1909 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team

1909 Kentucky Wildcats football
Conference	Independent
1909 record	9–1
Head coach	Edwin Sweetland (1st year)

The 1909 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College during the 1909 college football season. 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.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 25	Kentucky Wesleyan	Lexington, KY	W 18–0
October 2	Berea College	Lexington, KY	W 28–0
October 9	at Illinois	Urbana, IL	W 6–2
October 16	Tennessee	Lexington, KY (Rivalry)	W 17–0
October	at North Carolina A&M	Raleigh, NC	L 6–15
October 28	Rose-Hulman	Lexington, Kentucky	W 43–0
November 3	at Georgetown (KY)	Georgetown, KY	W 22–6
November 6	St. Mary's High	Lexington, KY	W 29–0
November 13	Kentucky University	Lexington, KY (Rivalry)	W 77–0
November 19	Central	Lexington, KY (Rivalry)	W 81–0
*Non-conference game.

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References

↑ Michael Leo Donovan, Yankees to Fighting Irish : What's Behind Your Favorite Team's Name (Taylor Trade Publications, 2004), p107
↑ "Kentucky Season Schedule - databaseFootball.com/NCAA". databasefootball.com. Retrieved 2015-08-09.

Kentucky Wildcats football

Venues	Stoll Field/McLean Stadium (1916–1972) Commonwealth Stadium (1973–present) E.J. Nutter Training Facility (practice)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Centre Indiana Louisville (Governor's Cup) Mississippi State Tennessee Transylvania Vanderbilt

Culture & lore	The Wildcat Scratch Blue "On, On, U of K" "Kentucky Fight" Marching band 2003 Arkansas game

People	Head coaches Statistical leaders NFL draftees

Seasons	1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 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 2017

National championship seasons in bold

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