1901 New Hampshire football team

The 1901 New Hampshire football team[lower-alpha 2] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[lower-alpha 3] during the 1901 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 0–6, and did not score any points during the season.

1901 New Hampshire football
Conference	Independent
1901 record	0–6
Head coach	None[lower-alpha 1]
Captain	Jenness S. Dearborn[2]
Home stadium	College grounds, Durham, NH

1901 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					12	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					11	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					10	–	1	–	0
Massachusetts			–					9	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					9	–	1	–	1
Syracuse			–					7	–	1	–	0
Holy Cross			–					7	–	1	–	1
Geneva			–					6	–	1	–	1
Army			–					5	–	1	–	2
Western U. of Penn			–					7	–	2	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	3	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					7	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					10	–	5	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					8	–	5	–	0
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	3	–	1
Tufts			–					6	–	6	–	1
Vermont			–					5	–	5	–	1
Dickinson			–					3	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					5	–	7	–	1
Amherst			–					4	–	6	–	2
Brown			–					4	–	7	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	3	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					1	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					1	–	8	–	0
Lehigh			–					1	–	11	–	0
New Hampshire			–					0	–	6	–	0
Rutgers			–					0	–	7	–	0

Schedule

Scoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 21	at Exeter Academy	Exeter, NH	L 0–6	[4][5]
September 28	at Bowdoin	Whittier Field Brunswick, ME	L 0–48	[6]
October 2	at Dartmouth	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH (rivalry)	L 0–51	[7][8][9]
October 19	at Colby	Waterville, ME	L 0–34	[10]
October 24	Colby	Durham, NH	L 0–12	[11][12]
October 26	Boston College	Durham, NH	L 0–17	[13][14]
Source: [15][16]

The team's original schedule had included games against Burdett College, Tufts, and MIT.[2]

The October 2 contest was the first game of the Dartmouth–New Hampshire football rivalry.[17]

In addition to the varsity games listed above, New Hampshire's second team (reserves) defeated South Berwick Academy, 11–6,[18] and lost to a team of Exeter Academy juniors, 23–0.[19] A team of New Hampshire freshmen defeated Newmarket High School, 22–0.[20]

Notes

1. While no coach is listed in the University's media guide, The New Hampshire College Monthly made several mentions of a coach, W. R. Crowell, "an ex-Dartmouth football player."[1]
2. The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926;[3] 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.

References

1. "College News". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 1. October 1901. p. 12. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
2. "Athletics". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 1. October 1901. p. 16. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
3. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
4. "New Hampshire v. Exeter". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 1. October 1901. p. 18. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
5. "First Football Game". The Boston Post. September 22, 1901. p. 5. Retrieved April 25, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
6. "New Hampshire v. Bowdoin". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 1. October 1901. p. 17. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
7. "Dartmouth vs. New Hampshire". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 2. November 1901. pp. 36–37. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
8. "Dartmouth 51, NH College 0". The Boston Globe. October 3, 1901. p. 8. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
9. "Dartmouth 51, NH College 0 (cont'd)". The Boston Globe. October 3, 1901. p. 8. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
10. "Saturday's Football Games". The Berkshire Eagle. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. October 21, 1901. p. 1. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
11. "New Hampshire vs. Colby". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 2. November 1901. pp. 39–41. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
12. "Colby 12, New Hampshire 0". The Boston Globe. October 25, 1901. p. 8. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
13. "New Hampshire vs. Boston College". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 2. November 1901. pp. 41–42. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
14. "Boston College 17, N H College 0". The Boston Globe. October 27, 1901. p. 2. Retrieved April 25, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
15. "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
16. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved April 24, 2020.
17. "New Hampshire vs Dartmouth (NH)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
18. "N. H. 2d vs. South Berwick Academy". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 2. November 1901. pp. 37–38. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
19. "New Hampshire 2d vs. Exeter '03". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 2. November 1901. p. 38. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
20. "N. H. '05 vs. Newmarket H. S." The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 2. November 1901. pp. 38–39. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.

Further reading

• "Athletics". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 9 no. 2. November 1901. pp. 35–36. Retrieved April 24, 2020 – via Wayback Machine. Manager Kendall called a mass meeting of the students on Wednesday, October 16, to decide whether the team was to be disbanded or was to finish out the season.