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The 1922 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
1922 college football season The 1922 college football season had a number of unbeaten and untied teams, and no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing California, Cornell, Iowa, Princeton, and Vanderbilt as national champions ...
—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. In its seventh season under head coach William "Butch" Cowell, the team compiled a 3–5–1 record, and were outscored by their opponents by a total of 180 to 105. After opening the season with three wins, the team had a five-game losing streak before ending the season with a tie. The team played its home games in
Durham, New Hampshire Durham is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 15,490 at the 2020 census, up from 14,638 at the 2010 census.United States Census BureauU.S. Census website 2010 Census figures. Retrieved March 23, 2011. D ...
, at Memorial Field.


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The USMC Portsmouth team was composed of Marine Corps personnel working at the
Portsmouth Naval Prison Portsmouth Naval Prison is a former U.S. Navy and Marine Corps prison on the grounds of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS) in Kittery, Maine. The building has the appearance of a castle. The reinforced concrete naval prison was occupied from 190 ...
in nearby Kittery, Maine. While contemporary news reports and ''The Granite'' yearbook described it as a "practice game", the result is listed by College Football Data Warehouse and the Wildcats' media guide. The 1922 game remains the only time that the New Hampshire and Cornell football programs have met. New Hampshire and Massachusetts (commonly known as UMass since the late 1940s) next met in 1952. New Hampshire and Army next met in 2008.


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