The 1920 New Hampshire football team was an
American football team that represented
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (NHC) was founded and incorporated in 1866, as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College. In 1893, NHC moved to Durham, where it became the University of New Ha ...
during the
1920 college football season
The 1920 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing California, Georgia, Harvard, Notre Dame, and Princeton as national champions. Only California and Princeton claim na ...
—the school became the
University of New Hampshire in 1923. In its fifth season under head coach
William "Butch" Cowell, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record, while outscoring their opponents by a total of 124 to 53.
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The 1920 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Boston University football programs.
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. He was an inaugural member of the UNH Wildcats Hall of Fame in 1982.
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