1918 New Hampshire football team

The 1918 New Hampshire football team[b] was an American football team slated to represent New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[c] during the 1918 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. However, due to World War I, the varsity season was cancelled. The school did field a team composed of Student Army Training Corps (SATC) personnel, which played a five-game schedule.

1918 New Hampshire football
SATC team, from The New Hampshire student newspaper in November 1918
ConferenceIndependent
Recordvarsity: season cancelled
SATC: 2–2–1
Head coach
  • Edson D. Sanborn (SATC)[1]
CaptainWhite (SATC)[1]
Home stadiumCollege Oval[a]
Seasons
← 1917
1919 →
1918 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell  600
Princeton  300
Holy Cross  200
Army  100
Buffalo  610
Columbia  510
Syracuse  510
Pittsburgh  410
Boston College  520
Rutgers  520
Franklin & Marshall  210
Geneva  420
Swarthmore  420
Harvard  210
Fordham  421
Villanova  320
Penn  530
Dartmouth  330
Lehigh  440
Washington & Jefferson  220
New Hampshire  221
Lafayette  340
Brown  230
Tufts  230
Penn State  121
Vermont  011
Drexel  010
NYU  040

Varsity

New Hampshire's varsity team had an eight-game schedule planned, which was released in March 1918.[5] None of the games were played, and by mid-October the season was abandoned, as head coach William "Butch" Cowell was commissioned in the United States Army;[6] he would be discharged in December 1918.[7] The team would have been captained by E. Dewey Graham;[8] he would later captain the 1919 varsity team.

Varsity schedule (cancelled)
DateOpponentSite
October 5Fort McKinleyDurham, NH
October 12BatesDurham, NH
October 19Rhode Island StateDurham, NH
October 26Boston UniversityDurham, NH
November 2at DartmouthHanover, NH
November 9MassachusettsDurham, NH
November 16at Worcester TechWorcester, MA
November 23[d]

SATC

By early November, the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) had selected a 35-man roster and was holding practices.[9] The team was coached by Edson D. "Chuck" Sanborn,[9] who had been captain of New Hampshire's 1908 team.[10] Five games with other teams were organized, most being played after the Armistice with Germany.

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 9 Bates SATC
W 6–0 [11][12][13]
November 16 Fort McKinley
W 15–0400 [14]
November 23 vs. Maine SATC
L 0–20 [15][16]
November 28 vs. Worcester Tech T 0–0700 [17][18]
November 30 vs. MIT
L 3–6300 [19][20]

These games do not appear in New Hampshire's media guide,[21] as this was not a varsity team.

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