1948 Drexel Dragons football team

1948 Eastern college football independents records
	Rankings from AP Poll

1948 Drexel Dragons football
1948 Drexel Dragons football
Conference	Independent
1948 record	0–8
Head coach	Ralph Chase,; Maury McMains;
Assistant coaches	Herman Epstein; Bud Bossick; Otis Douglas (1st season);
Captain	Charlie Pascale (1st year)
	Seasons ← 1947 1949 →

The 1948 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1948 college football season. Ralph Chase was the team's head coach for the first five games of the season, when Maury McMains took over head coaching duties in order to allow Chase to focus on coaching the basketball team.^[1]

Schedule[]

^[2] ^[3] ^[4]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 25	Gettysburg	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–28
October 2	at Ursinus	Collegeville, PA	L 7–19
October 9	at Lehigh	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA	L 0–45
October 16	Haverford	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 6–7
October 23	at Pennsylvania Military College	Chester, PA	L 6–33
October 30	Johns Hopkins	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–22
November 6	Dickinson	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 12–14
November 13	at Swarthmore		L 13–33
Homecoming

Roster[]

1948 Drexel Dragons football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
OT		Charlie Pascale (C)	Jr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Head coach

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Herman Epstein (Maryland)
Bud Bossick
Otis Douglas (William & Mary)

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

References[]

^ "McMains Named Head Grid Coach" (PDF). The Triangle. 22 October 1948. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^ "19 STRAIGHT" (PDF). The Triangle. 19 November 1948. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^ "1948 Football Schedule". Widener Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
^ "1948 Football Schedule". Swarthmore Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

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[1] "McMains Named Head Grid Coach" (PDF). The Triangle. 22 October 1948. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2018.

[2] "19 STRAIGHT" (PDF). The Triangle. 19 November 1948. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2018.

[3] "1948 Football Schedule". Widener Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

[4] "1948 Football Schedule". Swarthmore Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

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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

1948 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 6 Army		–		8	–	0	–	1
No. 19 Cornell		–		8	–	1	–	0
Penn State		–		7	–	1	–	1
Buffalo		–		6	–	1	–	1
Villanova		–		8	–	2	–	1
Brown		–		7	–	2	–	0
Boston University		–		6	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth		–		6	–	2	–	0
Boston College		–		5	–	2	–	2
Pittsburgh		–		6	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		5	–	3	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		5	–	3	–	1
Harvard		–		4	–	4	–	0
Princeton		–		4	–	4	–	0
Columbia		–		4	–	5	–	0
Yale		–		4	–	5	–	0
CCNY		–		3	–	4	–	1
Tufts		–		3	–	4	–	1
Colgate		–		3	–	6	–	0
Fordham		–		3	–	6	–	0
NYU		–		3	–	6	–	0
Temple		–		2	–	6	–	1
Duquesne		–		2	–	7	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		1	–	7	–	0
Hofstra		–		0	–	6	–	2
Bucknell		–		1	–	8	–	0
Syracuse		–		1	–	8	–	0
Drexel		–		0	–	8	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll