1947 Drexel Dragons football team

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1947 Drexel Dragons football
ConferenceIndependent
1947 record0–8
Head coach
Seasons
← 1946
1948 →
1947 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Penn State     9 0 1
No. 7 Penn     7 0 1
Muhlenberg     9 1 0
Buffalo     8 1 0
No. 20 Columbia     7 2 0
No. 11 Army     5 2 2
Yale     6 3 0
Villanova     6 3 1
Boston University     5 3 0
Hofstra     5 3 0
Princeton     5 3 0
Tufts     5 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     4 3 1
Boston College     5 4 0
Brown     4 4 1
Dartmouth     4 4 1
Holy Cross     4 4 2
Springfield     4 4 0
Harvard     4 5 0
Cornell     4 5 0
Syracuse     3 6 0
CCNY     2 5 1
NYU     2 5 1
Colgate     1 5 2
Temple     2 6 0
Bucknell     2 7 0
Duquesne     2 8 0
Fordham     1 6 1
Pittsburgh     1 8 0
Carnegie Tech     0 6 0
Drexel     0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1947 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1947 college football season. Ralph Chase was the team's head coach.

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendance
SeptemberWest ChesterL 13–33
October 4Ursinus
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–6
October 112:00 pmLehigh
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–75,000
October 182:15 pmat Haverford
  • Walton Field
  • Haverford, PA
L 6–334,500
October 25Pennsylvania Military
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–25 
November 1at Johns HopkinsL 0–396,000
November 8at DickinsonL 13–25 
November 15Swarthmoredagger
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 14–192,000

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Roster[]

1947 Drexel Dragons football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos. # Name Class
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. ^ "Dragons Drop 2 Openers" (PDF). The Triangle. 10 October 1947. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  2. ^ "1947 Football Schedule". Widener Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  3. ^ "1947 Football Schedule". Swarthmore Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
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