1918 New Hampshire football team

The 1918 New Hampshire football team[lower-alpha 2] was an American football team slated to represent New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[lower-alpha 3] during the 1918 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. However, due to World War I, the varsity season was cancelled. The school did field a team composed of Student Army Training Corps (SATC) personnel, which played a five-game schedule.

1918 New Hampshire football
SATC team, from The New Hampshire student newspaper in November 1918
ConferenceIndependent
1918 recordvarsity: season cancelled
SATC: 2–2–1
Head coachEdson D. Sanborn (SATC)[1]
CaptainWhite (SATC)[1]
Home stadiumCollege Oval[lower-alpha 1]
1918 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton   –    3 –0 –0
Army   –    1 –0 –0
Buffalo   –    6 –1 –0
Columbia   –    5 –1 –0
Syracuse   –    5 –1 –0
Pittsburgh   –    4 –1 –0
Boston College   –    5 –2 –0
Rutgers   –    5 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    2 –1 –0
Geneva   –    4 –2 –0
Swarthmore   –    4 –2 –0
Harvard   –    2 –1 –0
Fordham   –    4 –2 –1
Villanova   –    3 –2 –0
Penn   –    5 –3 –0
Lehigh   –    4 –3 –0
Dartmouth   –    3 –3 –0
Wash. & Jeff.   –    2 –2 –0
New Hampshire   –    2 –2 –1
Lafayette   –    3 –4 –0
Brown   –    2 –3 –0
Tufts   –    2 –3 –0
Penn State   –    1 –2 –1
Drexel   –    0 –1 –0
NYU   –    0 –4 –0

Varsity

New Hampshire's varsity team had an eight-game schedule planned, which was released in March 1918.[5] None of the games were played, and by mid-October the season was abandoned, as head coach William "Butch" Cowell was commissioned in the United States Army;[6] he would be discharged in December 1918.[7] The team would have been captained by E. Dewey Graham;[8] he would later captain the 1919 varsity team.

Varsity schedule (cancelled)
DateOpponentSite
October 5Fort McKinleyDurham, NH
October 12BatesDurham, NH
October 19Rhode Island StateDurham, NH
October 26Boston UniversityDurham, NH
November 2at DartmouthHanover, NH
November 9MassachusettsDurham, NH
November 16at Worcester TechWorcester, MA
November 23[lower-alpha 4]

SATC

By early November, the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) had selected a 35-man roster and was holding practices.[9] The team was coached by Edson D. "Chuck" Sanborn,[9] who had been captain of New Hampshire's 1908 team.[10] Five games with other teams were organized, most being played after the Armistice with Germany.

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 9 Bates SATC
  • Central Park
  • Dover, NH
W 6–0 [11][12][13]
November 16 Fort McKinley
  • College Oval
  • Durham, NH
W 15–0400 [14]
November 23 vs. Maine SATC
  • Bayside Park
  • Portland, ME
L 0–20 [15][16]
November 28 vs. Worchester Tech
T 0–0700 [17][18]
November 30 vs. MIT
  • Playstead
  • Haverhill, MA
L 3–6300 [19][20]

These games do not appear in New Hampshire's media guide,[21] as this was not a varsity team.

Notes
  1. College Oval (also known as College Field) was New Hampshire's home field through the 1920 season;[2] Memorial Field, dedicated in 1921, was built in the same location.[3]
  2. The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926;[4] 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. The final game of the varsity schedule was listed as "pending".
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References
  1. The Granite. Durham, New Hampshire: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 1920. pp. 214–215. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  2. "New Hampshire State College vs. University of Vermont". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. October 15, 1920. p. 1. Retrieved February 20, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  3. "Alumni Plan Memorial Field to Honor Men Who Died in War". The New Hampshire. 9 (28). May 12, 1920. p. 3. Retrieved February 21, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  4. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  5. "Announce Football Schedule for 1918". The New Hampshire. 7 (21). March 16, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  6. "Contests on Gridiron On Card for Today". North Adams Transcript. North Adams, Massachusetts. October 19, 1918. p. 9. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  7. "Application for Headstone or Marker". fold3.com. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  8. "Graham Made Captain Of New Hampshire Eleven". New-York Tribune. March 17, 1918. p. 17. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  9. "Football Game Today Cancelled". The New Hampshire. 8 (6). November 2, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  10. The Granite. Durham, New Hampshire: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 1910. pp. 130–131. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  11. "Football Game Today at Dover". The New Hampshire. 8 (7). November 9, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  12. "N. H. State 6, Bates 0". The Boston Globe. November 10, 1918. p. 14. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  13. "New Hampshire Defeats Bates". The New Hampshire. 8 (8). November 16, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  14. "Fort McKinley Team Defeated". The New Hampshire. 8 (9). November 23, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  15. "Maine 20, New Hampshire 0". The Boston Globe. November 24, 1918. p. 15. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  16. "New Hampshire Loses to Maine". The New Hampshire. 8 (10). November 30, 1918. p. 4. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  17. "Play Scoreless Battle". The Boston Post. November 29, 1918. p. 17. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  18. "New Hampshire Ties with Tech". The New Hampshire. 8 (10). November 30, 1918. pp. 1–2. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  19. "M. I. T. 6, New Hampshire 3". The Boston Globe. December 1, 1918. p. 15. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  20. "Team Loses Last Game of Season". The New Hampshire. 8 (11). December 11, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  21. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
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