The 1909 Rose Polytechnic football team represented Rose Polytechnic Institute—now known as

Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) is a private university in Terre Haute, Indiana. Founded in 1874 in Terre Haute, Rose-Hulman is one of the United States' few undergraduate focused engineering and technology universities. Though it sta ...

—as an independent during the

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. Led by second-year head coach

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, Rose Poly compiled a 4–4 record, and played a tough schedule that included Vanderbilt, Notre Dame,

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, and

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. Against Notre Dame, Rose Poly was crushed 60 to 11, but managed to score the first touchdown against the Fighting Irish in two years.

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