1905 New Hampshire football team

1905 New Hampshire football
Team captain Hardy is in the middle row, second from right, holding football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–4–2
Head coach
  • unknown
CaptainEdwin D. Hardy[1]
Home stadiumCentral Park, Dover, NH
Seasons
← 1904
1906 →
1905 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     10 0 0
Penn     12 0 1
Temple     2 0 1
Dartmouth     7 1 2
Swarthmore     7 1 0
Western U. of Penn.     10 2 0
Princeton     8 2 0
Harvard     8 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 3 0
Lafayette     7 2 1
Wesleyan     7 2 1
Carlisle     10 4 0
Penn State     8 3 0
Syracuse     8 3 0
Fordham     5 2 0
Amherst     3 1 2
Holy Cross     6 3 0
Brown     7 4 0
Tufts     5 3 0
Vermont     6 4 1
Cornell     6 4 0
Colgate     5 4 0
Columbia     4 3 2
Army     4 4 1
Bucknell     5 5 0
NYU     3 3 1
Lehigh     6 7 0
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 0
Geneva     4 6 0
New Hampshire     2 4 2
Springfield Training School     3 5 0
Rutgers     3 6 0
Villanova     3 7 0
Drexel     1 7 0

The 1905 New Hampshire football team[a] was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts[b] during the 1905 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 2–4–2.

It is unclear if the team had a head coach. The New Hampshire College Monthly made several references to the team's captain and the team's student manager, but did not mention any coach. An article in The Burlington Free Press mentions "Coach Lord, who has charge of their team this year, was [the] star Yale end of 1902."[3] This looks to be an errant[c] and outdated reference to G. B. Ward, who coached New Hampshire's 1904 team and then began practicing law in Connecticut in 1905.[5] New Hampshire's media guide lists Edward Herr as coach of the 1905 through 1907 teams.[6] However, he was a student at Dartmouth College during the 1905–06 academic year,[7] and upon his hiring to coach Vermont football for the 1908 season, it was noted that he had been coach at New Hampshire for the prior two years (1906 and 1907).[8] Herr was first mentioned in the October 1906 edition of the College Monthly.[7]

  1. ^ "Edwin Davis Hardy". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 13, no. 8. June 15, 1906. p. 189. Retrieved May 9, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ "Wild E. and Gnarlz". unhwildcats.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "University Notes". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. October 23, 1905. Retrieved May 9, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Yale Football Letterwinners". yalebulldogs.com. 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  5. ^ "Attorney George Ward Succumbs in Hospital". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. January 23, 1942. p. 8. Retrieved April 28, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference MG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b "The Football Outlook". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 14, no. 1. October 15, 1906. p. 3. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via Wayback Machine. E. A. Herr, Dartmouth, '06, has been selected for coach.
  8. ^ "Football coach". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. May 6, 1908. p. 8. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.


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