1907 New Hampshire football team

The 1907 New Hampshire football team[lower-alpha 1] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[lower-alpha 2] during the 1907 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under second-year head coach Edward Herr,[lower-alpha 3] the team finished with a record of 1–5–2.

1907 New Hampshire football
Team captain Cone is seated in the center of the photo, holding football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–5–2
Head coach
CaptainCharles F. Cone[1]
Home stadiumCollege grounds, Durham, NH
1907 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale   –  9 –0 –1
Dartmouth   –  8 –0 –1
Penn   –  11 –1 –0
Carlisle   –  10 –1 –0
Temple   –  4 –0 –2
Fordham   –  6 –1 –1
Cornell   –  8 –2 –0
Western U. of Penn.   –  8 –2 –0
Princeton   –  7 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –  7 –2 –0
Lafayette   –  7 –2 –1
Lehigh   –  7 –2 –1
Swarthmore   –  6 –2 –0
Army   –  6 –2 –1
NYU   –  5 –2 –0
Vermont   –  4 –1 –2
Harvard   –  7 –3 –0
Brown   –  7 –3 –0
Penn State   –  6 –4 –0
Syracuse   –  5 –3 –1
Drexel   –  3 –2 –2
Colgate   –  4 –4 –1
Geneva   –  4 –5 –2
Amherst   –  3 –4 –1
Tufts   –  3 –4 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –  4 –6 –0
Rutgers   –  3 –5 –1
Springfield Training School   –  2 –4 –2
Bucknell   –  4 –7 –0
New Hampshire   –  1 –5 –2
Villanova   –  1 –5 –1
Holy Cross   –  1 –7 –2
Wesleyan   –  1 –7 –1
Carnegie Tech   –  1 –8 –0

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.

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21[lower-alpha 4] at Norwich Northfield, VT L 0–10 [3][4]
September 28[lower-alpha 5] at Brown
L 0–16 [5]
October 5 at Colby Waterville, ME T 0–0 [6]
October 9 at Dartmouth
L 0–10 [7][8]
October 19 at Bowdoin Brunswick, ME W 5–0 [9]
October 26 Bates Durham, NH L 0–22 [10]
November 2 Rhode Island State Durham, NH T 6–6 [11]
November 9 Vermont Durham, NH L 0–34 [12]

The September 21 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Norwich football programs.[15]

New Hampshire's second team (reserves) defeated Berwick Academy in Berwick, Maine, 5–4.[16]

Roster

A team roster published early in the season had 32 names;[17] after the season, 13 players plus the student team manager were awarded varsity letters:[18]

NamePositionClassAgeWt. & Ht.
Arthur M. BatchelderQuarterback190822155 / 5'10"
Carl ChaseCenter190922158 / 5'9"
Francis CloughTeam manager1908 
Charles F. ConeHalfback190822170 / 6'1"
Roland B. HammondTackle190920185 / 5'9"
Merritt C. HuseGuard190822178 / 6'1"
James M. LeonardEnd191019150 / 5'8+1⁄2"
Frederick R. McGrail[lower-alpha 6]Guard191019182 / 5'8"
John J. O'ConnorTackle190821168 / 6'1"
Benjamin F. ProudHalfback191121167 / 5'10"
Edson D. SanbornHalfback190920162 / 5'4"
Moses H. SanbornEnd190824158 / 5'10"
George L. WaiteFullback190821160 / 5'11"
Carroll B. WilkinsHalfback190923153 / 5'10"

In December 1908, Carl Chase and another student drowned while canoeing in the nearby Great Bay.[19][20] Edson D. Sanborn later coached the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) personnel of the 1918 New Hampshire football team that competed in place of the varsity.[21]

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. The school was often referred to as New Hampshire College or New Hampshire State College in newspapers of the era.
  3. New Hampshire's media guide lists 1905 as Herr's first season as head coach, but this is not corroborated; see discussion at 1905 New Hampshire football team.
  4. Other sources have the Norwich game on September 20; accounts from 1907 are clear it was September 21.
  5. Other sources have the Brown game on September 27; accounts from 1907 are clear it was September 28.
  6. First name listed as "Frederic" in The Granite yearbook.

Further reading
  • "The Football Outlook". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 1. October 15, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  • "Review of the Football Season". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 3. December 15, 1907. pp. 55–56. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.

References
  1. "The Celebration". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 2. November 15, 1907. p. 36. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  2. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. "The Norwich Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 1. October 15, 1907. pp. 6–7. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  4. "Norwich 10, N. H. State 0". The Daily Journal. Montpelier, Vermont. September 23, 1907. p. 1. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  5. "The Brown Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 1. October 15, 1907. pp. 5–6. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  6. "The Colby Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 1. October 15, 1907. p. 7. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  7. "The Dartmouth Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 1. October 15, 1907. pp. 4–5. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  8. "Dartmouth Wins, 10 To 0: New Hampshire State, Working at a Disadvantage, Puts Up a Great Game". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1907. p. 5 – via newspapers.com.
  9. "The Bowdoin Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 2. November 15, 1907. p. 31. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  10. "Bates, 22; New Hampshire, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 2. November 15, 1907. p. 32. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  11. "The Vermont Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 2. November 15, 1907. pp. 32–33. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  12. "The Rhode Island Game". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 2. November 15, 1907. pp. 33–34. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  13. "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  14. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  15. "New Hampshire vs Norwich (VT)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  16. "Second vs. Berwick Academy". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 2. November 15, 1907. p. 34. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  17. "The Football Squad". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 1. October 15, 1907. p. 3. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  18. "Lettermen". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 3. December 15, 1907. p. 56. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  19. "College Students Drown". The Evening Herald. Fall River, Massachusetts. December 9, 1908. p. 2. Retrieved May 17, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  20. The Granite. Durham, New Hampshire: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 1910. p. 25. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved May 17, 2020 – via library.unh.edu. In Memoriam
  21. The Granite. Durham, New Hampshire: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 1920. pp. 214–215. Archived from the original on February 16, 2020. Retrieved February 19, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
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