1909 Whitman Fighting Missionaries football team

1909 Whitman Fighting Missionaries football
ConferenceNorthwest Conference
Record4–3–1 (1–3 Northwest)
Head coach
Home stadiumAnkeny Field
1909 Northwest Conference football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Washington + 4 – 0 – 0 7 – 0 – 0
Washington State + 2 – 0 – 0 4 – 1 – 0
Oregon 2 – 1 – 0 3 – 2 – 0
Oregon Agricultural 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 2 – 1
Whitman 1 – 3 – 0 4 – 3 – 1
Idaho 0 – 4 – 0 3 – 4 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1909 Whitman Fighting Missionaries football team represented Whitman College as a member of the Northwest Conference during the 1909 college football season. Under second-year head coach J. Merrill Blanchard, Whitman finished with a record of 4–3–1, with a mark of 1–3 in conference play for fifth place in the Northwest. Whitman played their home games at Ankeny Field in Walla Walla, Washington.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Walla Walla High School*
W 8–0 (practice)[1]
October 1Walla Walla High School*
  • Ankeny Field
  • Walla Walla, WA
W 10–0250[2]
October 8Pendleton High School (OR)*
  • Ankeny Field
  • Walla Walla, WA
W 33–0[3]
October 15Columbia College (WA)*
  • Ankeny Field
  • Walla Walla, WA
W 53–0[4]
October 23at IdahoMoscow, IDW 30–6[5][6]
October 29Oregon Agricultural
  • Ankeny Field
  • Walla Walla, WA
L 6–10[7]
November 6at Washington
L 0–173,000[8]
November 12Whitworth*
  • Ankeny Field
  • Walla Walla, WA
T 0–0[9]
November 25Washington State
  • Ankeny Field
  • Walla Walla, WA
L 6–23[10]
  • *Non-conference game

References

  1. ^ "Whitman wins in ragged practice". The Evening Statesman. September 28, 1909. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Another ragged practice game". The Evening Statesman. October 2, 1909. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "High School goes down to defeat". Daily East Oregonian. October 9, 1909. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Whitman piles up the score". The Spokesman-Review. October 16, 1909. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Big teams strike hard games – Whitman surprises the Idaho team". The Spokesman-Review. October 24, 1909. p. 1, part 2. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Google News Archive.
  6. ^ "Whitman won game". Spokane Daily Chronicle. October 25, 1909. p. 5. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Google News Archive.
  7. ^ "O.A.C. defeats Whitman 10 to 6". The Spokesman-Review. October 30, 1909. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Washington the winner". Spokane Daily Chronicle. November 8, 1909. p. 8. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Google News Archive.
  9. ^ "Whitworth got a tie with Whitman". The Tacoma Daily News. November 13, 1909. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Whitman loses to State College through sheer lack of weight to back her skill". The Evening Statesman. November 26, 1909. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
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