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American college football season

1908 New Hampshire football
Team captain Sanborn is at right-center of the middle row, holding football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–7
Head coach
Captain
  • Carroll B. Wilkins (1st game)
  • Edson D. Sanborn (other games)
Home stadiumCollege grounds, Durham, NH
Seasons← 19071909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   11 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Cornell   –   7 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 2 – 1
Army   –   6 – 1 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 2
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 3
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 0
Dickinson   –   5 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 2
Holy Cross   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 3 – 3
Wesleyan   –   3 – 4 – 2
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 3 – 2
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 5 – 2
Rutgers   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   1 – 6 – 1
Villanova   –   1 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 7 – 0
Drexel   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1908 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1908 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under first-year head coach Charles O. Gill, the team finished with a record of 1–7.

Schedule

Scoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and four points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system, and games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 at Brown L 0–34
October 3 Bowdoin Durham, NH L 0–15
October 10 at Colby Portland, ME L 0–6
October 17 at Maine Orono, ME (rivalry) L 4–6
October 24 at Bates Lewiston, ME L 0–11
October 31 Boston College Durham, NH W 18–0
November 7 Massachusetts Manchester, NH (rivalry) L 9–13 1,500+
November 14 at Rhode Island State Kingston, RI L 0–12
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Team

Player Class Position
J. Mortimer Leonard 1910 Left end
Roland B. Hammond 1909 Left tackle
James B. Pettingill 1912 Left tackle
Howard W. Sanborn 1910 (2-year) Left guard
Benjamin F. Proud 1911 Center
Bernard A. Lougee 1909 Center
Ralph C. Morgan 1912 Right guard
Charles S. Richardson 1909 Right tackle
Harold C. Read 1910 Right end
Frank P. Kennedy 1911 Quarterback
Clarence M. Lowd 1912 Left halfback
Edson D. Sanborn 1909 Fullback
Albert Peaslee 1909 Right halfback

Each of the above players was awarded a varsity letter.

Manager: Lee L. Smalley, 1909

Asst. Manager: Brenton W. Proud, 1910

Carroll B. Wilkins and team manager Smalley were also listed as earning varsity letters.

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Notes

  1. Wilkins was initially elected captain but became ineligible prior to the Bowdoin game; Sanborn was then elected captain.
  2. The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926; before then, they were generally referred to as "the blue and white".
  3. The school was often referred to as New Hampshire College or New Hampshire State College in newspapers of the era.
  4. Sanborn later coached the non-varsity 1918 New Hampshire football team during World War I.

References

  1. ^ "Tackles Bowdoin Today". The Boston Globe. October 3, 1908. p. 5. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
  2. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. "Coach C. O. Gill, Yale, '89". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 3. December 1908. pp. 74–76. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  4. "The Brown Game, September 26". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 2. November 1908. p. 55. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  5. "The Bowdoin Game, October 3". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 2. November 1908. p. 55. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  6. "The Colby Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 2. November 1908. pp. 55–56. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  7. "The Maine Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 2. November 1908. p. 56. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  8. "The Bates Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 3. December 1908. p. 66. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  9. "The Boston College Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 3. December 1908. pp. 67–68. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  10. "The Massachusetts Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 3. December 1908. pp. 61–65. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  11. "The Rhode Island Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 3. December 1908. p. 69. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  12. "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Wayback Machine.
  13. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  14. "Wearers of the NH". The Granite. Vol. II. 1910. p. 127. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via unh.edu.
  15. "The Team". The Granite. Vol. II. 1910. p. 130. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via unh.edu.

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