1920 New Hampshire football team

The 1920 New Hampshire football team[lower-alpha 2] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[lower-alpha 3] during the 1920 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. In its fifth season under head coach William "Butch" Cowell,[lower-alpha 4] the team compiled a 5–2–1 record, while outscoring their opponents by a total of 124 to 53.

1920 New Hampshire football
ConferenceIndependent
1920 record5–2–1
Head coachButch Cowell (5th season)
CaptainHarold I. Leavitt[1]
Home stadiumCollege Oval[lower-alpha 1]
1920 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Boston College   –    8 –0 –0
Harvard   –    8 –0 –1
Princeton   –    6 –0 –1
Penn State   –    7 –0 –2
Pittsburgh   –    6 –0 –2
Army   –    7 –2 –0
Dartmouth   –    7 –2 –0
Cornell   –    6 –2 –0
Syracuse   –    6 –2 –1
Geneva   –    5 –2 –1
New Hampshire   –    5 –2 –1
Brown   –    6 –3 –0
Wash. & Jeff.   –    6 –3 –1
Penn   –    6 –4 –0
Carnegie Tech   –    5 –3 –0
Lafayette   –    5 –3 –0
Williams   –    5 –3 –0
Yale   –    5 –3 –0
Fordham   –    4 –3 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    3 –2 –2
Columbia   –    4 –4 –0
Duquesne   –    3 –3 –1
NYU   –    2 –5 –1
Rhode Island State   –    0 –4 –4
Tufts   –    2 –6 –0
Rutgers   –    2 –7 –0
Colgate   –    1 –5 –2
Villanova   –    1 –5 –1
Drexel   –    0 –6 –0
Team captain Harold I. Leavitt c. 1919, in the annual college yearbook

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Bates
  • College Oval
  • Durham, NH
W 14–0 [5]
October 9 at Boston University
W 7–02,000 [6][7]
October 16 Vermont
  • College Oval
  • Durham, NH
L 0–7 [8]
October 23 at Connecticut
  • Gardner Dow Field
  • Storrs, CT
W 40–0 [9]
October 30 at Massachusetts
W 9–0 [10]
November 6 Colby
  • College Oval
  • Durham, NH
T 7–7 [11]
November 13 at Maine
W 47–7 [12]
November 20 at Holy Cross
L 0–325,000 [13]

The 1920 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Boston University football programs.[15]

Team captain Harold I. Leavitt would go on to become superintendent of properties at the University of New Hampshire from 1947 until his retirement in 1966.[16] He was an inaugural member of the UNH Wildcats Hall of Fame in 1982.[17]

Notes
  1. College Oval (also known as College Field) was New Hampshire's home field through the 1920 season;[2] Memorial Field, dedicated in 1921, was built in the same location.[3]
  2. The school did not adopt the Wildcats nickname until February 1926;[4] 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. This was Cowell's 6th year and 5th season as head coach, as the school did not field a varsity team in 1918 due to World War I.

References
  1. The Granite. Durham, New Hampshire: New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 1922. pp. 241–245. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  2. "New Hampshire State College vs. University of Vermont". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. October 15, 1920. p. 1. Retrieved February 20, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  3. "Alumni Plan Memorial Field to Honor Men Who Died in War". The New Hampshire. 9 (28). May 12, 1920. p. 3. Retrieved February 21, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  4. "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  5. "New Hampshire Conquers Bates in Opening Game". The New Hampshire. 10 (2). October 6, 1920. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved February 20, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  6. "Heavy N H State Defeats B. U., 7 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1920. p. 14. Retrieved February 17, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  7. "B. U. Eleven Beaten 7 to 0". The Boston Post. October 10, 1920. p. 38. Retrieved February 17, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  8. "Vermont Defeats N. H. State 7-0". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. October 18, 1920. p. 11. Retrieved February 17, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  9. "New Hampshire's Weight Too Great". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 24, 1920. p. 35. Retrieved February 17, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  10. "New Hampshire Defeats M. A. C., Connors Starring". The Boston Globe. October 31, 1920. p. 14. Retrieved February 17, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  11. "Colby Holds New Hampshire to 7-7 Tie in Final Home Game". The New Hampshire. 10 (7). November 10, 1920. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved February 20, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  12. "Eleven Wins State College Championship of New England; Defeats U. of M. by 47 to 7". The New Hampshire. 10 (8). November 17, 1920. p. 1. Retrieved February 20, 2020 – via library.unh.edu.
  13. "Holy Cross Riddles N H State, 32 to 0". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1920. p. 21. Retrieved February 17, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  14. "New Hampshire Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  15. "New Hampshire vs Boston (MA)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  16. "UNH Plans Program For Alumni". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. June 8, 1973. p. 2. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  17. "Hall of Fame". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
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