1948 Drexel Dragons football team

The 1948 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1948 college football season. Ralph Chase was the team's head coach for the first five games of the season, when Maury McMains took over head coaching duties in order to allow Chase to focus on coaching the basketball team.[1]

1948 Drexel Dragons football
ConferenceIndependent
1948 record0–8
Head coachRalph Chase,
Maury McMains
Assistant coaches
CaptainCharlie Pascale (1st year)
1948 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 6 Army      8 0 1
No. 19 Cornell      8 1 0
Penn State      7 1 1
Villanova      8 2 1
Brown      7 2 0
Boston College      5 2 2
Pittsburgh      6 3 0
Penn      5 3 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 3 1
Harvard      4 4 0
Princeton      4 4 0
Columbia      4 5 0
Yale      4 5 0
Tufts      3 4 1
Colgate      3 6 0
Fordham      3 6 0
NYU      3 6 0
Temple      2 6 1
Duquesne      2 7 0
Carnegie Tech      1 7 0
Hofstra      0 6 2
Syracuse      1 8 0
Drexel      0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

[2]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 25Gettysburg
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–28 
October 2at UrsinusCollegeville, PAL 7–19 
October 9at LehighL 0–45 
October 16Haverford
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–7 
October 23at Pennsylvania Military CollegeL 6–33 
October 30Johns Hopkins
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–22 
November 6Dickinson
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 12–14 
November 13at SwarthmoreL 13–33 
  • Homecoming

Roster

1948 Drexel Dragons football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
OT Charlie Pascale (C) Jr
Defense
Pos.#NameClass
Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured
  • Redshirt

References

  1. "McMains Named Head Grid Coach" (PDF). The Triangle. 22 October 1948. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  2. "19 STRAIGHT" (PDF). The Triangle. 19 November 1948. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
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