1924 New Hampshire football team

The 1924 New Hampshire football team[lower-alpha 1] was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the New England Conference during the 1924 college football season. In its ninth season under head coach William "Butch" Cowell,[lower-alpha 2] the team compiled a 7–2 record, and outscored opponents by a total of 213 to 49. The team played its home games in Durham, New Hampshire, at Memorial Field.[lower-alpha 3]

1924 New Hampshire football
Conference	New England Conference
1924 record	7–2 (2–1 New England)
Head coach	Butch Cowell (9th season)
Captain	Cy Wentworth[1]
Home stadium	Memorial Field

1924 New England Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Connecticut $	4	–	0	–	0			6	–	0	–	2
New Hampshire	2	–	1	–	0			7	–	2	–	0
Maine	1	–	2	–	0			4	–	3	–	1
Massachusetts	0	–	1	–	0			6	–	1	–	1
Rhode Island State	0	–	3	–	0			0	–	7	–	0
$ – Conference champion

Team captain Cy Wentworth c. 1923, in the annual college yearbook

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Colby*	Memorial Field Durham, NH	W 27–0
October 4	Norwich*	Memorial Field Durham, NH	W 46–10		[4]
October 11	at Rhode Island State	Kingston, RI	W 17–6
October 18	at Connecticut	Gardner Dow Field Storrs, CT	L 3–6		[5][6]
October 25	vs. Tufts*	Textile Field Manchester, NH	W 20–0	10,000	[7][8]
November 1	at Lowell Textile*[lower-alpha 4]	Lowell, MA	W 37–6		[9]
November 8	Maine	Memorial Field Durham, NH (rivalry)	W 33–0	4,000+	[10]
November 15	Bates*	Memorial Field Durham, NH	W 30–0		[11]
November 22	at Brown*	Andrews Field Providence, RI	L 0–21		[12]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Source: [13][1]

Cy Wentworth, team captain for a second consecutive season, was an inaugural member of the UNH Wildcats Hall of Fame in 1982.[14]

Notes

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".
2. This was Cowell's 10th year and 9th season as head coach, as the school did not field a varsity team in 1918 due to World War I.
3. Memorial Field remains in use by the New Hampshire women's field hockey team.[3]
4. Lowell Textile is now University of Massachusetts Lowell.

References

1. The Granite. Durham, New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire. 1926. pp. 211–216. Retrieved February 13, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
2. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
3. "Memorial Field Then". unh.edu. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
4. "New Hampshire Leader Scores Four Touchdown". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 5, 1924. p. 38. Retrieved February 14, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
5. "Aggies Win From New Hampshire by Brilliant Last Period Offensive, 6 to 3". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 19, 1924. p. 37. Retrieved February 14, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
6. "Aggies Defeat New Hampshire". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 19, 1924. p. 39. Retrieved February 14, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
7. "Tufts Easy For New Hampshire". The Boston Globe. October 26, 1924. p. 22. Retrieved February 13, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
8. "Tufts Elephant 'Butchered' at Manchester Before 10,000 Fans". The New Hampshire. 15 (6). October 31, 1924. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved February 21, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
9. "Lowell Textile Crumbles Before New Hampshire Advance, 37-6". The New Hampshire. 15 (7). November 7, 1924. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved February 21, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
10. "Maine Eleven Whitewashed 33-0 Before Large Homecoming Crowd". The New Hampshire. 15 (8). November 14, 1924. pp. 1–2, 4. Retrieved February 21, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
11. "New Hampshire Eleven Outplays Bates 30-0 in Last Home Game". The New Hampshire. 15 (9). November 21, 1924. pp. 1–2, 4. Retrieved February 21, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
12. "New Hampshire Bows to Brown". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1924. p. 24. Retrieved February 13, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
13. "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
14. "Hall of Fame". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.