1949 Drexel Dragons football team

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1949 Drexel Dragons football
ConferenceIndependent
1949 record3–3–1
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Bill Ferrell
  • Herman Epstein
CaptainCharlie Pascale (2nd year)
Seasons
← 1948
1950 →
1949 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Army   –   9 – 0 – 0
Brown   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 12 Cornell   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 13 Villanova   –   8 – 1 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 0
Buffalo   –   6 – 3 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 3 – 0
Princeton   –   6 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 3 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   5 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   4 – 4 – 0
Yale   –   4 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   4 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 5 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Duquesne   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   2 – 5 – 2
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 0
Hofstra   –   1 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   1 – 8 – 0
Harvard   –   1 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1949 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1949 college football season. Otis Douglas was the team's head coach.

Schedule[]

[1] [2] [3]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendance
October 1Ursinus
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–0 
October 8at Gettysburg
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Gettysburg, PA
L 0–21 
October 15Haverford
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 46–0 
October 222:00 pmPennsylvania Military Collegedagger
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 12–12 
October 29Washington (MD)
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 12–18 
November 5at DickinsonCarlisle, PAL 0–27 
November 12Swarthmore
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 24–21 

Roster[]

1949 Drexel Dragons football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos. # Name Class
TE 8 Augie Scalzo
OT 34 Charlie Pascale (C) Sr
OG 3 George Ream
C 25 Bob Stewart
OG 22 Tommy Price
OT Bill Huster
TE 27 Dick Spahr
QB 16 Bobby Brown
HB 1 Lew Gerlach
HB 6 Joe Bigatel
FB 7 Matt Pasztalaniec
TE 5 Zak Zakarian
TE Pop Quinlan
TE Fred Yahrling
TE Walt Scott
TE 37 Dick Henry
TE O.G. Jones
TE Fred Haid
OT Kim Billings
OT 40 Bob Kravitz
OG 15 Ernie Rodgers
C 13 Wolf Wolfinger
C 36 Dick Yasky
C Dick VanDoren
C 31 Carl Bauer
HB 9 Hank Vaders
HB 19 Dave Donovan
HB 18 Clem Clemens
HB 21 George Rusetski
HB Josh Stazak
HB 14 George Stozenski
HB Donald Young
HB 17 Art Fischer
HB 20 Joe Pietrocarlo
HB Andy Bredbenner
HB 11 Tom Kolongowski
HB 2 Howard Smith
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

Roster
Last update: February 16, 2018

References[]

  1. ^ "ONE STRAIGHT" (PDF). The Triangle. 7 October 1949. p. 6. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  2. ^ "1949 Football Schedule". Widener Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  3. ^ "1949 Football Schedule". Swarthmore Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
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