New Hampshire Football Report

Colcord done at Memorial

When Manchester Memorial opens the 2018 football season Peter Colcord will not be on the Crusaders’ sideline.

Colcord, a physical education teacher at Memorial, said he submitted his letter of resignation earlier this month. Memorial has finished 0-9 in each of the last three seasons.

“I think there needs to be a change there and I have a lot of personal things going on,” Colcord said. “It was the chance of a lifetime for me to be a head coach and I thoroughly enjoyed working with the kids for the last 10 years.”

Memorial, which hasn’t qualified for the playoffs since the 2003 season, had a 26-73 record during Colcord’s tenure. The 2014 season was Colcord’s best. A loss to Goffstown on the regular season’s final weekend prevented Memorial from qualifying for the playoffs that year. The Crusaders finished 6-4 following a 41-14 victory over Central on Thanksgiving.

Colcord, 64, spent one season as an assistant coach at Memorial before he was elevated to head coach. He has also worked as an assistant coach at Winnacunnet, Trinity and Londonderry. He’s the third Division I coach who has resigned since the end of the 2017 regular season, joining Bishop Guertin’s Jeff Moore and Spaulding’s Jeff Hunt.

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