1946 Drexel Dragons football team

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1946 Drexel Dragons football
ConferenceIndependent
1946 record3–4
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Edward Bossick (1st season)
  • Marshall Austin (1st season)
Seasons
← 1945
1947 →
1946 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Army     9 0 1
Muhlenberg     9 1 0
Yale     7 1 1
Buffalo     7 2 0
Harvard     7 2 0
Massachusetts State     6 2 0
No. 13 Penn     6 2 0
Penn State     6 2 0
Boston University     5 2 1
Boston College     6 3 0
Columbia     6 3 0
NYU     5 3 0
Cornell     5 3 1
Villanova     6 4 0
Boston College     7 3 0
Hofstra     4 3 0
Colgate     4 4 0
Syracuse     4 5 0
Drexel     3 4 0
Franklin & Marshall     3 4 0
Brown     3 5 1
Pittsburgh     3 5 1
Princeton     3 5 0
Vermont     2 3 2
Temple     2 4 2
Bucknell     3 6 0
Dartmouth     3 6 0
Tufts     1 6 0
CCNY     1 7 0
Carnegie Tech     0 6 0
Fordham     0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1946 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1946 college football season. Ralph Chase was the team's head coach.

On October 26, Drexel played at Delaware in the last game to be played at Frazer Field.[1]

On November 9, Drexel was scheduled to play against Dickinson, however Dickinson was unable to play because a bus which had all of the team's equipment was erroneously sent to Pittsburgh.[2] The error was discovered by the Dickinson football manager after the bus had left, and the bus was not flagged down until it had already reached Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. By that time, the bus would be unable to reach Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the game was to be played, in time. As a crowd of 2,000 fans awaited the game, Drexel attempted to outfit the Dickinson team with their spare equipment, however was unable to do so due to a lack of pads. The game was canceled by mutual agreement.[3]

Schedule[]

[4]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Nightat West Chester
  • Wayne Field
  • West Chester, PA
L 0–12 
October 52:00 pmUrsinus
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 18–64,000
October 122:00 pmat CCNY
W 19–01,000[5]
October 192:00 pmHaverford
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 33–20 
October 26at Delaware
L 0–52 
November 22:00 pmJohns Hopkins
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–72,000
November 92:00 pmDickinsondagger
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
Canceled2,000
November 16at SwarthmoreL 6–122,000[6]

Roster[]

1946 Drexel Dragons football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos. # Name Class
QB 45 Joe Michaels
HB 36 Al Bednerik
HB 16 Jim Ostendarp Fr
FB 38 Arnie Pearson
TE 53 Jim Faut
OT Phil Schneider
OG Joe Kuder
C 69 Hugh Geiger
OG 70 Fred Jordan
OT 55 George Hill
TE 35 George Horrocks
[[American football positions|]] Hal Morehead
[[American football positions|]] Jack Smith
[[American football positions|]] Craig Smith
[[American football positions|]] Dick Coffee
HB George Durgin
HB Eugene Saylor
HB Grisson
HB Cragg
OT Bob Brocksbank
OT Tom Young
OG Jake Michaels
OG Bill Barnes
TE Bill Mickle
Defense
Pos. # Name Class
Special teams
Pos. # Name Class
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches

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

References[]

  1. ^ "Football - 1946 Schedule". Delaware Blue Hens. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Dickinson Fails to Show: No Pants" (PDF). The Triangle. 15 November 1946. p. 6. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Dickinson's Suits "Go West" As Team Goes East. Game Cancelled". Newspapers.com. Philadelphia: The Gazette and Daily. 11 November 1946. p. 14. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Techmen Meet Rams Tonight" (PDF). The Triangle. 27 September 1946. p. 6. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Drexel jolts C.C.N.Y. by 19–0 score". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1946. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "1946 Football Schedule". Swarthmore Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
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