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1909 New Hampshire football team

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1909 New Hampshire football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4
Head coach
CaptainHarold C. Read[1][a]
Home stadiumCollege grounds, Durham, NH
Seasons
← 1908
1910 →
1909 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     10 0 0
Lafayette     7 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     9 1 0
Harvard     9 1 0
Penn State     5 0 2
Washington & Jefferson     8 1 1
Springfield Training School     5 1 0
NYU     6 1 1
Ursinus     6 1 1
Penn     7 1 2
Trinity (CT)     6 1 2
Dartmouth     5 1 2
Fordham     5 1 2
Princeton     6 2 1
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Carlisle     8 3 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Brown     7 3 1
Geneva     4 2 0
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Vermont     4 2 2
Lehigh     4 3 2
Army     3 2 0
Villanova     3 2 0
Dickinson     4 4 1
Syracuse     4 5 1
Bucknell     3 4 2
Boston College     3 4 1
Cornell     3 4 1
New Hampshire     3 4 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 0
Rutgers     3 5 1
Wesleyan     3 5 1
Holy Cross     2 4 2
Swarthmore     2 5 0
Drexel     1 5 3
Tufts     2 6 0
Amherst     1 6 1
Temple     0 4 1

The 1909 New Hampshire football team[b] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[c] during the 1909 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under first-year head coach Willard Gildersleeve,[4] the team finished with a record of 3–4.

Schedule

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Scoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and three points for a field goal.[d] Teams played in the one-platoon system, and games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 at Holy Cross L 0–13 [5][6]
October 9 at Maine Orono, ME (rivalry) L 0–16 [7]
October 16 Bates Durham, NH L 0–16 [8]
October 23 Boston College Durham, NH W 11–6 [9]
October 30 at Vermont L 0–11 [10][11]
November 6 Massachusetts Manchester, NH (rivalry) W 17–0 [12]
November 13 Rhode Island State Durham, NH W 11–5 [13]

Team

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Varsity letters were awarded to 13 players and the team's student manager:[16]

Coach Gildersleeve was paid $400 ($13,564 in 2023) for coaching the team for the season.[18]

Notes

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  1. ^ James M. Leonard had been selected as 1909 captain-elect at the close of the 1908 season, but he did not return to college.[2]
  2. ^ The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926;[3] 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. ^ A field goal had been worth four points during 1904–1908, and five points in 1903 and earlier.

References

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  1. ^ "H. C. Read Now Football Captain". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 1. October 1909. p. 7. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "State College". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. September 21, 1909. p. 2. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  4. ^ "Coach Gildersleeve". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 1. October 1909. pp. 6–7. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ "Holy Cross, 13; New Hampshire, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 2. November 1909. pp. 29–30. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ "Holy Cross 13, N.H.S.C. 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 3, 1909. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "University of Maine, 16; New Hampshire, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 2. November 1909. p. 30. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ "Bates, 16; New Hampshire, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 2. November 1909. pp. 30–31. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ "New Hampshire, 11; Boston College, 6". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 3. December 1909. pp. 52–53. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  10. ^ "Vermont, 11; New Hampshire, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 3. December 1909. pp. 53–54. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  11. ^ "Vermont wins last home game". The Burlington Free Press. November 1, 1909. Retrieved June 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "New Hampshire, 17; Massachusetts, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 3. December 1909. pp. 54–57. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ^ "New Hampshire, 11; Rhode Island, 5". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 3. December 1909. pp. 57–59. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  14. ^ "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Wayback Machine.
  15. ^ "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
  16. ^ "Athletics". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 3. December 1909. p. 52. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  17. ^ "Manager B. W. Proud, '10". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 1. October 1909. pp. 7–8. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  18. ^ "Financial Statement of Football Season of 1909". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 17, no. 3. December 1909. p. 88. Retrieved November 28, 2024 – via Internet Archive.