1902 New Hampshire football team

The 1902 New Hampshire football team[lower-alpha 1] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[lower-alpha 2] during the 1902 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 2–3–1, under direction of the program's first head coach, John Scannell.

1902 New Hampshire football
1902 team photo; several players can be seen with nose armor protectors around their necks
Conference	Independent
1902 record	2–3–1
Head coach	John Scannell[1] (1st season)
Captain	Everett G. Davis[2][3]
Home stadium	Central Park, Dover, NH College grounds, Durham, NH

1902 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					11	–	0	–	1
Geneva			–					7	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					11	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	1	–	0
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					7	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					6	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross			–					6	–	2	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					8	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	3	–	0
Amherst			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	4	–	0
Lehigh			–					7	–	3	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					5	–	3	–	0
Columbia			–					6	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Western U. of Penn.			–					5	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	1
Tufts			–					4	–	6	–	1
Fordham			–					2	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
Rutgers			–					3	–	7	–	0
Navy			–					2	–	7	–	1
Drexel			–					1	–	4	–	1
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					1	–	6	–	0
Boston College			–					0	–	8	–	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 24	at Exeter Academy	Exeter, NH	T 0–0	[5][6][7]
October 4	at Andover Academy	Andover, MA	L 0–28	[8]
October 11	at Bowdoin	Whittier Field Brunswick, ME	L 5–35	[9][10]
October 18	at Dover Athletic Assoc.	Central Park Dover, NH	W 23–0	[11][12]
October 25	Boston College	Central Park Dover, NH	W 10–6	[13][14]
October 29	Colby	Durham, NH	L 5–11	[15]
Source: [16][1]

The New Hampshire College Monthly is clear that the Boston College game was played on Saturday, October 25, in Dover;[13] College Football Data Warehouse and the University's media guide list the game as having been played on October 24 in Durham.

In addition to the varsity games listed above, New Hampshire's second team (reserves) lost to the Exeter Academy second team, 5–0,[17] and defeated a team of Exeter Academy seniors, 32–6.[18]

Notes

1. The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926;[4] before then, they were generally referred to as "the blue and white".
2. The school was often referred to as New Hampshire College or New Hampshire State College in newspapers of the era.

References

1. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
2. "Athletics". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 3. December 1902. p. 58. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
3. "Commencement Day". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 8. June 1903. p. 163. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
4. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
5. "Opening of the Football Season". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 1. October 1902. pp. 15–16. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
6. "The Academy Eleven Is Slow In First Game". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. September 25, 1902. p. 1. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
7. "Exeter's First Game". The Boston Globe. September 25, 1902. p. 8. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
8. "Andover, 28; New Hampshire, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 2. November 1902. pp. 38–40. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
9. "Bowdoin, 35; New Hampshire, 5". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 2. November 1902. pp. 41–43. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
10. "New Hampshire Scored". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. October 13, 1902. p. 1. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
11. "N. H., 23; D. A. A., 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 2. November 1902. pp. 43–44. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
12. "New Hampshire Beats Dover". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. October 20, 1902. p. 6. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
13. "Boston College vs. New Hampshire, at Dover". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 2. November 1902. pp. 44–46. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
14. "N. H. S. C. 10, B. C. 6". The Boston Globe. October 26, 1902. p. 9. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
15. "Colby vs. New Hampshire". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 3. December 1902. pp. 59–63. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
16. "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
17. "Exeter 2d, 5; New Hampshire 2d, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 2. November 1902. p. 40. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
18. "N. H. 2d, 32; Exeter '03, 6". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 2. November 1902. p. 41. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.

Further reading

• "Editorial: The Bowdoin Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 10 no. 2. November 1902. p. 32. Retrieved April 26, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.