1900 New Hampshire football team

The 1900 New Hampshire football team^[b] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts^[c] during the 1900 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 1–6–1 or 1–5–1, per 1900 sources or modern sources, respectively.

1900 New Hampshire football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–5–1^[a]
Head coach	None
Captain	Rutherford B. Lewis^[1]^[2]
Home stadium	College grounds, Durham, NH
Seasons ← 1899 1901 →

1900 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					12	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	1	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					8	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					5	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					5	–	2	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	3	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	3	–	2
Holy Cross			–					5	–	3	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	1
Buffalo			–					3	–	2	–	2
Dickinson			–					5	–	4	–	0
Western Univ. of Penn			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	6	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	5	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	4	–	1
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Amherst			–					4	–	7	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	4	–	2
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	6	–	1
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					1	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	8	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	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 1900 sources		per modern sources
			Result	Source	Result	Source
September 26	at Exeter Academy	Exeter, NH	T 0–0	^[4]	T 0–0	^[5]^[6]
September 29	at Bowdoin	Whittier Field · Brunswick, ME	L 0–32	^[7]^[8]^[9]	L 0–32	^[5]^[6]
October 10	at Andover Academy	Andover, MA	L 0–10	^[10]^[2]	L 0–10	^[5]^[6]
October 13	MIT	Durham, NH	L 0–6	^[11]	L 0–6	^[5]^[6]
September 26	Exeter Academy	Durham, NH	L 0–32	^[12]	L 0–32	^[5]^[6]
September 26	Burdett College	Durham, NH	W 18–11	^[13]	W 18–11	^[5]^[6]
November 3	at Tufts	Medford, MA	L 0–28	^[14]^[15]	L 0–28	^[5]^[6]
November 21	at Unity Athletic Club	South End Park · Portsmouth, NH	L 5–12	^[16]^[17]	not listed
Overall record			(1–6–1)		(1–5–1)

The November 21 loss to the Unity Athletic Club was reported in The Portsmouth Herald, but is absent from other sources.

Contemporary sources are clear that the Andover game was played in Massachusetts;^[2] modern sources list the site as Durham. Team captain Lewis suffered a broken leg in the game.^[1]

The original schedule for the team, as published in October 1900, included two games against the University of Maine;^[18] however, the first Maine–New Hampshire game would not occur until 1903.^[19]

The New Hampshire second team (reserves) defeated Dover High School, 11–6, in a game played in Durham on November 15.^[20]

Notes

1. per the University's media guide; 1900 sources differ
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.

References

1. "College News". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 2. November 1900. p. 45. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
2. "Andover Scores Twice". The Boston Globe. October 11, 1900. p. 5. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
3. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
4. "N. H. v. Exeter". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 2. November 1900. p. 47. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
5. . College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
6. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
7. "Bowdoin v. N. H." The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 2. November 1900. p. 47. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
8. "Sporting Notes". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. October 2, 1900. p. 1. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
9. "Other Foot Ball Games". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 30, 1900. p. 10. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
10. "Phillips Andover v. N. H." The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 2. November 1900. p. 48. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
11. "M. I. T. v. N. H." The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 2. November 1900. p. 48. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
12. "Phillips Exeter v. N. H." The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 2. November 1900. pp. 48–49. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
13. "N. H. v. Burdett". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 2. November 1900. p. 49. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
14. "Tufts, 28; New Hampshire, 0". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 3. December 1900. pp. 66–67. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
15. "Sporting Notes". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. November 6, 1900. p. 4. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
16. "Sporting Notes". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. November 20, 1900. p. 3. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
17. "Foot Ball". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. November 22, 1900. p. 1. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
18. "College News". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 8, no. 1. October 1900. p. 23. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
19. . College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
20. "Sporting Notes". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. November 17, 1900. p. 5. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.