1899 New Hampshire football team

The 1899 New Hampshire football team[lower-alpha 3] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[lower-alpha 4] during the 1899 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 3–3–1 or 4–2, per 1899 sources or modern sources, respectively.

1899 New Hampshire football
ConferenceIndependent
1899 record4–2[lower-alpha 1]
Head coach
  • None
CaptainUnknown[lower-alpha 2]
Home stadiumCollege grounds, Durham, NH
1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard   –    10 –0 –1
Buffalo   –    6 –0 –0
Lafayette   –    12 –1 –0
Princeton   –    12 –1 –0
Boston College   –    8 –1 –1
Carlisle   –    9 –2 –0
Wesleyan   –    7 –2 –0
Pittsburgh College   –    2 –0 –2
Villanova   –    7 –2 –1
Yale   –    7 –2 –1
Western Univ. of Penn.   –    3 –1 –1
Columbia   –    9 –3 –0
Fordham   –    3 –1 –0
Cornell   –    7 –3 –0
Penn   –    8 –3 –2
Brown   –    7 –3 –1
Geneva   –    2 –1 –0
New Hampshire   –    4 –2 –0
Tufts   –    7 –4 –0
Bucknell   –    6 –4 –0
Syracuse   –    4 –4 –0
Army   –    4 –5 –0
Colgate   –    4 –5 –0
Penn State   –    4 –6 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –    3 –5 –1
Amherst   –    4 –7 –1
NYU   –    2 –6 –0
Temple   –    1 –4 –1
Lehigh   –    2 –9 –0
Rutgers   –    2 –9 –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 per 1899 sources per modern sources
Result Source Result Source
September 30 Exeter Academy (second team) Durham, NH W 18–2 [2] not listed
October 7 MIT Durham, NH L 5–6 [3] L 5–6 [4][5]
October 11 at Andover Academy Andover, MA W 6–0 [6] W 6–0 [4][5]
October 14 East Rochester Durham, NH NH second team [7] W 8–0 [4][5]
October 18 Somersworth Durham, NH NH second team [8] W 16–0 [4][5]
October 21 Boston College Durham, NH L 0–6 [9][10] L 0–6 [4][5]
October 28 at Portsmouth Athletic Assoc. Portsmouth, NH T 0–0 [11] not listed
November 1 at Exeter Academy (varsity) Exeter, NH L 0–29 [12][13] not listed
November 4 at Vermont Athletic Park · Burlington, VT W 6–5 [14][15] W 6–5 [4][5]
Overall record (3–3–1) (4–2)

A December editorial in The New Hampshire College Monthly stated that the team's record was 3–3–1,[13] whereas College Football Data Warehouse and the University's media guide list a record of 4–2.[4][5]

Contemporary sources are clear that the Vermont game was played in Vermont;[13] modern sources list the site as Durham.

The October 21 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Boston College football programs.[16] The November 4 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Vermont football programs.[17]

Notes
  1. per the University's media guide; 1899 sources differ
  2. The New Hampshire College Monthly did not publish a team photo, which for the prior five seasons had listed starting players and identified the team captain.
  3. The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926;[1] before then, they were generally referred to as "the blue and white".
  4. The school was often referred to as New Hampshire College or New Hampshire State College in newspapers of the era.

References
  1. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  2. "Football Saturday". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. October 2, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  3. "N. H. C. v. M. I. T." The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 7 no. 2. November 1899. pp. 23–25. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  4. "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  5. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  6. "N. H. C. v. Andover". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 7 no. 2. November 1899. pp. 25–26. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  7. "N. H. C., 2d v. East Rochester". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 7 no. 2. November 1899. pp. 26–27. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  8. "N. H. C., 2d v. Somersworth". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 7 no. 2. November 1899. pp. 27–28. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  9. "Boston College v. N. H. C." The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 7 no. 2. November 1899. pp. 28–29. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  10. "Made One Touchdown". The Boston Globe. October 22, 1899. p. 16. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  11. "Portsmouth A. A. 0; N. H. College 0". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. October 30, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  12. "Exeter vs. N. H. College". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. November 2, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  13. "Editorials". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 7 no. 3. December 1899. pp. 42–43. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  14. "Vermont News". Deerfield Valley Times. Wilmington, Vermont. November 10, 1899. p. 7. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  15. "Lost a Close Game". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. November 6, 1899. p. 6. Retrieved April 20, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  16. "New Hampshire vs Boston College (MA)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  17. "New Hampshire vs Vermont". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
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