In its 16th season under head coach William "Butch" Cowell,[a] the team compiled a 7–2 record,[b] and outscored their opponents, 171–84.

The team played its home games in Durham, New Hampshire, at Memorial Field.

[c] The 1931 game remains the last time that the Brown and New Hampshire football programs have met.

[19] New Hampshire captain Richard Eustis was inducted to the university's athletic hall of fame in 1983.

[20] Eustis, who died in 1969 at the age of 62, served as athletic director at nearby Exeter High School,[21] where the school named its football field after him in 1970.