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1915 New Hampshire football team

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1915 New Hampshire football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–6–1[a]
Head coach
CaptainKyle C. Westover[1]
Home stadiumCollege grounds, Durham, NH
Seasons
← 1914
1916 →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Columbia     5 0 0
Harvard     8 1 0
Carnegie Tech     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 0
Villanova     6 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 1 1
Colgate     5 1 0
Syracuse     9 1 2
Dartmouth     7 1 1
Tufts     5 1 2
Penn State     7 2 0
Lafayette     8 3 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Temple     3 1 1
Geneva     6 3 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Allegheny     5 3 0
Swarthmore     5 3 0
Army     5 3 1
Lehigh     6 4 0
Holy Cross     3 2 2
Brown     5 4 1
Fordham     4 4 0
NYU     4 4 1
Middlebury     3 4 2
Muhlenberg     4 5 0
Yale     4 5 0
Boston College     3 4 0
Penn     3 5 2
WPI     3 5 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carlisle     3 6 2
Rhode Island State     3 5 0
New Hampshire     3 6 1
Gettysburg     3 6 0
Rochester     3 6 0
Bucknell     2 6 3
Vermont     1 4 2
Williams     1 7 0

The 1915 New Hampshire football team[b] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[c] during the 1915 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under first-year head coach Butch Cowell,[1] the team finished with a record of 3–6–1.[a]

Schedule

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During this era, teams played in the one-platoon system. Scoring values were consistent with the present day: six points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and three points for a field goal.[d]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 at Bowdoin Brunswick, ME L 0–19 [3]
October 2 at Colby
L 0–18 [4]
October 9 Connecticut Durham, NH W 18–0 [5]
October 16 Bates Durham, NH W 6–0 [6]
October 23 at Middlebury Middlebury, VT L 0–14 [7]
October 26 Fort McKinley[e] Durham, NH L 0–6 [8]
October 30 Norwich Durham, NH T 13–13[f] [9][10][11]
November 6 at Vermont L 7–21 [12][13]
November 13 at Worcester Tech
W 20–02,500 [14]
November 20 at Rhode Island State Kingston, RI L 0–19 [15][16][17]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Contemporary sources from 1915 reported the tie game as a New Hampshire win, and one loss as being a practice game; this would yield a 4–5 record.
  2. ^ The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926;[2] 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. ^ For additional detail, see Early history of American football#Scoring table.
  5. ^ The New Hampshire referred to the contest against Fort McKinley as a practice game, and the result is absent from the season summary in The Granite yearbook.
  6. ^ Contemporary newspapers and The Granite yearbook reported a 14–13 victory for New Hampshire.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Football Prospects Good for a Successful Season". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 1. Durham, New Hampshire. September 24, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  2. ^ "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "N. H. Loses First Game to Bowdoin". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 2. Durham, New Hampshire. October 1, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  4. ^ "Colby Defeats N. H. by Score of 18--0". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 3. Durham, New Hampshire. October 8, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  5. ^ "Connecticut Loses to New Hampshire". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 4. Durham, New Hampshire. October 15, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  6. ^ "New Hampshire is Victor Over Bates". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 5. Durham, New Hampshire. October 23, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  7. ^ "Middlebury Trims New Hampshire". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 6. Durham, New Hampshire. October 30, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved December 17, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  8. ^ "Fort McKinley Game". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 6. Durham, New Hampshire. October 30, 1915. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved December 17, 2024 – via UNH.edu. Fort McKinley defeated New Hampshire, 12-6, last Tuesday in a practice game on the home field.
  9. ^ "Just Nosed Out: Norwich Beaten by New Hampshire State, 14 to 13". The Boston Globe. October 31, 1915. p. 9. Retrieved December 17, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "New Hampshire State 14—N. U. 13". News and Advertiser. Northfield, Vermont. November 2, 1915. p. 8. Retrieved December 17, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "New Hampshire State 14 -N. U. 13". Norwich University Record. Vol. VII, no. 13. November 6, 1915. p. 2. Retrieved December 17, 2024 – via archives.norwich.edu.
  12. ^ "Vermont University Defeats N. H. 21-7". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 8. Durham, New Hampshire. November 13, 1915. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved December 12, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  13. ^ "Break comes in University's losing streak". The Burlington Free Press. November 8, 1915. p. 10. Retrieved June 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "New Hampshire Wins Big Game of Year". The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 9. Durham, New Hampshire. November 19, 1915. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved December 12, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  15. ^ "Starts For Kingston, R I". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 20, 1915. p. 7. Retrieved December 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ^ "Rhode Island 19, New Hampshire 0". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1915. p. 15. Retrieved December 12, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Rhode Island State Defeats N. H. C." The New Hampshire. Vol. 5, no. 10. Durham, New Hampshire. December 3, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved December 12, 2024 – via UNH.edu.
  18. ^ "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Wayback Machine.
  19. ^ "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved December 10, 2024.