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1916 New Hampshire football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5–2
Head coach
Home stadiumCollege grounds, Durham, NH
Seasons← 19151917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
New Hampshire     3 5 2
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1916 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under second-year head coach Butch Cowell, the team finished with a record of 3–5–2.

Schedule

During this era, teams played in the one-platoon system. Scoring values were consistent with the present day: six points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and three points for a field goal.

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23 at Dartmouth Hanover, NH L 0–33
September 30 at Maine T 0–0
October 7 at Colby L 0–13
October 12 at Boston College L 0–19
October 14 at Bates L 0–7
October 21 Norwich Durham, NH W 13–0
October 28 Vermont L 9–13
November 4 at Connecticut Storrs, CT W 25–0
November 11 Middlebury Durham, NH T 0–0
November 18 Rhode Island State Durham, NH W 12–0
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Notes

  1. The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926; 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.
  3. For additional detail, see Early history of American football#Scoring table.
  4. Sources differ as to if New Hampshire scored 25 or 26 points.

References

  1. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  2. "U. of M. Was Held Scoreless". Bangor Daily News. October 2, 1916. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Boston College May Try Open Game In Today's Game". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 12, 1916. p. 5. Retrieved May 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Vermont provides surprise". The Boston Globe. October 29, 1916. p. 16. Retrieved June 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Rhode Island Football Record Book" (PDF). University of Rhode Island. 2020. p. 11.
  6. "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Wayback Machine.
  7. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
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