingerAuburn
GEric CheapeSewanee
CJ. E. LucasGeorgia
GT. C. LockeAuburn
TMalvern GriffinVanderbilt
EEwing Y. FreelandVanderbilt