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
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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

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

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[d] at Norwich Northfield, VT L 0–10 [3][4]
September 28[e] 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]

Name Position Class Age Wt. & Ht.
Arthur M. Batchelder Quarterback 1908 22 155 / 5'10"
Carl Chase Center 1909 22 158 / 5'9"
Francis Clough Team manager 1908  
Charles F. Cone Halfback 1908 22 170 / 6'1"
Roland B. Hammond Tackle 1909 20 185 / 5'9"
Merritt C. Huse Guard 1908 22 178 / 6'1"
James M. Leonard End 1910 19 150 / 5'8+1⁄2"
Frederick R. McGrail[f] Guard 1910 19 182 / 5'8"
John J. O'Connor Tackle 1908 21 168 / 6'1"
Benjamin F. Proud Halfback 1911 21 167 / 5'10"
Edson D. Sanborn Halfback 1909 20 162 / 5'4"
Moses H. Sanborn End 1908 24 158 / 5'10"
George L. Waite Fullback 1908 21 160 / 5'11"
Carroll B. Wilkins Halfback 1909 23 153 / 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

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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