1950 Drake Bulldogs football team
The 1950 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1950 college football season. In its second season under head coach Warren Gaer, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record (1–2–1 against MVC opponents), tied for fourth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 247 to 117.[1] The team played its home games at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.
| 1950 Drake Bulldogs football | |
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| Conference | Missouri Valley Conference |
| 1950 record | 6–2–1 (1–2–1 MVC) |
| Head coach | Warren Gaer (2nd season) |
| Home stadium | Drake Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 19 Tulsa $ | 3 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Detroit | 2 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wichita | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drake | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oklahoma A&M | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bradley | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Drake halfback Johnny Bright led the nation in total offense in both 1949 and 1950. See List of NCAA major college football yearly total offense leaders. He was the second Africa-American athlete to lead the country in this category after Kenny Washington did so in 1939. Bright later played 11 seasons in the Canadian Football League and was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 16 | Denver* | W 7–0 | |||||
| September 23 | at Kansas State Teachers* | W 47–6 | |||||
| September 30 | at South Dakota* |
| W 41–13 | ||||
| October 7 | Oklahoma A&M |
| T 14–14 | ||||
| October 14 | at Iowa State Teachers* | W 34–18 | |||||
| October 21 | Wichita |
| L 14–17 | ||||
| October 27 | at Detroit | L 13–14 | 6,255 | [2] | |||
| November 4 | Bradley |
| W 42–14 | ||||
| November 11 | at Iowa State* | W 35–21 | |||||
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References
- "1950 Drake Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- Dick Peters (October 28, 1950). "10 Seconds to Go, U-D Wins, 14–13". Detroit Free Press. pp. 16–17 – via Newspapers.com.