1897 Drexel Dragons football team

The 1897 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 21^[1]	at Wilmington High School (DE)	Warner Athletic Park Wilmington, DE	L 4–16
October 27^[2]	at Mainheim		L 0–46
November 2	Northeast Manual Training School		W Forfeit
November 5	at Chester High School	Chester Park Chester, PA	T 0–0	300
November 10	at Haddonfield High School	Haddonfield, NJ	W 4–0	200
November 12	at Griffith Athletic Club		W 10–0
November 17	Eastburn Academy		W Forfeit
November 19	Friends' Central School		W Forfeit
November 25	Wilmington High School (DE)		W Forfeit

1897 Drexel Dragons football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	Name	Class
TE, DE	John Schofield	Fr
OT	Edwin Potts	Fr
OG	John Kaighn	Fr
C	George Moses	Fr
OG	A. Carl Reeves	Fr
OT	Robert Grover	Fr
TE	C. Thompson	Fr
HB	S. Walter Bishop (C)	Sr
HB	Randolph M.	Fr
QB	Charles Carson	Fr
	John Griffith	Fr
	Arthur V. Dee	Jr
	Harold Perkins	Sr
	Davys Gilpin	So
	John Hedges	Jr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
LB, P		Otto Fischer	Fr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Roster
Last update: 21 September 2018

^ "Drexel Institute Defeated". newspapers.com. Wilmington, DE: The Times. 22 October 1897. p. 8. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
^ "Manheim 46, Drexel 0". newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 28 October 1897. p. 4. Retrieved 17 October 2018.

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v t Drexel Dragons football
Venues	West Philadelphia YMCA (1896–?) Drexel Field (46th and Haverford Ave) (?–1962) Vidas Field (1963–1973)
Culture & lore	City 6 Mario the Magnificent "Drexel Fight Song"
People	Head coaches
Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910–1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973

1897 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Penn		–		15	–	0	–	0
Buffalo		–		7	–	0	–	0
Princeton		–		10	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		10	–	1	–	0
Yale		–		9	–	0	–	2
Harvard		–		10	–	1	–	1
Army		–		6	–	1	–	1
Vermont		–		3	–	0	–	2
Lafayette		–		9	–	2	–	1
Drexel		–		6	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		5	–	2	–	1
Dickinson		–		7	–	3	–	2
Swarthmore		–		7	–	3	–	2
Fordham		–		2	–	1	–	1
Cornell		–		5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	3	–	1
Brown		–		7	–	4	–	0
Carlisle		–		6	–	4	–	0
Boston College		–		4	–	3	–	0
Holy Cross		–		4	–	3	–	1
Bucknell		–		3	–	3	–	1
NYU		–		3	–	3	–	0
Temple		–		3	–	3	��	0
Trinity (CT)		–		4	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan		–		6	–	6	–	0
Tufts		–		6	–	7	–	0
Geneva		–		3	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College		–		2	–	3	–	1
Villanova		–		3	–	5	–	1
Penn State		–		3	–	6	–	0
Amherst		–		2	–	6	–	2
Frankin & Marshall		–		2	–	6	–	2
Lehigh		–		3	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire		–		2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers		–		2	–	6	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.		–		1	–	3	–	0