1908 New Hampshire football team

1908 New Hampshire football
1908 New Hampshire football
	Team captain Sanborn is at right-center of the middle row, holding football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–7
Head coach	Charles O. Gill (1st season);
Captain	Carroll B. Wilkins (1st game); Edson D. Sanborn (other games);
Home stadium	College grounds, Durham, NH
	Seasons ← 1907 1909 →

1908 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	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^[b] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts^[c] during the 1908 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under first-year head coach Charles O. Gill,^[3] 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.

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	L 0–34		^[4]
October 3	Bowdoin	Durham, NH	L 0–15		^[5]
October 10	at Colby	Portland, ME	L 0–6		^[6]
October 17	at Maine	Orono, ME (rivalry)	L 4–6		^[7]
October 24	at Bates	Lewiston, ME	L 0–11		^[8]
October 31	Boston College	Durham, NH	W 18–0		^[9]
November 7	Massachusetts	Manchester, NH (rivalry)	L 9–13	1,500+	^[10]
November 14	at Rhode Island State	Kingston, RI	L 0–12		^[11]
Source: ^[12]^[13]

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^[d]	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.

Source:^[14]^[15]

Notes

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

References

^ ^a ^b "Tackles Bowdoin Today". The Boston Globe. October 3, 1908. p. 5. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "The Colby Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 2. November 1908. pp. 55–56. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "The Maine Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 2. November 1908. p. 56. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "The Bates Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 3. December 1908. p. 66. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "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.
^ "The Massachusetts Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 3. December 1908. pp. 61–65. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "The Rhode Island Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 3. December 1908. p. 69. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "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.
^ "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
^ "Wearers of the NH". The Granite. Vol. II. 1910. p. 127. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via unh.edu.
^ "The Team". The Granite. Vol. II. 1910. p. 130. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via unh.edu.

1908 New Hampshire football team

Schedule

Team

Notes

References

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