1894 Drexel Dragons football team

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1894 Drexel Dragons football
ConferenceIndependent
1894 record1–3
Head coach
  • None
CaptainN. D. Holbrook (1st year)
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   16 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   11 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   7 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   10 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   2 – 1 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 5 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   3 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn   –   1 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 9 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 3 – 0
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   1 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1894 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team did not have a head coach.

In either the team's first exhibition game against Penn freshman, or the regular season game against Hamilton School (there are conflicting reports), Knight, playing at fullback, suffered a fractured skull which killed him.[1] This is one of the earliest recorded deaths of an American football player due to injuries sustained during a game.

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResult
October 19at Penn Freshman (Exhibition)
October 20[2]at Hamilton School
W 4–0
October 27[3]at Linden (Merchantville, NJ)L 0–5
November 3[4]at Media Shortlidge AcademyMedia, PAL 0–6
November 13Northeast Manual Training School
November 24[5]4:00 pmBank Clerks' Association
  • A.C. of the Schuylkill Navy Grounds
  • Wayne Junction, PA
L 0–6

Roster[]

1894 Drexel Dragons football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos. # Name Class
TE Merrick
OT Wetherill
OG McQueen
C Kempton
OG, FB Stuart Heist
OT Newberry
TE N.D. Holbrook (C)
QB Storm
HB Shinn
HB Glover
FB Harry Knight Injured
TE Kerner
TE Neats
OT Bruner
OG, OT Waring
HB Reeves
FB Chapin
Defense
Pos. # Name Class
Special teams
Pos. # Name Class
Head coach
  • No coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured Injured
  • Redshirt Redshirt

Roster
Last update: 17 October 2018

References[]

  1. ^ "Probably Fatal Football Game". newspapers.com. Carlisle Evening Herald. 22 October 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Drexel Institute and Hamilton". newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 21 October 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Drexel Institute Played Well". newspapers.com. The Times. 28 October 1894. p. 8. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Media and Drexel". newspapers.com. Media, PA: The Philadelphia Inquirer. 4 November 1894. p. 4. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Bank Clerks 6; Drexel 0". newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 25 November 1894. p. 4. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
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