Under first-year head coach Edward Herr,[d] the team finished with a record of 2–5–1.

The Vermont game in Manchester was attended by Governor of New Hampshire John McLane.

[20] In December 1908, center Carl Chase and another student drowned while canoeing in the nearby Great Bay.

[24] Right end Edson D. Sanborn later coached the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) personnel of the 1918 New Hampshire football team that competed in place of the varsity.

[25] Team manager Leon Dexter Batchelor later became a horticulture professor and served as director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station.