Colonial Clash
History
First meeting	Massachusetts 10, New Hampshire 4 (1897)
Last meeting	New Hampshire 39, Massachusetts 13 (2010)
Next meeting	October 22, 2011
Number of meetings	73
All-time series	UMass leads, 43-27-3
Largest victory	New Hampshire, 56-7 (1921)
Current streak	New Hampshire, 1
Longest UMass win streak	6 (1969-74, 1977-82)
Longest UNH win streak	4 (1953-56, 1994-97)
MVP Trophy:	Bill Knight Trophy Bill Knight Trophy The Bill Knight Trophy is an annual trophy given to the Most Outstanding Player of the Colonial Clash, a college football rivalry game played between the University of Massachusetts and the University of New Hampshire...

The Colonial Clash is an annual college football

College football

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 rivalry game played between UMass

University of Massachusetts

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 and New Hampshire

University of New Hampshire

The University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is...

. The MVP of the game is awarded the Bill Knight Trophy

Bill Knight Trophy

The Bill Knight Trophy is an annual trophy given to the Most Outstanding Player of the Colonial Clash, a college football rivalry game played between the University of Massachusetts and the University of New Hampshire...

.

History

The first game played between the two schools took place on October 2, 1897, in Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the largest community in Hampshire County . The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts...

. Massachusetts

UMass Minutemen football

The UMass Minutemen football team is a collegiate football team that has finished its last season in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision and the Colonial Athletic Association in 2011. UMass began play in 1879 and have since appeared in three National Championship games, winning the title in...

 won the game by a score of 10-4. At the time, UMass was known as Massachusetts Agricultural College and New Hampshire was officially New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. They had formed a loose association with other public colleges in New England

New England

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 such as present day UConn

University of Connecticut

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 and Rhode Island

University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...

 for the purpose of scheduling football matchups between the schools.

The colleges continued to schedule matches intermittently through 1922. Massachusetts affiliated with the New England Conference

New England Conference

The New England Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States, more specifically in New England, that operated from 1938 to 1947...

 in 1923, and the schools would not meet again on the gridiron until New Hampshire

New Hampshire Wildcats

The New Hampshire Wildcats, or Cats, are the athletic teams of the University of New Hampshire. The wildcat is the school's official mascot, the colors are UNH Blue and white...

 joined Massachusetts in the Yankee Conference

Yankee Conference

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 in 1952. UMass and New Hampshire have met at least once a year every season since.

UMass leads the all-time series 43-27-3, though it has been decidedly more even within the past 30 years. From 1958 through 1989, UMass won 26 of the meetings, losing only six times, including only one instance of back-to-back losses to their rival (1975-76). The most successful run for New Hampshire occurred from 1990 to 2002, when the Wildcats won 10 matchups and lost only 3.

In April 2011, UMass announced plans to join the Mid-American Conference

Mid-American Conference

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 and move up to the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of college football in the country. UNH plans to remain in the Colonial Athletic Association

Colonial Athletic Association

The Colonial Athletic Association is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose full-time members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. Most of its members are public universities, with five in Virginia alone, and the conference is headquartered in Richmond,...

 of the Football Championship Subdivision. While the two universities still have one more scheduled game on October 22, 2011, the future of the rivalry is in question.

Year-by-year game results

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*NCAA Playoff Quarterfinals