The 1909 Penn Quakers football team represented the

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in the

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. The Quakers finished with a 7–1–2 record in their first year under head coach and

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inductee, Andy Smith. Their only loss was to

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by a 12 to 6 score, a game that snapped Penn's 23-game winning streak and marked the first time a Western team had defeated one of the "Big Four" (Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn). Other significant games included a 12 to 0 victory over

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, a 3-3 tie with

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, a 29 to 6 victory over

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, and a 17 to 6 victory over Cornell. They outscored their opponents by a combined total of 146 to 38. End Harry Braddock was the only Penn player to receive All-America honors in 1909, receiving second-team honors from

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