1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Michigan's fall training camp began on September 20, 1909, at Whitmore Lake. Twelve men reported on the first day of camp, including five veterans who had won varsity letters on the 1908 team: team captain Dave Allerdice, quarterback William Wasmund, guard Albert Benbrook, James K. Watkins, and Roy Ranney. The most significant loss from the 1908 team was All-American center Germany Schulz. By the time training camp ended two weeks later, the team had grown to 22 players, and The Michigan Alumnus reported that it promised to be one of Michigan's best teams in years, with "one of the speediest and most aggressive backfields in the west, if not in the country."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
The 1909 season was played under changed rules. The rule changes for 1909 included reducing the value of a field goal (whether by drop kick or place kick) from four points to three points. Michigan's Board in Control of Athletics also re-established a freshman football team in 1909 after the freshman football program had been ceased four years earlier. Michigan head coach Fielding H. Yost said at the time, "It is to the freshmen that we must look for our future Michigan teams and I am glad that it has been decided to allow us to have such a team.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Under competent coaching such as they will have the men will learn a lot about the Michigan style of playing and this will be invaluable when they come up for the Varsity team in future years." Prentiss Douglass was hired as the coach of the freshman team, and he led the freshman to a 5-0 record.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Michigan opened its 1909 season at Ferry Field with a 3–0 victory over the team from Cleveland's Case Scientific School. The game was the 13th meeting between the two programs, and Michigan had won all 12 of the prior games by a combined score of 351 to 37.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Michigan played "old-fashioned football" against Case, with the exception of two unsuccessful on-side kicks. Case blocked two of Dave Allerdice's punts, a problem that The Michigan Alumnus attributed to the inability of new men in Michigan's line to protect Allerdice from Case's rushers. The game was tied 0-0 late in the game. Michigan's only points came with a few minutes remaining on a field goal by Allerdice from the 35-yard line.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
In the Chicago Daily Tribune, Walter Eckersall wrote: "The old reliable, Allerdice, was called into commission, and he delivered the necessary boot to register enough points to win for his team." Despite the disappointing performance of the offense, the defense played a strong game, allowing only three first downs, one on a long forward pass, one on an end run, and one on an on-side kick.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Michigan's narrow margin of victory over Case raised concerns about the team's prospects. The Michigan Alumnus attributed the low score to two factors "the disheartening frequency of the Michigan fumbles" and "the unexpected strength of the Case veterans" (the Case team had nine veterans among its starting eleven). The New York Times blamed Michigan's close call on injuries: "Injuries and lack of training resulted in Michigan having a crippled line-up against the veteran Case eleven." The Detroit Free Press noted that the lack of healthy substitutes forced Michigan to play a conservative game so as to avoid further injuries.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Michigan's lineup against Case was Rogers (left end), Edmunds (left tackle), Benbrook (left guard), Watkins (center), Smith (right guard), Wells (right tackle), Borleske (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Bertrand and Magidsohn (left halfback), Allerdice (right halfback), and Lawton (fullback). The game was played in 20-minute halves. The referee was Eldridge of Michigan.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State
In the second week of the 1909 season, Michigan defeated Ohio State, 33 to 6. The game was the 11th meeting in the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, with Michigan having won nine of the prior meetings and tied once.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State
Right halfback Dave Allerdice was the scoring leader for Michigan, tallying 18 points on three field goals, four extra points, and a touchdown. He also made good use of the on-side kick for long gains and had two 40-yard runs that set up Michigan touchdowns. Michigan outscored Ohio State, 21 to 0, in the first half. Michigan's touchdowns were scored by fullback George M. Lawton (2),  Allerdice, and right tackle Stanfield Wells. Ohio State's only points came on a touchdown late in the second half. Michigan halfback "Doc" Freeney allowed a long punt to roll past him, tried to pick up the ball at the two-yard line, and fumbled. Ohio State's sub-center, Boone, recovered the ball in the endzone.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State
The Michigan Alumnus praised Allerdice for "a great exhibition of his abilities" on both defense and offense. The same publication also noted that right tackle Stanfield Wells had shown himself as "an all-around player", breaking through the Ohio line to tackle runners for a loss and opening large holes on offense for the Michigan backs. The Detroit Free Press wrote that Allerdice was "in a class by himself." Starting left tackle William Edmunds sustained a dislocated left collarbone against Ohio State and missed the next three games.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State
Michigan's lineup against Ohio State (starters listed first) was Rogers and Pattengill (left end), Edmunds (left tackle), Benbrook (left guard), Watkins (center), Smith and Conklin (right guard), Wells and Hines (right tackle), Borleske (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Freeney and Magidsohn (left halfback), Allerdice (right halfback), and Lawton and Clark (fullback). The game was played in 35-minute halves. The referee was Hoagland of Princeton.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Marquette
For the third game of the season, Michigan traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to play a Marquette team coached by the former Wisconsin star, William Juneau. The game was the first between the two schools. Michigan was handicapped in the game by injuries to multiple players. Edmunds, Smith, Pattengill and Freeney all missed the game, and fullback George M. Lawton played despite a midweek injury that left him "more fit for the hospital" than for the job of playing fullback.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Marquette
The Detroit Free Press wrote that "the hoodoo that has tirelessly pursued Yost and Michigan ever since the 1905 Chicago game" had returned. The losses were offset to some extent by the decision of William Casey to rejoin the team in time for the Marquette game. Casey had quit the team after the 1908 season, but was persuaded by pleading from Yost, Allerdice and friends to return to the team. He was the team's starting left tackle in the final five games of the season.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Marquette
The field was wet and slippery, such that "fast work was impossible." Michigan won the game, 6–5, scoring its only points early in the first half. After driving to Marquette's 30-yard line, Dave Allerdice lined up to kick a field goal, but the field goal attempt was a fake, and Allerdice executed an on-side kick that Michigan recovered at Marquette's five-yard line. After a penalty moved the ball to the one-yard line, Lawton scored the touchdown, and Allerdice kicked the extra point. Ring Lardner, covering the game for the Chicago Daily Tribune, wrote: "As has been the case frequently during the last three seasons, it was Allerdice's good right toe that gave the Wolverines the victory."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Marquette
Several minutes after Michigan's touchdown, Allerdice lined up to punt from Michigan's 15-yard line. The snap from center went over his head, and Marquette recovered the ball at the two-yard line. Marquette scored on its third attempt, but Marquette's right halfback Munsell missed the extra point, and Michigan led 6-5. In the second half, Michigan played a defensive game, punting the ball at "almost every opportunity." Ring Lardner reported that Michigan's coach "evidently had instructed Allerdice to play a kicking game", and the team "appeared loathe to try its offense."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Marquette
Late in the second half, Michigan narrowly preserved its lead after a field goal attempt by Allerdice was blocked at the Marquette 45-yard line. Marquette's fullback, Schroeder, picked up the ball and ran toward Michigan's goal "with a clear field before him." Lawton ran after Schroder and made a leaping tackle that saved the game for Michigan.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Marquette
The Michigan Alumnus wrote that Yost had played a conservative game to save his new plays for the big games ahead and to avoid further injuries to his players. Lardner wrote: "That Michigan did not play its game nor show its strength was apparent. Yost brought his team here for the purpose of winning by any kind of score. Straight football was the the [sic?] order throughout the Michigan side. Not one solitary forward pass was attempted by the Wolverines, and onside kicks and other modern stunts were as scarce as a Frenchman in a brewery." In contrast, Marquette's coach Juneau "showed his whole hand and it was full of delayed and forward passes of kinds apparently new to Yost's youngsters."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Marquette
Michigan's lineup against Marquette was Rogers and Ranney (left end),  Casey (left tackle), Benbrook (left guard), Watkins (center), Conklin (right guard), Wells (right tackle), Miller (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Magidsohn (left halfback), Allerdice (right halfback), and Lawton and Clark (fullback). The game was played in halves of 25 and 30 minutes. The referee was Kelly of Princeton.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Syracuse
In the fourth week of the 1909 season, Michigan shut out Syracuse, 44 to 0, before a crowd estimated at 7,500 persons at Ferry Field. The game was the second played between the schools, with Syracuse having won the first game in 1908 by a score of 28 to 4.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Syracuse
In the Syracuse game, Dave Allerdice scored 19 points on two touchdowns, six extra points, and a field goal. Allerdice scored the Wolverines' first points on a touchdown run from the four-yard line; Allerdice also kicked the extra point to give Michigan a 6–0 lead. Michigan's second touchdown was scored by James Joy Miller on a run around right end; Allerdice again converted the extra point, and Michigan led, 12–0. Allerdice scored the third touchdown but missed the extra point, and Michigan led, 17–0, at halftime.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Syracuse
Early in the second half, Allerdice's field goal extended the lead to 20–0. Quarterback William Wasmund added to the lead with a 70-yard punt return for a touchdown. Allerdice kicked the extra point, and Michigan led 26–0. Two minutes later, Albert Benbrook recovered a blocked punt and passed the ball to Stanley Borleske who ran 45 yards for a touchdown. Allerdice kicked the extra point, and Michigan led, 32–0. Michigan's next touchdown came on a forward pass from Wasmund to Borleske who ran 40 yards with the ball. Allerdice kicked the extra point, and Michigan led, 38–0. Michigan's final touchdown came when Syracuse fumbled the snap on a punt attempt; Stanfield Wells recovered the ball and returned the ball to the end zone. Michigan won by a final score of 44–0. Three of Michigan's seven touchdowns were the direct result of fumbles by Syracuse.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Syracuse
In the Detroit Free Press, E. A. Batchelor wrote: "Playing real Michigan football for the first time in lo, these many years, the Yost machine today literally ground the Syracuse eleven to bits and distributed the fragments over the surface of Ferry field." The Michigan Alumnus called it "the most spectacular game that has been played on Ferry Field in years", noting that the team "used every style of play that could be imagined and executed forward passes, end runs and line bucks with precision and speed." The Alumnus praised the work of Albert Benbrook and Stanfield Wells in penetrating the line and tackling Syracuse backs for losses. The Alumnus also praised the effort of quarterback William Wasmund:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Syracuse
"For the first time in his three years of playing on the Michigan team Wasmund ran the team in a manner worthy a Michigan quarterback. Never before has he used better judgment in calling for plays or has he run back punts in such a manner . . . The most spectacular play of the day was made by him when, receiving a punt on the Michigan 35-yard line, he ran all the way for a touchdown, dodging Syracuse tacklers who attempted to stop him."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Syracuse
The New York Times opined that Stanley Borleske was "the stellar feature of the day" and praised the improvement in the Michigan team: "The Michigan form, so demoralized a week ago, was splendid. The blocking and tackling, which have been Michigan's weak points this year, were the strong points of her play to-day." The Chicago Daily Tribune praised the work of Albert Benbrook on defense: "The Morgan Park giant tore big holes in the Syracuse line and went down under punts with remarkable speed."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Syracuse
Michigan's lineup against Syracuse (starters listed first) was Ranney and Borleske (left end), Casey (left tackle), Benbrook (left guard), Watkins and Kaynor (center), Smith and Conklin (right guard), Wells (right tackle), Miller (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Magidsohn, Freeney and Greene (left halfback), Allerdice (right halfback), and Lawton and Clark (fullback). The game was played in 35-minute halves. The referee was Fultz from Brown.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
On November 6, 1909, Michigan suffered its only defeat of the season, losing 11–3 to a Notre Dame team coached by former Michigan star, Frank Longman. Longman had played on Fielding H. Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams from 1903 to 1905 and took over as Notre Dame's head coach in 1909. The game was the ninth meeting in the Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry. Michigan had won the first eight games (five of them by shutouts) by a combined score of 121 to 16.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
The game was played at Ferry Field, and promotional "bargain day" prices attracted a large crowd. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", attended the game, which was accompanied by "the usual cheers, the usual parade of the student band, the usual singing of 'The Yellow and the Blue' and all the other things that go to make up a game at Ferry field." When the Michigan team ran onto the field at 2:05 p.m., Michigan's quarterback William Wasmund had his head "swathed in bandages."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
Notre Dame drove to Michigan's 20-yard line early in the game, but their attempt at field goal was blocked by Albert Benbrook. Shortly thereafter, Dave Allerdice kicked a field goal from the 27-yard line to give Michigan a 3–0 lead. Notre Dame scored on a one-yard run by Vaughan, missed the extra point, and led 5–3 at halftime. Starting left end Stanley Borleske suffered a broken collar bone early in the game and was replaced by James Rogers. Notre Dame's left halfback, Red Miller, was able to make substantial gains around the end after Borleske left the game. Notre Dame's offense was also aided by a "careful precision" passing game. In the Detroit Free Press, E. A. Batchelor praised the work of Miller, opining that no greater exhibition of all-around work had been seen at Ann Arbor "since Willie Heston was in his prime. It was wonderful."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
Michigan lost an excellent scoring opportunity in the second half. The Wolverines recovered a fumble at Notre Dame's 15-yard line and drove the ball to the six-yard line. With one yard to go for a first down, and "to the utter astonishment of nearly everyone present who knew enough about football", Wasmund called on Allerdice to kick a field goal rather than trying for the one remaining yard needed for a first down.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
The snap from center was poor, and by the time Allerdice kicked the ball, it hit a Notre Dame lineman in the chest and rolled to the 40-yard line where Notre Dame recovered. Wasmund's decision to call for the field goal was widely criticized as a "blunder", "silly", and "an atrocious error of judgment" that cost Michigan the game. On the sidelines, Walter Camp and Fielding Yost "expressed their disapproval in the most decisive terms."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
With five minutes remaining in the game, Notre Dame scored a second touchdown after Wasmund allowed an on-side kick to get past him. Notre Dame recovered at Michigan's 14-yard line, and Notre Dame halfback Billy Ryan scored on the next play – a long run around Michigan's right end. Notre Dame kicked the extra point and led 11–3.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
The New York Times wrote: "The Notre Dame half backs [Miller and Ryan] showed some of the most brilliant running that was ever seen on Ferry Field." The Chicago Daily Tribune added: "The Michigan team, so brilliant last week, showed not a semblance of the football that was to win again the championship of the west, while Notre Dame was all but impervious to its best attempts, offensive and defensive." In the Detroit Free Press, E. A. Batchelor wrote: "Michigan was outplayed. More than that she was out-lucked, out-fought and out-generaled."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
After the loss to Notre Dame in 1909, Michigan did not play another game against Notre Dame for 33 years. The 1909 Michigan–Notre Dame game is most remembered for its role in giving birth to the nickname of the Notre Dame football team. Notre Dame's 1909 football team was made up predominantly of players of Irish descent. E. A. Batchelor, a sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press, submitted a report with the headline: "'Shorty' Longman's Fighting Irishmen Humble the Wolverines to Tune of 11 to 3." Batchelor then opened his report as follows:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
"Eleven fighting Irishmen wrecked the Yost machine this afternoon. These sons of Erin, individually and collectively representing the University of Notre Dame, not only beat the Michigan team, but they dashed some of Michigan's fondest hopes and shattered Michigan's fairest dreams."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
Notre Dame football historian, John Kryk, later wrote: "With that flowery lead, E.A. Batchelor of the Detroit Free Press popularized a moniker Notre Dame teams would later come to embrace – and aptly summed up the greatest athletic achievement to that point in Notre Dame history." Kryk noted that, according to Notre Dame folklore, Batchelor had overheard a Notre Dame player trying to motivate his teammates at halftime by pleading, "What's the matter with you guys? You're all Irish and you're not fighting worth a lick."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
Michigan's lineup against Notre Dame (starters listed first) was Borleseke and Rogers (left end),  Casey (left tackle), Benbrook (left guard), Watkins (center), Conklin (right guard), Wells (right tackle), Miller (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Magidsohn (left halfback), Allerdice (right halfback), and Clark and Lawton (fullback). The game was played in 35-minute halves. The referee was Hoagland from Princeton.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
On November 13, 1909, Michigan played the Penn Quakers in front of 15,000 spectators at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Since leaving the Big Ten Conference, Michigan had played annual rivalry games against Penn at or near the end of the season. Penn was one of the dominant football programs of the era, winning seven national championships between 1894 and 1912. The 1909 game was the fifth meeting between the schools, and Penn had won the first four games by a combined score of 63 to 10.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
Penn, which had won the 1908 national championship and had an ongoing 23-game winning streak, was favored again in 1909. Before the game, Coach Yost refused to predict the outcome but said that "he had confidence in his team to give Pennsylvania the hardest fight since the series started." The Wolverines came away with an upset and won the game by a score of 12 to 6. The game marked the first time a Western team had defeated one of the "Big Four" (Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn) which had dominated the sport of college football since the game originated almost 40 years earlier.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
The battleship USS Michigan, which had been delivered two months earlier and represented the state of the art in naval engineering, was anchored at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on League Island on the day of the game. Out of loyalty to the team that shared a name with their ship, 250 crewmen from the ship were granted leave to attend the game. Accompanied by the ship's band, the sailors marched onto the field before the game started, "each man carrying a maize and blue pennant, heads up and chest out." The unit's color bearer presented team captain Dave Allerdice with a silken flag (pictured at right) that was hung in Michigan's trophy room. One of the favorite yells repeated by the sailors was:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
In a surprise move, Yost moved Andrew Smith from his usual position at right guard to the center position against Penn. Smith had not played at the position until two days before the team left for Philadelphia, and Yost had Smith practice snapping the ball in the aisle of the Pullman car that took the team east. At every stop on the trip, Yost also had Smith practice his long snaps on the station platforms. Smith ended up playing so well at the position against Penn and Minnesota that he was selected by Walter Eckersall as the first-team center on his All-Western team. Michigan's captain, Allerdice, played the game with his hand in bandages after breaking a small bone in his left hand.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
Right halfback Joe Magidsohn scored both of Michigan's touchdowns within the first ten minutes of the start of the game. Allerdice kicked both extra points. The first touchdown was scored less than two minutes into the game and was set up by a trick play. With the ball at the 22-yard line, Michigan lined up to kick a field goal, but the formation was a fake. William Wasmund took the snap from center and ran backward and to his left. Wasmund tossed the ball back to Dave Allerdice who was trailing behind Wasmund.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
Allerdice began running with the ball, then stopped behind the blocking of the fullback. Allerdice passed to Magidsohn who was running toward the right sideline. Magidsohn caught the ball at the 26-yard line and ran downfield before he was tackled at the five-yard line. Magidsohn scored on a short run two players later, and Allerdice kicked the extra point.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
Michigan's second touchdown followed a fumble by Penn quarterback Miller. Michigan drove 80 yards on five plays, with Magidsohn carrying on four of the five plays. On the final play of the drive, with the ball at Penn's 25-yard line, Wasmund took the snap and circled to his right with the other backs, creating the appearance of a mass play to the right side. Wasmund then tossed the ball to Magidsohn at the 35-yard line. With the defense moving in the direction of the apparent mass play, Magidsohn ran left into a clear field with Edmunds and Wells blocking for him. After Michigan took a 12–0 lead, Penn scored a touchdown and extra point with only one minute remaining in the first half.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
For Wasmund, the victory over Penn was his final game for Michigan. After being sharply criticized for his role in the loss to Notre Dame one week earlier, the victory provided redemption. E. A. Batchelor wrote:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
"Billy Wasmund has been the subject of much criticism this fall. Today was his last chance for Michigan and he rose to the opportunity in a manner that will place his name among those of Michigan's beloved. He had both nerve and judgment today. He knew what to do and when to do it and Yost himself could not have run the team any better."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
In the second half, Yost directed his team in a kicking game, and neither team scored. Penn made 10 substitutions during the game, while Michigan made only one – Ranney replacing Conklin at left end. As the game ended, "[t]he few frenzied Michigan rooters rushed on the field and bore Coach Yost on their shoulders to the Wolverines' dressing room." As the Michigan players and fans carried Yost from the field, the band from the USS Michigan played "Michigan, My Michigan."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
The Chicago Daily Tribune wrote: "Bewildered and dazed by a style of football they never had before encountered the Red and Blue warriors were playthings in the hands of the sturdy westerners in the first ten minutes of the game when the Wolverines tallied all their points." The Tribune singled out Magidsohn for particular attention:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
"Michigan's remarkable offense was built about a half back who earned a place in football's hall of fame by his work today. His name is Magidsohn, and it long will be remembered at Penn. Magidsohn was irresistible on the offense, tearing great holes in the Quaker defense and scoring both touchdowns. In addition, he tackled fiercely and spoiled Penn's best efforts at the forward pass."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
Joe Magidsohn, who was the first Jewish player to win a varsity "M" at the University of Michigan, later said of the Penn game: "That 1909 Michigan-Penn game is the one I regard as my greatest . . . My All-America teammate, halfback and captain, Dave Allerdice, had a broken left hand so I was obliged to do most of the ball carrying."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
The New York Times credited the play of Allerdice, Magidsohn, Wasmund and Benbrook, and wrote: "The Western men were physically superior in weight and in other respects to the Eastern players, and in teamwork they moved with a precision that showed careful preparation and good generalship." A two-page account of the game in the 1910 Michiganensian (the University of Michigan yearbook) boasted that "never in the history of the game has there been a clash that attracted and held the interest of the spectators as did the Michigan-Pennsylvania contest of 1909." The Michiganensian continued: "Football is not a serious thing to many people, but the stand made by Allerdice and his men against Pennsylvania meant something. It meant that Michigan had her fill of the dregs; she was on the climb again."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn
Michigan's lineup against Penn was Conklin and Ranney (left end),  Casey (left tackle), Benbrook (left guard), Smith (center), Edmunds (right guard), Wells (right tackle), Miller (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Magidsohn (left halfback), Allerdice (right halfback), and Clark  (fullback). The game was played in 35-minute halves. The referee was Langford from Trinity.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
Michigan concluded its 1909 season with a game against Minnesota in Minneapolis. It was the eighth meeting between the two football programs, but the first since a 6–6 tie in 1903 that ended Michigan's 29-game winning streak. The day after the 1903 game, Minnesota's custodian Oscar Munson brought an earthenware jug to L. J. Cooke, head of the Minnesota athletics department, and declared in a thick Scandinavian accent: "Yost left his yug." Accounts differ as to the history of the jug and how Munson came to be in possession of it.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
Cooke and Munson painted the jug and wrote on it, "Michigan Jug – Captured by Oscar, October 31, 1903" along with the score "Michigan 6, Minnesota 6". Cooke wrote to Yost: "We have your little brown jug; if you want it, you'll have to win it." Michigan accepted the challenge, and the teams finally met three years later on November 20, 1909. The teams continue to play each year for the Little Brown Jug, the oldest rivalry trophy in American college football.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
The 1909 Minnesota team came into the game as the Western Conference champions and with an undefeated record, having soundly defeated Iowa (41–0), Iowa State (18–0), Nebraska (14–0), Chicago (20–6), and Wisconsin (34–6). The Golden Gophers were led by 1909's first-team All-American quarterback John McGovern, who was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. On the day before the game, the University of Minnesota's chapel was packed for a mass meeting to celebrate the team's Western Conference championship.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
The students opened with Minnesota's traditional "Ski-U-Mah" cheer, and a large banner with the words "Western Champions" was raised above the players. University of Minnesota President Cyrus Northrop spoke to the crowd and confidently predicted that the Gophers would realize their fondest dreams the next day by humbling a team coached by Fielding H. Yost.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
Michigan was placed at a further disadvantage because its starting quarterback William Wasmund was not permitted to play. Wasmund was playing his fourth year of college football in 1909, and a Western Conference rule prohibited the use of players who had already played three years. Even though Michigan was no longer a member of the conference, Minnesota remained in the conference, and Wasmund was therefore not permitted to play. James Joy Miller replaced Wasmund at quarterback on offense, but returned to his end position when the team played on defense.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
Despite the loss of Wasmund and a rigorous travel schedule that had taken the Wolverines in the preceding days by train from Ann Arbor to Philadelphia, Philadelphia to Ann Arbor, and Ann Arbor to Minneapolis, the Wolverines won the game by a score of 15–6 and, with the win, the right to bring the Little Brown Jug to Ann Arbor. The 1909 game began at 2:01 p.m. and was played in front of 25,000 spectators at Northrop Field. Several inches of snow had to be removed from the field before the game began. As in the Penn game, Joe Magidsohn scored both of Michigan's touchdowns. Dave Allerdice kicked two extra points and a field goal. The teams each scored a touchdown in the first half and went into halftime with the score tied at 6 to 6.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
At halftime, Michigan's 24-piece band merged with Minnesota's 80-piece band and marched around the field "playing popular Minnesota and Michigan airs." Walter Eckersall wrote that the halftime show "probably surpasses anything ever seen on a football field." In addition to the marching band show, halftime saw a flurry of betting, with Minnesota fans "demanding even money" and several thousand dollars being wagered on the outcome.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
In the second half, Magidsohn put Michigan in the lead when he intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown. Eckersall described the game-winning interception: "As the oval was sailing through the air, he judged his distance, leaped perfectly, and grabbed the ball on the dead run. Without a Minnesota man around him, he sprinted thirty-five yards for Michigan's second touchdown." Allerdice kicked the extra point. Later in the second half, Pattengill made a fair catch at the Minnesota 42-yard line, and Michigan exercised its right to a free kick for a field goal.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
According to Eckersall, "Allerdice elected to place kick and sent the oval straight and true as a bullet over the cross bar between the uprights for Michigan's final score." Michigan's statistical totals for the game were 212 yards on the ground, zero yards on forward passes, 164 yards on kickoff and punt returns, 70 yards lost on penalties, and 12 first downs. Minnesota's quarterback McGovern attempted three field goals, but missed on each. Allerdice also attempted three field goals for Michigan and was successful on one.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
The Michigan Alumnus named Magidsohn and Benbrook as Michigan's leading players in the game. With respect to Magidsohn, it wrote:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
"Magidsohn as an offensive player proved that he had no equal in the west. It was largely due to his terrific line plunging and his off-tackle runs that Michigan made its score in the first half, the first count of the game, and it was his intercepting Pickering's forward pass in the second half that gave Michigan her second touchdown. On defense, he played remarkably well and frequently threw a Minnesota runner for a loss."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
With respect to Benbrook, the Alumnus wrote: "He was all over the field, seemingly at the same time, he brought down runners who thought they were safely clear of opponents, he broke through the opposing line to get a man behind, he tore great gashes in the Gopher defense through which Magidsohn and Allerdice and Freeney and Greene hurled themselves for big gains and he never failed to help push or pull when every bit of help was needed."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
The New York Times called it "the hardest fought game seen on a Western gridiron this year." Writing in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Eckersall opined that the Michigan team played "the best football of any Michigan team since 1905" and singled out the "star work" of Benbrook who he called "the best linesman in the west today without exception." On the game as a whole, Eckersall wrote:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
"Today's struggle was one of the prettiest that possibly could be imagined. The game abounded in all sorts of football . . . The complicated shift plays of both elevens were executed with marvelous precision and plainly showed the heights of football perfection to which these teams had attained. . . . The game was a thriller and was prolific of the best football played in the west this season. Both teams had an old grudge to settle, and the players battled until every ounce of physical energy was exhausted. Not a play or a trick in the category of either team was overlooked by either field general, and extreme but fair and clean methods were employed to win the contest."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
After the game, the Minnesota team presented the Michigan team with the water jug from the 1903 game. Minnesota's coach, Henry L. Williams, said at the time, "We're giving it back with the understanding that we can have it again should we win from you next year." After the game, the two teams also attended a banquet at which "the foes showered verbal bouquets at each other all evening."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota
Michigan's lineup against Minnesota was Conklin and Ranney (left end),  Casey (left tackle), Benbrook (left guard), Smith (center), Edmunds and Watkins (right guard), Wells (right tackle), Pattengill (right end), Miller (quarterback), Magidsohn (left halfback), Allerdice (right halfback), and Freeney and Green  (fullback). The game was played in 35-minute halves. The referee was Lieut. Beavers from West Point. The umpire was Hinkey from Yale.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
At the conclusion of the 1909 season, Walter Eckersall praised Yost's efforts in developing the team "to the point where they now are entitled to be ranked with the famous Michigan teams of 1901 to 1905." Yost's contract with Michigan expired at the end of the 1909 season, but on December 1, 1909, he signed a contract to remain the head football coach at Michigan through the 1911 season.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
At the end of the season, the choice for "Champions of the West" was a matter for debate. Minnesota had won the Western Conference championship but had been beaten decisively by Michigan. Notre Dame had beaten Michigan, but had played a weak schedule and tied Marquette in the last game of the season. E. A. Batchelor of the Detroit Free Press was unabashed in declaring, "Michigan again is champion of the west." The 1910 Michiganensian also declared the 1909 Michigan team as "Champions of the West." However, in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Eckersall concluded that the honor must be given to Notre Dame:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
"Coach Yost's players were not at their best when they met Notre Dame, and if the two teams were to meet next Saturday, Michigan in all probability would be the winner. However, results count, and Notre Dame should be given full credit for its achievement."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
Coach Yost noted that Notre Dame's season-ending tie with Marquette would make the critics who picked Notre Dame as western champion "revise their dope", but stated publicly that he did not care who the critics chose:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
"Meechigan isn't worrying about the championship. We stand on our record, y' know, and don't care how the critics dope us out. . . . Let them fight it out in the newspapers, y' know. We are satisfied. The games that counted Michigan won."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
Yale and Harvard were widely recognized as the top two teams in the country, and some writers opined that Michigan was the third best team in the country after Yale and Harvard. One eastern critic explained his choice of Michigan as the third best team in the country as follows:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
"The Wolverines have but one defeat to their discredit. This was at the hands of Notre Dame, a very powerful team which caught Michigan unprepared and off her guard. One week later, Michigan played a very superior game and outplayed the University of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania victory was the making of the Michigan eleven. It put new courage and new confidence into Yost's men and when they met Minnesota, the conference champions, they completely outplayed them."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
Several Michigan players received national or regional awards. Walter Camp selected Albert Benbrook as a first-team player on his All-American team in Collier's Weekly. He was only the fifth Western player, and the first lineman from a Western team, to receive first-team honors from Camp. Michigan's halfbacks Dave Allerdice and Joe Magidsohn were selected as second-team players on Camp's All-American team. Left tackle William Casey was a third-team selection by Camp. The New York Times and syndicated sports columnist Tommy Clark  selected Allerdice as a first-team player on their All-American teams.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
In the Chicago Daily Tribune, Walter Eckersall picked an All-Western team that included four Wolverines as first-team players. The Michigan players receiving first-team honors from Eckersall were Benbrook, Allerdice, Magidsohn (who he called "a demon on the offense"), and center Andrew W. Smith. In announcing his selection of Smith, Eckersall wrote: "Smith is by far the best center in this section. Yost experimented with this player until the Pennsylvania game ... Finally, as a last resort the coach tried him at center, where he proved to be one of the finds of the season. He is a hard, aggressive player, who does not know the meaning of the word quit. ...  With more experience he should develop into one of the best pivot men the west has ever produced."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
Fielding Yost selected an All-Western team for the Detroit Free Press and named six Michigan players to his first team. In addition to the four Wolverines chosen by Eckersall, Yost also chose James Joy Miller at right end and William Casey at left tackle. Yost excluded Notre Dame players from consideration on grounds that "the Longman team has so many men who are ineligible under college rules as accepted by the leading teams, that it is not properly to be classed with the others who observe stricter regulations."


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season
He noted that four of Notre Dame's biggest stars (Dolan, Miller, Dimmick and Philbrook) would be ineligible to play for most colleges, and one of them had played nine years of college football. Yost named McGovern of Minnesota as his quarterback "even though he showed nothing" against Michigan and was made to "look like a schoolboy" by Michigan's Joy Miller.


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Letter winners
On November 24, 1909, varsity "M" letters were awarded to 16 players, including every man who played in either the Pennsylvania or Minnesota game. The recipients of varsity letters for 1909 were:


1909 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Reserves
On December 6, 1909, athletic director Philip Barthelme announced that 27 players would receive "R" letters for their participation as reserves on the 1909 varsity football team. They are:


1909 Mid Derbyshire by-election
The Mid Derbyshire by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP)  to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.


1909 Mid Derbyshire by-election, Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the death of Sir James Jacoby on 23 June 1909. He had been Liberal MP for Mid Derbyshire since the 1885 general election.


1909 Mid Derbyshire by-election, Electoral history
The Liberals easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased majority;


1909 Mid Derbyshire by-election, Candidates
The local Liberal Association selected 51-year-old John Hancock to defend the seat. Hancock was a miners agent for the Nottingham Miners Association and was sponsored by the Liberal Party supporting Derbyshire Miners Association. This was a significant selection as miners accounted for about two thirds of the electorate. The Labour Party were happy to give Hancock their support. The Conservatives re-selected Samuel Cresswell as their candidate.


1909 Mid Derbyshire by-election, Campaign
Polling Day was fixed for the 15 July 1909, just 22 days after the death of the previous MP. Hancock closely associated himself with Lloyd George's People's Budget. During the campaign Hancock agreed that if elected, he would sign the Labour Party constitution. The Conservative campaign centred on the Navy and Tariff Reform.


1909 Mid Derbyshire by-election, Aftermath
Hancock held the seat at the following General election under his new party label. However, along with many other miners MPs, he fell out with the Labour Party and crossed the floor back to the Liberal Party in 1915.


1909 Milan–San Remo
The third running of the Milan–San Remo cycling classic was held on 4 April 1909. The race was won by Luigi Ganna, the first Italian to win Milan–San Remo. 104 riders started the race; 57 finished.


1909 Milan–San Remo, Summary
The success of foreign riders in the two previous editions had made the race gain popularity. For the first time, more than a hundred starters signed up. 104 riders, of which 20 Belgians and French, were at the start in Milan just before six in the morning. It was a cold day and rain had made the unpaved pre-war roads very muddy.


1909 Milan–San Remo, Summary
Luigi Ganna had broken away on the Passo del Turchino, before half-race, and was subsequently joined and dropped by Emile Georget and Giovanni Cuniolo. In Savona, Georget took a wrong way – he said a clerk signalled him in the wrong direction – and was passed by Ganna who powered on solo to San Remo. At the finish, Ganna, a former bricklayer, was welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd and became the first Italian winner of Milan–San Remo. Georget finished second at 3 minutes, Cuniolo third at 18 minutes. For the first time, the speed average exceeded 30 km/h.


1909 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1909 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1909 college football season. In their tenth year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 6–1 record (3–0 against Western Conference opponents), won the conference championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 158 to 27.


1909 Mississippi A&M Aggies baseball team
The 1909 Mississippi A&M Aggies baseball team represented the Mississippi Aggies of Mississippi A&M in the 1909 IAAUS baseball season. The Aggies were led by Dolly Stark in his first and only season as head coach. They finished as co-champions of the SIAA with a 10–2 record, 22–4 overall.


1909 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team
The 1909 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1909 college football season.


1909 Mississippi College Collegians football team
The 1909 Mississippi College Collegians football team represented Mississippi College as an independent in the 1909 college football season.


1909 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1909 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1909 college football season. The team compiled a 7–0–1 record (4–0–1 against MVC opponents) and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 86 to 36. Bill Roper was the head coach for the first and only season. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.


1909 Montana football team
The 1909 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1909 college football season. They were led by second-year head coach Roy White, and finished the season with a record of six wins, zero losses and one tie (6–0–1).


1909 Monterrey hurricane
The 1909 Monterrey hurricane was one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, killing an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico. Originating from a tropical storm east of the Leeward Islands on August 20, the storm tracked west-northwest, entering the Caribbean as a minimal hurricane the next day. After striking Hispaniola on August 23, the hurricane made another landfall in eastern Cuba before reentering the Caribbean. Once back over open water, the storm intensified into a Category 3 hurricane and moved across the northern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula.


1909 Monterrey hurricane
By August 26, the storm had emerged into the Gulf of Mexico as a weakened, but regrouping system. It attained its peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h) that evening. Maintaining this intensity, the system made landfall in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas late on August 27 and rapidly dissipated the following afternoon.


1909 Monterrey hurricane
Throughout its existence, the hurricane remained relatively close to land, so consequently its effects were felt in many areas. Much of the northern Caribbean received moderate to heavy rainfall along with gusty winds during its passage; although only Haiti reported damage from it. Its effects were far more severe in Mexico where an estimated 4,000 people were killed by record-breaking floods triggered by the hurricane. The city of Monterrey received the worst damage: more than half of the structures in the city were flooded, hundreds were destroyed, and 20,000 people were left homeless. Damage from the storm in the country was estimated to have exceeded $50 million (1909 USD; $1.44 billion 2021 USD).


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Meteorological history
The origins of the hurricane are uncertain due to a lack of ship reports in the western Atlantic Ocean. According to the Atlantic hurricane database, it was first identifiable as a tropical storm on August 20 to the east of the Leeward Islands. Tracking to the west-northwest, the storm quickly attained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h), equivalent to Category 1 status on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. By the evening of August 21, the storm entered the Caribbean as it brushed the northern coast of Guadeloupe; intensification of the hurricane over the northeastern Caribbean was slow. Early on August 23, it made its first landfall with winds of 90 mph (145 km/h) in San Cristóbal Province, Dominican Republic, just southwest of the country's capital city of Santo Domingo.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Meteorological history
The hurricane weakened slightly over the mountainous terrain of Hispaniola, although it is believed to have maintained winds of at least 75 mph (120 km/h) based on damage reports in Haiti. Later on August 23, the storm "jumped" northward before making another landfall in the Cuban province of Guantánamo. Continuing towards the west-northwest, the hurricane regained strength as it moved over the northern Caribbean. During the afternoon of August 24, the system attained winds of 100 mph (160 km/h), corresponding to a Category 2 hurricane.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Meteorological history
Early the following morning, it further intensified to a Category 3 major hurricane, defined as having winds in excess of 111 mph (179 km/h), before making landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula near the city of Cancún. The hurricane emerged into the Gulf of Mexico within 12 hours and quickly re-intensified to attain its peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h) on August 26. It soon slowed and turned due west, maintaining its intensity. Late on August 27, the storm made its final landfall in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Rapid weakening took place as it drifted onshore, and it dissipated the following afternoon.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, Caribbean
Prior to the hurricane's devastating impacts in Mexico, it brought heavy rains and high winds to several of the northern Caribbean Islands. The first to be affected by the storm were the Leeward Islands; however, no known damage resulted from its passage. Moderate rain and gusty winds were reported in Puerto Rico as well as the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. In eastern Jamaica, between Aquavale and Hope, the banana crop was largely destroyed. Haiti suffered severe damage was reported in many towns, with homes destroyed and many homeless. Much of Cuba was also impacted by the storm, with winds up to 60 mph (95 km/h) being recorded as far north as Havana.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, Mexico
Although a borderline Category 2–3 hurricane when it made landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula, little is known about the storm's impact in the region. The United Fruit Company steamship, Cartago, encountered adverse conditions in the hurricane while traversing the Yucatán Channel about  25 mi (40 km) offshore. Rocked by severe winds up to 100 mph (160 km/h) and swells for 12 hours, the ship suffered damage to its pilothouse, starboard deck, and railings. Aside from seasickness, none of the vessel's 24 crewmen were injured. However, following the hurricane's second landfall, the resulting damage was catastrophic.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, Mexico
During the overnight hours between August 27 and 28, cities along the coastline of Tamaulipas likely sustained severe damage from the hurricane's storm surge and high winds. Newspaper reports stated winds reached 60 mph (97 km/h) in Veracruz and 75 to 90 mph (121 to 145 km/h) from Tampico to Matamoros in Tamaulipas.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, Mexico
The worst of the damage took place further inland, within the state of Nuevo León. There, torrential rainfall triggered a flood even exceeding 100-year flood values. According to meteorologists in Mexico, the storm dropped 17.5 in (440 mm) of rain over a 40‑hour span. Further rains fell for the following 32 hours, worsening the situation. Adobe homes that survived the initial onslaught collapsed in these rains, killing many people. The rising Santa Catarina River flowed into the San Juan River, causing an abrupt rise and subsequent overflow of water that caught residents off-guard.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, Mexico
Multiple small communities were swept away in the ensuing floods. According to Mexican officials, overnight on August 27, the reservoir dam near Nuevo León's capital city, Monterrey, burst, flooding more than half of the buildings in the city, as well as all of the nearby town of San Luisto. The normally 150 yd (140 m) wide river swelled to 0.75 mi (1.21 km) wide. Steel works and smelters situated along the Santa Catarina River were destroyed after the river rose well over its banks. Hundreds of homes were destroyed throughout the city, leaving an estimated 20,000 people homeless. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, an enormous 235,000 ft3 (6,650 m3) of water was being moved per second during the height of the flood. The raging rivers finally subsided by August 30.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, Mexico
At the height of the floods, residents were forced to seek refuge on the roofs of two-story buildings; however, the Santa Catarina River was flowing at a very fast pace of 20 mph (32 km/h). The force of the current led to most homes being taken off their foundations and sent downstream, resulting in the deaths of anyone inside. In one incident, 90 people died after seeking refuge in a school after their homes collapsed. However, not long after entering the building, flood waters inundated the structure and caused it to collapse.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, Mexico
By the morning, survivors reported that the state of the city was "indescribable". The San Francisco church, built in 1572, was destroyed during the storm. Damage from the hurricane was estimated to have been at least $50 million (1909 USD; $1.44 billion 2021 USD). Of this, roughly $20 million was attributed to railroad losses. Throughout Mexico, reports indicated that about 4,000 people were killed as a result of the storm, making it one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record. Some estimates place the death toll as high as 5,000 and others as low as 3,000. Of these fatalities, 800 are believed to have been in the south side of Monterrey where four blocks of the city were completely destroyed.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, United States
While the hurricane traversed Cuba on August 24, the United States National Weather Bureau issued hurricane warnings for southern Florida between Tampa and Jupiter and advised ships to avoid the eastern Gulf and South Atlantic. Ahead of the hurricane's landfall in Mexico, the Weather Bureau raised storm and hurricane warnings for the Texas coat on August 27. Upon landfall, the storm's northern half brought increased swells and gusty winds to, recorded up to 68 mph (109 km/h), to parts of southern Texas. Tides were described as the highest in several years.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, United States
Tarpon Beach was devastated by surging waters, with every structure except the lighthouse and quarantine station being damaged or destroyed. Debris from the town washed ashore 3 mi (4.8 km) away at Point Island. Rescued personnel from Brazos Santiago were able to save all of the stranded residents as waters rose. The coastlines of Mustang Island and San José Island straddling Aransas Pass were submerged. Low-lying areas north of Corpus Christi were inundated by 1 to 3 ft (0.30 to 0.91 m) of water and several piers were damaged. A tornado near Beeville destroyed a large barn and outhouse.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Impact, United States
Rainfall from the hurricane reached 7.8 in (200 mm) in Falfurrias between August 27 and 28. Twenty-four-hour rainfall reached 5.88 in (149 mm) in La Parra, a state record for the month of August at the time. Overall damage in the state was minimal from the storm and no lives were lost.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Aftermath
Crippled communication networks and infrastructure hampered relief efforts in the immediate aftermath. More than 60 mi (97 km) of railway was destroyed and numerous roads were washed out. The city of Monterrey was entirely cut-off and within days, food supplies were low and residents were at risk of famine. Local water supplies were rendered useless. Many residents and visitors in the city did all they could to help rescue those trapped in the flood waters and take care of the homeless. According to The New York Times, one person rescued 30 people stranded in flood waters.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Aftermath
Numerous rescue operations were undertaken during the flood, saving many lives. However, survivors faced another issue after losing their homes: lack of food. Food was unavailable to most residents in the wake of the storm until August 31 when the first relief supplies arrived. Even then, most only received a small amount of bread and beans. Municipal authorities and the American Consulate provided bread, coffee, and soup to more than 10,000 people. Benefit performances and bull fights were planned to raise charity money. American Consulate General Hanna appealed for American aid on August 30 and the American Red Cross appealed for $20,000.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Aftermath
Once the flood along the Santa Catarina River receded, searches were conducted to attempt to locate the bodies of victims. However, reports indicated that the river bed was similar to quicksand and most bodies on it were likely underground. To deal with the large number of bodies in the wake of the disaster, Mexican officials decided to cremate and mass bury victims. By mid-September, between 1,600 and 1,800 people were hired to repair and rebuild the devastated railways in Nuevo León.


1909 Monterrey hurricane, Aftermath
In 2009, the third edition of the book El Río Fiera Bramaba: 1909 by Oswaldo Sánchez, re-accounting reports form people who experienced the flood, was planned. According to the director of publications at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, the book was considered one of historical quality. In memory of those who perished during the flood, the book was released to the public on August 27, 2009, the 100 year anniversary of the disaster.


1909 Moreton state by-election
The Moreton state by-election, 1909 was a by-election held on 19 June 1909 for the Queensland Legislative Assembly seat of Moreton, based to the north of Brisbane.


1909 Moreton state by-election
The by-election was triggered by the death of Ministerial member John Dunmore Campbell on 27 May 1909. Campbell had held the seat since 1899. He was a minister in the short-lived Second Philp Ministry prior to the 1908 election.


1909 Moreton state by-election
The seat, later known as Murrumba, was based in Caboolture and included all of what is now the Moreton Bay Region, the former City of Caloundra and the towns of Nambour and Eumundi.


1909 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The 1909 College Basketball All-American team, as chosen retroactively by the Helms Athletic Foundation. The player highlighted in gold was chosen as the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year retroactively in 1944.


1909 NSWRFL season
The 1909 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the second season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Eight teams contested during the season for the premiership and the Royal Agricultural Society Challenge Shield; seven teams from Sydney and one team from Newcastle, New South Wales.


1909 NSWRFL season
At the beginning of the season, the nearly broke NSWRFL had met and kicked out its founders Henry Hoyle, Victor Trumper and J J Giltinan. Part-way through the season, Edward Larkin was appointed full-time secretary of the NSWRFL.


1909 NSWRFL season
Also in 1909 north of the border, the Queensland Rugby Football League got its club competition started for the rebel football code of rugby league.


1909 NSWRFL season, Teams
The teams that made up the 1909 premiership season were the same as the 1908 season with the exception of Cumberland who were dissolved, being unable to field a competitive team. Their last premiership match turned out to be a 45–0 loss at the hands of North Sydney on 25 July 1908, a game where the team had to "borrow" two of North Sydney's officials in order to make up a 13-man side. Seven of Cumberland's players ended up going to Western Suburbs the following year, but only three of these players were able to play another premiership match.


1909 NSWRFL season, Teams
Souths lost only one game in the regular season, to Newcastle in Newcastle, 3 days after the Novocastrians had beaten the New Zealand Māori team.


1909 NSWRFL season, Teams
Glebe included Peter Moko, the first player of Polynesian background to play in the premiership.


1909 NSWRFL season, Teams
Newcastle exited the League at the end of the season.


1909 NSWRFL season, Touring sides
During the season the New Zealand national side toured in June–July, followed by the second New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
In 1909 semi-finals were played amongst the four highest placed teams. Top two finishers South Sydney and Balmain were able to win their respective semi-finals. However, after the New South Wales Rugby League had planned a match between the Australian rugby union and rugby league teams that would upstage the premiership final, both South Sydney and Balmain unofficially agreed to not play out a final. But unknown to Balmain, South Sydney turned up ready to play. The final was deemed to be a forfeit as a result, with South Sydney claiming their second premiership in as many years.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Requests from Balmain for the match to be played at a later date were refused by the League. Conflict over whether there was an agreement between the two clubs not to play a final caused a deep-seated resentment towards Souths by Balmain which lasted many years. It was the most dramatic action ever taken by a rugby league club – the 1909 Balmain team forfeited the premiership Final. Arguments have raged as to what led to Balmain's actions, and the day's events have caused the 'Tigers' and the South Sydney Rabbitohs to generally harbour nothing but ill-will towards each other ever-since.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
The seeds of the dramatic events of 1909 lay in the years before rugby league was formed, back when Balmain and Souths were rugby union clubs.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
In 1900 the Metropolitan Rugby Union (MRU) replaced the private clubs of the 1800s with district clubs.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
This was done to more evenly distribute the talent between clubs, and to build upon the growing support for suburban based clubs.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
While Balmain had use of 'the best ground in the colony' in Birchgrove Park [Oval], the MRU inexplicably ignored its 'home-and-away' scheduling for club matches, and refused to allocate South Sydney matches anywhere but at the SCG or Sports Ground.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Between 1900 and 1906, Souths and Balmain had met 14 times, yet the 'red-and-greens' had only twice been required to play at Birchgrove.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
While most clubs trained indoors at night or on fields under moonlight, Souths and Easts had exclusive use of the lights of the Sports Ground. Understandably, other clubs, particularly Balmain and Norths felt that Souths and Easts were receiving favourable treatment.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
The newspapers and opposing fans had come to call the Balmain club "the Balmainiacs". Unafraid to vent their feelings, especially at home games, Balmain were not the most popular club amongst Sydney 'rugbyites'.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
When the opportunity came to join the newly formed rugby league in the early months of 1908, most rugby union clubs lost approximately half of their players and members. In Balmain's case, the League got just about everybody.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
When the Balmain Union club held its first meeting of 1908, all the district's League supporters attended and voted against the election of every official for the coming season.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
While they really had no cause to even be at the Union club's meeting, the presence of the League supporters prevented the Union club from being formed for the coming season. The MRU organised the follow-up meeting for the same night as the next Balmain League meeting, just so it could carry on its business.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
By the start of the 1909 season, the NSWRL was in a dire financial crisis – its founding fathers, James Giltinan, Victor Trumper and 'Harry' Hoyle, all lost their positions.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Under the stewardship of North Sydney's Alexander Knox, the NSWRL convinced the clubs to forgo their gate receipts from matches, and hand it all over to the League.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
It quickly became apparent to Knox that the only club attracting reasonable crowds was Balmain at Birchgrove Park. Consequently, Balmain were given a home game in almost every round.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
As a result, they enjoyed great on-field success and climbed the premiership ladder. Balmain reached the Final against South Sydney.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
However, as Souths had won the minor premiership by two points, the NSWRL play-offs system meant that Balmain had to beat them in the Final, and then beat them again in a second Final to claim the title. It seemed unlikely.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Balmain lobbied the NSWRL to schedule the Final at Wentworth Park, which was half-way between the two districts. The League refused, and put the match on at the Agricultural Ground – Souths home field.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Balmain's complaints were quickly overtaken by outside events when more than half of the 1908 Wallabies team suddenly defected to rugby league for a series of matches against the Kangaroos.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Knox publicly criticised the NSWRL officials who were involved in 'bringing-down' the NSWRU via paying huge sums to the Wallabies. Other officials did not see a problem with the League's actions, and Knox soon lost his position on the NSWRL.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Funded by entrepreneur James Joynton-Smith, the three 'Wallabies v Kangaroos' matches did not earn enough gate-money to fully cover his costs or those of the NSWRL. So a fourth game was arranged. To increase interest and gate-takings, the NSWRL scheduled the Final on the under-card.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Balmain were seemingly aggrieved at the demotion of importance of the Final, and asked the NSWRL to ensure it was played on a separate day. They also argued that their players' labour should not go towards paying money owed to Joynton-Smith and the NSWRL. The League refused and Balmain announced that they would not play.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
On the day of the Final the Balmain players arrived outside the ground in the early afternoon, well before the scheduled kick-off time of 2 o’clock. They then picketed the entrance, endeavouring to convince patrons not to enter.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Despite very heavy rain and the protests of the Balmain footballers, enough of a crowd turned up to clear the debts of Joynton-Smith and the NSWRL. Balmain stuck to their word and did not appear on the field. Souths kicked off, picked up the ball and scored a try. The referee awarded them the match, and with it the 1909 premiership.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
In the days that followed a public meeting was held at Balmain to decide what to do about challenging Souths being credited as premiers. It then became apparent what Balmain had been trying to achieve. The first speaker at the meeting was North Sydney's Alexander Knox. He had convinced Balmain to forfeit the Final in the hope that the NSWRL would not earn enough money to pay off its debts or be able to reimburse Joynton-Smith.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
With the NSWRL bankrupted, Balmain and Norths officials would lead the formation of a new rugby league body – one in which they, and not South Sydney and Easts, would be the dominant office-holders. With little hope of winning the premiership, Balmain felt they had more to gain by causing the NSWRL to collapse.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Further meetings were held, attempting to instigate legal proceedings and investigate forming a new League, but they eventually stalled.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
In the opening round of the 1910 competition, the NSWRL scheduled a 're-match' between Souths and Balmain at Birchgrove Park to appease the local supporters.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
'The Balmainiacs' responded by establishing a record crowd for a NSWRL club match of over 5,000. The home team though were beaten 13–5 in a very tough and physical encounter.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
The Referee thought it necessary to praise the Birchgrove crowd for their behaviour, offering: "Naturally they like to see their favourites win, and what district does not? In the present instance, however, their team had to play second fiddle, but as sports they took the defeat in good spirit, and liberally applauded the visitors".


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
At the first NSWRL meeting of 1910, Norths' Alexander Knox was banned from rugby league for life.


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Members of the South Sydney side who showed up on Grand Final day and won by forfeit were:


1909 NSWRFL season, Finals
Arthur Butler • Arthur Conlin (c) • Harry Butler • Howard Hallett • T.Anderson • J.Davis • Frank Storie  • Ed Fry • Dick Green • Jack Coxon •  Billy Cann • P.Carroll • Arthur Hennessy (coach)


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades
With varying consistency, results were published in newspapers: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Evening News, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Sun. The first three are currently available in digital format on the National Library of Australia's Trove website. The latter two newspapers are available on microfilm at the State Library of NSW. The results published in these newspapers have been used to compile the tables below, particularly The Sunday Sun which published the most lower grade results.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Second Grade
Eight teams competed in the Second Grade competition: Balmain, Eastern Suburbs, Glebe, North Sydney, South Sydney, Sydney and Western Suburbs. Second grade followed the same draw as First Grade, with the exception that Sydney replaced Newcastle. Many but not all second grade matches were played on the same ground used later that day for first grade matches involving the same pairing of clubs.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Second Grade
League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played (excluding forfeits); W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Points scored in matches; PA = Points conceded in matches; PD = Points difference; WF = Forfeits received; LF = Forfeits conceded; NP = Matches not played due to the probable withdrawal of Western Suburbs; Pts = Competition Points. Fixtures = Number of fixtures.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Second Grade
^ a: The tally includes the estimated score (60 to 0) when Sydney beat a ten-man South Sydney side on 7 August. ^ b: Western Suburbs forfeited on 26 June and were not listed in fixtures after a match they did play on 10 July, so it is probable that they dropped out. This table assumes that two points were awarded to Newtown and South Sydney who would have played Western Suburbs. ^ c: The Sunday Sun reported that Western Suburbs received a forfeit from Newtown on 24 April and that the match was played. Some Newtown players went to the wrong ground. Players from Wests made up the numbers for Newtown. The points scored in this match, Wests 14 defeated Newtown 2, are excluded from the For and Against in this table.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Second Grade
The semi-finals were played on 14 August. Glebe 15 defeated Sydney 6 at Wentworth Park and Eastern Suburbs 14 beat North Sydney 0 at Birchgrove.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Second Grade
The second grade final was played on 4 September as a curtain-raiser to the first Wallabies v Kangaroos match. The two teams had not met since the opening weekend, when Glebe had won by 15 to 3. Eastern Suburbs reversed that result, winning the final, 11 points to 7, to claim the premiership.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Third Grade
Nine teams competed in the Third Grade competition: Balmain, Eastern Suburbs, Glebe, South Sydney and Sydney were joined by Drummoyne on 1 May and Rozelle on 22 May. South Sydney Federal were listed to play Newtown on 1 May and 15 May but their first actual match played appears to be on 22 May. All three new clubs began with a win.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Third Grade
North Sydney and Western Suburbs were listed to play in Third Grade on the season opening Saturday, 24 April, but no result was published and they were not subsequently mentioned in Third Grade during 1909.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Third Grade
The late withdrawals, late entries, missing results and multiple forfeits make it difficult to reconstruct an accurate competition table.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Third Grade
League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. P&RK = Games played (excluding forfeits) where the result is known; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Points scored in matches where result is known; PA = Points conceded in matches where result is known; PD = Points difference; WF = Forfeits received; LF = Forfeits conceded; Pts = Competition Points from known wins, draws, byes and forfeits received; Unknown = Matches listed as fixtures where the result is not known; Fixtures = Number of fixtures.


1909 NSWRFL season, Lower Grades, Third Grade
The semi-finals were played on 14 August at the Royal Agricultural Ground. South Sydney Federal 16 defeated Drummoyne 0 and Rozelle 8 beat Eastern Suburbs 2. The third grade final was played on 21 August as a curtain-raiser to an Australia versus New Zealand Maori match, "A good game ended in a win for the South Sydney team by 2 points to nil. Turnbull kicked a penalty goal. As the points indicate the tussle was a close one all through."


1909 NYU Violets football team
The 1909 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1909 college football season. In their third year under head coach Herman Olcott, the team compiled a 6–0–1 record.


1909 Natal Union of South Africa membership referendum
A referendum on joining the Union of South Africa was held in the Colony of Natal on 10 June 1909. It was approved by 75% of voters, and Natal became part of the Union when it was established on 31 May 1910.


1909 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1909 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1909 college football season. In their second season under Frank Berrien, the Midshipmen compiled a 4–3–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 99 to 42.


1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1909 college football season. The team was coached by third-year head coach William C. "King" Cole and played its home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA).


1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Prior to the start of the 1909 season, the university constructed Nebraska Field, located on campus adjacent to where Memorial Stadium was later built. It replaced Antelope Field, where NU had played its home games since 1897.


1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Beltzer, Oren HBBentley, Orlando QBChauner, Walter ECollins, Sydney CDobson PLAYERElliott, E.B. GEwing, Henry RGFrank, Owen HBHarte, Louis LTHascoll, Vincent QBJohnson, Frank ELofgren, Gus EMagor, Louis EMcDonald HBRathbone, Harvey FBSchauner EShonka, Sylvester CSpellmeyer RTSturmer, Frederick LTSturzenegger, Alfonzo FBTemple, LeRoy RTWendstrand PLAYERWenstrand, Ralph RGWolcott, O.M. LG


1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
After seven consecutive games in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Nebraska faced off in Nebraska for a second time.


1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
After two Iowa field goals, Nebraska recovered its own fumble in the end zone, and the game ended in a 6–6 tie.


1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
Two 15-yard Nebraska penalties late in the game led to a game-winning punt return touchdown by Kansas.


1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Denver
Nebraska scored its only touchdown off a muffed Denver kick return, and held on for a 6–5 win.


1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Haskell
Haskell blocked five Nebraska punts, and rode the favorable field position to a 16–5 victory.


1909 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team
The 1909 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) as an independent during the 1909 college football season. In their first year under head coach J. H. Squires, the Aggies compiled a 1–3–1 record. The team played its home games at Miller Field.


1909 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1909 were appointments by King Edward VII to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were announced on 5 January 1909.


1909 New Year Honours
By Special Statutes of the Order of the Star of India and the Order of the Indian Empire, dated 10 December 1908 and published in the same Gazette as the appointments, the King was empowered to appoint additional members to the second and third classes of those Orders (KCSI, CSI, KCIE and CIE) on 1 January 1909, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the assumption of the government of India by the Crown "without permanently increasing the number of the Ordinary Members of the Order." The members so appointed are indicated with a # in the list below.


1909 New York Giants season
The 1909 New York Giants season was the franchise's 27th season. The team finished in third place in the National League with a 92–61 record, 18½ games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.


1909 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1909 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1909 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1909 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1909 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1909 New York Highlanders season
The 1909 New York Highlanders season saw the team finishing with a total of 74 wins and 77 losses, coming in 5th in the American League.


1909 New York Highlanders season
New York was managed by George Stallings, the team's fourth manager in as many years. Games were played at Hilltop Park. The alternate and equally unofficial nickname, "Yankees", was being used more and more frequently by the media. The eventually-famous curving "NY" logo appeared for the first time, on the sleeve and cap of the uniform.


1909 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1909 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1909 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1909 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1909 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia
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1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia
The 1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia was a tour made by a group of New Zealand Māori rugby footballers who played rugby league matches in Queensland and New South Wales. The tour followed on from another Māori tour of Australia the previous year and a tour by the New Zealand national side a month earlier. The Māori side played the Australian national side four times, winning one of the "test" matches.


1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia, The tour
Following the first "test", won by the Māori 16-14, about 5,000 of the 30,000 crowd invaded the pitch, upset with the standard of refereeing. Only about a dozen police were present and it took them almost an hour to assist the referee from the ground.


1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia, The tour
Before the fourth "test" nine players from the tour were detained, after Robert Jack claimed he was owed money relating to the 1908 tour. The NSWRL paid Jack his claimed debt, rather than risk the match being called off.


1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia, The tour
The team were awarded the O T Punch Cup for their victories over Sydney teams. The cup had been damaged when the crowd invaded the pitch in the first "test".


1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia, Aftermath
The 1909 side was the first to wear a kiwi emblem on their uniforms. The New Zealand national side is now called the Kiwis.


1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia, Squad
Only 19 players were involved in the squad, with a maximum of 18 available for selection at any one time. Seventeen travelled with the main party, however Nirai Chareure broke his collarbone after the first match. Tohe Herangi joined the touring party after the first match and Hone Tuki arrived in time for the first 'test' match.


1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia, Squad
Mākereti (Maggie) and Murai (Bella) Papakura and two Māori chiefs travelled with the side. NSW selector Denis Lutge was assigned to the team as an advisor.


1909 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia, Match results
Before the side left New Zealand they lost 14-21 to Auckland on 10 July 1909 at Victoria Park in front of 2-3,000 spectators.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1909 New Zealand rugby league season was the second season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand toured Australia, losing the series 1-2. The team was managed by Daniel Fraser while James Barber captained the side. The squad included William Trevarthen, Adam Lile, Conrad Byrne, Harold Rowe, George and John Spencer, Con Sullivan and Charlie Pearce, Ernie Buckland, Arthur Carlaw, Paddy George, Gordon Hooker, Thomas Houghton, Albert House, Bert King, Henry Knight and Ronald MacDonald. Albert Asher was invited to tour with the side but declined, opting to remain in Auckland and organise the upcoming Māori tour of Australia. These were the last tests between New Zealand and Australia on Australian soil until 1948.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
A New Zealand Māori side also toured Australia, the second Māori team to do so. The team was captained by Riki Papakura and included Albert and Ernie Asher, Jim Rukutai and Frank Barclay. Before the side left New Zealand they lost 14-21 to Auckland on 10 July 1909 at Victoria Park in front of 2-3,000 spectators.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Inter-district competitions
Auckland played two matches against Taranaki. Taranaki won the first match at Victoria Park 8-7 on 7 August in front of 5,00 fans before losing 11-27 at the New Plymouth Sports Ground on 16 September. Lance Todd served as the referee for both matches. Adam Lile was the Taranaki player-coach and the side included Arthur Hardgrave and Lance Moir.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Inter-district competitions
The Auckland team for the first match was; T Houghton, A Chorley, F Woodward, A Carlaw, captain D Wynyard, R MacDonald, A Jackson, F Wells, B Mackrell, C Dunning, J Griffen, Linkhorn and Seagar. Bill Tyler, Alex Stanaway, Albert Asher and Dick Papakura all appeared for Auckland later in the season.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Inter-district competitions
Wellington defeated Auckland, in Auckland, 22-19 on 9 October. This was the first of only five victories for Wellington over Auckland in over 100 years. Wellington included Conrad Byrne, Tom Cross, Con Sullivan, George and John Spencer and Hercules Richard Wright.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Inter-district competitions
Rotorua, who included Dick Papakura, defeated an Auckland XIII 33-8 in Rotorua. Auckland included Bill Tyler but the Auckland selectors underestimated the quality of the Rotorua side and picked an understrength side. Auckland fullback Archie Ferguson broke his leg in the match and retired, becoming a referee. Ferguson controlled the 1910 Auckland match against Great Britain and toured Australia twice, as a referee in 1919 and as a co-manager of New Zealand in 1930.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions
The Auckland Rugby League was formed on 19 July 1909 at the Auckland Chamber of Commerce boardroom with 150 people present. MP Albert Glover chaired the meeting and was elected a vice-president. The Mayor of Auckland, Charles Grey was elected president while Billy Wynyard was elected treasurer. Within days three clubs had been formed; City Rovers, Devonport United (later North Shore) and Newton Rangers. Ponsonby United had been formed in 1908. Duncan McLean was the first chairman of both Devonport United and the Auckland Rugby League.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions
There was also a three club sub-league in Rotorua that affiliated itself to the ARL.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions
The first ARL sanctioned match was held on 24 July 1909 at Eagleton's Ground in Epsom. The North Shore club defeated a City combination 44-24. The City combination consisted of players involved in forming all three of the clubs on that side of the harbour and included Bill Tyler, captain Arthur Carlaw, Thomas Houghton, Alf Chorley and Charles Dunning. The North Shore were captained by Dick Wynyard and included Frank Woodward.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions
Ponsonby United held its first AGM on 30 July 1909. James Carlaw was elected the first Chairman while Charles Dunning, Jack Stanaway and Arthur Carlaw were elected to the executive.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions
Ponsonby United defeated the Newton Rangers 16-6 on 21 August at Victoria Park. They also played the North Shore and City during the year. Bill Tyler, Charles Dunning and Arthur Carlaw were among the 32 players that played for Ponsonby that year.


1909 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions
The City Rovers included Ernie and Albert Asher, Jim Rukutai and Alex Stanaway.


1909 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia
The 1909 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia was a tour by the New Zealand national rugby league team. The New Zealand national rugby league team lost to Australia 1-2 in the three match test series.


1909 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia, Background
Following the pioneering 1907-08 All Golds tour, rugby league was developing in both New Zealand and Australia. A successful 1908 New Zealand Māori rugby league tour of Australia had taken place and helped the NSWRFL establish itself in Sydney. This tour, the second by a New Zealand national side, took place during the 1909 NSWRFL season.


1909 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia, Squad
The team was managed by Daniel Fraser while James Barber captained the side. Albert Asher was invited to tour with the side but declined, opting to remain in Auckland and organise the upcoming Māori tour of Australia. Charlie Pearce and Daniel Gilchrist were also named but withdrew. The full squad was;


1909 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia, Fixtures
Henry Knight and Billy Cann were sent off by referee Charles Hutchinson in the second half after an altercation. The two shook hands as they left the field. It was the last test between Australia and New Zealand on Australian soil until 1948


1909 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia, Fixtures
The Australians were awarded the Black and White Challenge Cup for winning the series and the New Zealanders left Australia on the steamer Ulimaroa the same day.


1909 Newfoundland general election
The 1909 Newfoundland general election was held on 8 May 1909 to elect members of the 22nd General Assembly of Newfoundland in the Dominion of Newfoundland. The Newfoundland People's Party led by Edward P. Morris, having secured a majority, formed the government.


1909 News of the World Match Play
The 1909 News of the World Match Play was the seventh News of the World Match Play tournament. It was played from Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7 October at Walton Heath Golf Club. 32 players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 18 holes, except for the final which was over 36 holes. The winner received £100 out of a total prize fund of £240. Tom Ball defeated Sandy Herd 7 & 5 in the final to win the tournament.


1909 News of the World Match Play, Qualification
Entry was restricted to members of the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA). Qualification was by a series of 36-hole stroke-play competitions; one for each of the seven PGA sections. The Southern section had 13 qualifiers, the Northern section 7, the Midland and the Scottish sections 4, the Irish section 2 and the Welsh and Western sections 1. Compared to 1908 one entry was allocated to the new Western section with the number of qualifiers from the Southern section reduced to 13. In the event of a tie for places there was a playoff.


1909 News of the World Match Play, Format
The format was unchanged. Matches were over 18 holes except for the final which was over 36 holes. Extra holes were played in the event of a tied match. Two rounds were played on the first day, two more on the second day with the final on the third day.


1909 News of the World Match Play, Prize money
The winner received £100 and a gold medal, the runner-up £30 and a silver medal, the losing semi-finalists £15 and a bronze medal, while the third round losers received £10 and the second round losers received £5.


1909 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team
The 1909 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1909 college football season.


1909 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1909 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1909 college football season. The team captain of the 1909 season was C.C. Garrett.


1909 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1909 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1909 college football season. In their first year under head coach Arthur Rueber, the team compiled a 2–2–1 record.


1909 North Sligo by-election
The North Sligo by-election of 1909 was held on 5 August 1909. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, Patrick Aloysius McHugh. It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate Thomas Scanlan, who was unopposed.


1909 Northern Illinois State Normal football team
The 1909 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1909 college football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Nelson A. Kellogg and played their home games at Glidden Field, located on the east end of campus. The team finished the season with a 2–6 record.


1909 Northern Maori by-election
The 1909 Northern Maori by-election was a by-election during the 17th New Zealand Parliament. The election was held on 20 March 1909.


1909 Northern Maori by-election
The seat of Northern Maori became vacant following the death of the sitting member Hone Heke Ngapua on 9 February.


1909 Northern Maori by-election
Both Hone Heke Ngapua and Te Rangi Hiroa were Liberal Party MPs, and part of the Liberal Government.


1909 Northwestern Purple football team
The 1909 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1909 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach Bill Horr, the Purple compiled a 1–3–1 record (1–3 against Western Conference opponents) and finished in sixth place in the Western Conference.


1909 Norwegian Football Cup
The 1909 Norwegian Football Cup was the eighth season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The tournament was open for 1909 local association leagues (kretsserier) champions, except in Smaalene and Kristiania og omegn where a separate cup qualifying tournament was held. Lyn won their second consecutive title.


1909 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway between 2 and 25 October 1909, with a second round held between 18 October and 11 November. The result was a victory for the alliance of the Conservative Party and the Liberal Left Party, which won 64 of the 123 seats in the Storting.


1909 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 1909 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1909 college football season.


1909 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1909 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University during the 1909 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Albert E. Herrnstein, the Buckeyes compiled a 7–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 219 to 76.


1909 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team
The 1909 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1909 college football season. This was the ninth year of football at A&M and the first under Paul J. Davis. The Aggies played their home games in Stillwater, Oklahoma. They finished the season 5–3.


1909 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1909 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1909 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Bennie Owen, the Sooners compiled a 6–4 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 203 to 107.


1909 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1909 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1909 college football season. Under first year head coach Nathan Stauffer, the team posted a 4–3–2. In the 9 to 5 victory in the Egg Bowl, Earl Kinnebrew was called by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger "the particular star of his team."


1909 Olivet football team
The 1909 Olivet football team represented Olivet College during the 1909 college football season.


1909 Open Championship
The 1909 Open Championship was the 49th Open Championship, held 10–11 June at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club in Deal, Kent, England. J.H. Taylor won the Championship for the fourth time, six strokes ahead of runners-up Tom Ball and James Braid. Royal Cinque Ports had been added as the sixth course on the Open rota at a meeting in November 1907 at which meeting it was decided it would host in 1909. The meeting also agreed that the Championship was to be played in England and Scotland alternately.