1953 Drexel Dragons football team

1953 Eastern college football independents records
	Rankings from AP Poll

1953 Drexel Dragons football
1953 Drexel Dragons football
Conference	Independent
1953 record	2–3–1
Head coach	Eddie Allen (4th season);
Assistant coach	Tom Miller
Captains	Ted Rubin (1st year); Tom Grebis (1st year);
Home stadium	Drexel Field
	Seasons ← 1952 1954 →

The 1953 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1953 college football season. Eddie Allen was the team's head coach.

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 2	Night	at West Chester	Wayne Field West Chester, PA	L 12–47	4,000
October 10		Ursinus	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 20–6
October 17		Franklin & Marshall	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 6–33
October 24		at Randolph–Macon	Ashland, VA	T 7–7
October 31		Dickinson	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 7–13
November 7		at Western Maryland	Hoffa Field Westminster, MD	Cancelled (Snow)
November 14		Swarthmore	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 20–7
Homecoming All times are in Eastern time

1953 Drexel Dragons football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
TE		Glazier
OT		Paul VonZech
OG		Jim Hart
C	`99`	Ted Rubin (C)
OG	`35`	Ted Peetros
OT	`48`	Nels Sugart
TE	`19`	Leo Hayes	Sr
HB		Tom Grebis (C)	Sr
HB		Auggie Campiglia
FB		George Piper
QB		George Meyers	Jr
TE	`23`	Leo O'Connor
TE		Cobano
OT		Joe Kwapinski
OG		Boyle
OG		Tom Wonderly
HB		Carl Fugmann
FB		Kenny Pastor

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

^ "Dragons Return after Trying Randolph-Macon" (PDF). The Triangle. 30 October 1953. p. 8. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
^ "1953 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

1953 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 14 Army		–		7	–	1	–	1
Harvard		–		6	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		5	–	2	–	0
Hofstra		–		6	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	3	–	0
Yale		–		5	–	2	–	2
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	3	–	0
Boston College		–		5	–	3	–	1
Boston University		–		5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	3	–	1
Princeton		–		5	–	4	–	0
Tufts		–		4	–	3	–	0
Cornell		–		4	–	3	–	2
Holy Cross		–		5	–	5	–	0
Temple		–		4	–	4	–	1
Colgate		–		3	–	4	–	2
Columbia		–		4	–	5	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	5	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	6	–	0
Drexel		–		2	–	3	–	1
Brown		–		3	–	5	–	1
Penn		–		3	–	5	–	1
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	5	–	1
Dartmouth		–		2	–	7	–	0
Buffalo		–		1	–	5	–	1
Bucknell		–		1	–	8	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll