1908 University of New Mexico football team

The team compiled a 5–1 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 111 to 34.

Conwell was a graduate of Kansas Agricultural College who was hired in 1908 and placed in charge of the mathematics department.

It is the start of college athletics, and the lovers of this sort of sport are hoping that the spirit will grow.

The Albuquerque Morning Journal called it "very decidedly the best football game ever seen in New Mexico or Arizona".

[5] The game was also the first meeting between the two universities, marking the start of the Arizona–New Mexico football rivalry.