Roger Brown
nhfootballreport.com

Craig Kozens, New Hampshire's coach for this year's Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl, said his team's playbook will contain 18 base plays for this year's game, and he wants all 18 plays installed during the first three days of workouts.

Practice for this year's game will begin Wednesday, when the players on the New Hampshire and Vermont rosters report to Kimball Union Academy in Meriden. "We're going to have two practices the first day, three (on Thursday) and three (Friday), so we want to have everything in by then so we'll have a good idea where we are by our scrimmage on Saturday," Kozens said. "That will allow us to head into the second week in good shape. Any gadgets we might have would probably go in after that."

This year's game will be played Aug. 2 at Dartmouth's Memorial Field. The opening kickoff is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. New Hampshire won last year's game, 23-20, and leads the series 39-13-2.

Mike Law of U-32 High School is Vermont's head coach.

Kozens said Vermont will run a spread offense, and he plans to rotate defensive tackles to keep his defensive line fresh.

Each team will hold an intra-squad scrimmage on Saturday. Both scrimmages are open to the public.

Kozens said he'll have a better idea of which players will play what positions by the second week of practice.

"We'll see what fits best," he said. "After the scrimmage they'll be on one side of the ball, with a couple of exceptions.

"We still have our orginal 36-player roster. We're happy about that."

New Hampshire Football Report will have updates on the New Hampshire team following the final practice each day.