1896 New Hampshire football team

1896 New Hampshire football
Team captain Hayes at bottom right, holding football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–4
Head coach
  • None
CaptainFred F. Hayes
Home stadiumBurgett Park, Dover, NH
College grounds, Durham, NH
1896 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Fordham    1 0 0
Lafayette    11 0 1
Princeton    10 0 1
Washington & Jefferson    8 0 1
Penn    14 1 0
Yale    13 1 0
Pittsburgh College    11 2 0
Buffalo    9 1 2
Villanova    10 4 0
Bucknell    5 2 1
Harvard    7 4 0
Boston College    5 3 0
Storrs    5 3 0
Cornell    5 3 1
Syracuse    5 3 2
Temple    3 2 0
Army    3 2 1
Rutgers    6 6 0
Carlisle    5 5 0
Holy Cross    2 2 2
Brown    4 5 1
Wesleyan    4 5 1
Dickinson    4 5 0
Frankin & Marshall    3 4 2
Geneva    3 4 0
Penn State    3 4 0
Colgate    3 4 1
Amherst    3 6 1
Western Univ. Penn.    3 6 0
Lehigh    2 5 0
Tufts    2 6 1
Swarthmore    2 6 0
New Hampshire    1 4 0
Drexel    1 5 0
Massachusetts    0 4 0
Rhode Island    0 4 0

The 1896 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1896 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team played a five-game schedule and finished with a record of 2–3 or 1–4, per 1896 sources or modern sources, respectively.