1950 Drexel Dragons football team

1950 Eastern college football independents records
	Rankings from AP Poll

1950 Drexel Dragons football
1950 Drexel Dragons football
Conference	Independent
1950 record	6–1
Head coach	Eddie Allen (1st season);
Captains	Tommy Price (1st year); Lew Gerlach (1st year);
Home stadium	Drexel Field
	Seasons ← 1949 1951 →

The 1950 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1950 college football season. Eddie Allen was the team's head coach.

Tackle Tom Staszak was awarded second team on the 1950 Little All-America college football team.

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 30		at Ursinus	Collegeville, PA	W 26–0	5,000
October 7	2:00 pm	Gettysburg	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 13–7	8,000
October 14		Pennsylvania Military College	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 19–7
October 28		at Washington (MD)	Chestertown, MD	W 21–0
November 4		Western Maryland	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 25–26
November 11		at Swarthmore	Swarthmore, PA	W 28–7
November 18		West Chester	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 7–6	8,000
Homecoming All times are in Eastern time

1950 Drexel Dragons football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
TE		Fred Haid
OT	`31`	Adams
OG	`22`	Tommy Price (C)
C	`21`	George Rusetski
OG		Kim Billings
OT		Silverman
TE		Colson
HB	`13`	Joe Pietrocarlo
HB	`19`	Hank Vaders
FB	`39`	Tom Stazak
QB		Smith
TE	`20`	Zak Zakarian
TE	`28`	Fred Yahrling
TE		Dick Spahr
TE	`40`	Dick Henry
OT		Joe Hefferman
OT		Bill Huster
OG		George Ream
OG		John Racine
OG	`35`	Ernie Rodgers
C		Carl Bauer
C		Bob Stewart
HB	`15`	Joe Bigatel
HB	`11`	Lew Gerlach (C)
HB	`42`	Tom Kolongowski
HB	`12`	Archie Gross	So
HB	`29`	Art Fischer
HB	`14`	Harry Connor	So
QB	`16`	Bobby Brown

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class
K	`18`	Frank Fogarty

^ "Drexel Downs Ursinus, 26-0" (PDF). The Triangle. 6 October 1950. p. 6. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
^ "1950 Football Schedule". Widener Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
^ "1950 Football Schedule". Swarthmore Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

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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

1950 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Franklin & Marshall		–		9	–	0	–	0
No. 6 Princeton		–		9	–	0	–	0
No. 2 Army		–		8	–	1	–	0
Fordham		–		8	–	1	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		7	–	1	–	0
Drexel		–		6	–	1	–	0
No. 20 Cornell		–		7	–	2	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		6	–	3	–	0
Yale		–		6	–	3	–	0
Buffalo		–		5	–	3	–	0
Colgate		–		5	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	5	–	0
Temple		–		4	–	4	–	1
Tufts		–		4	–	4	–	1
Columbia		–		4	–	5	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross		–		4	–	5	–	1
Dartmouth		–		3	–	5	–	1
Boston University		–		3	–	5	–	0
Duquesne		–		2	–	6	–	1
Hofstra		–		2	–	6	–	0
NYU		–		1	–	5	–	1
CCNY		–		1	–	7	–	0
Harvard		–		1	–	7	–	0
Brown		–		1	–	8	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		1	–	8	–	0
Boston College		–		0	–	9	–	1

Rankings from AP Poll