1955 Drexel Dragons football team

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1955 Drexel Dragons football
ConferenceIndependent
1955 record8–0
Head coach
Captains
  • Ev Gest (1st year)
  • Art Del Campo (1st year)
Home stadiumDrexel Field
Seasons
← 1954
1956 →
1955 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Drexel     8 0 0
Carnegie Tech     5 1 1
Princeton     7 2 0
Yale     7 2 0
Tufts     5 2 0
Boston College     5 2 1
No. 20 Army     6 3 0
Colgate     6 3 0
No. 11 Pittsburgh     7 4 0
Holy Cross     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 0
Cornell     5 �� 4 0
Penn State     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 1
Harvard     3 4 1
Dartmouth     3 6 0
Hofstra     3 6 0
Bucknell     2 6 1
Boston University     2 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 6 0
Brown     2 7 0
Columbia     1 8 0
Villanova     1 9 0
Temple     0 8 0
Penn     0 9 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1955 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1955 college football season. Eddie Allen was the team's head coach. The team became the first undefeated football team at the school that had a full schedule of collegiate opponents.[1][2] Left guard Vince Vidas was awarded first string on the 1955 Little All-America college football team.

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 30Nightat West Chester
W 7–0
October 8AfternoonUrsinus
W 20–13
October 15Franklin & Marshall
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–6
October 22Afternoonat LycomingWilliamsport, PAW 33–14
October 292:00 pmJohns Hopkinsdagger
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–136,500
November 5Afternoonat Western Maryland
W 34–13
November 12Coast Guard
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–7
November 19at Pennsylvania MilitaryChester, PAW 20–65,000

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Roster[]

1955 Drexel Dragons football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos. # Name Class
TE, K 24 Ron Kleppinger Jr
OT Vince Vidas Jr
OG Bob Miller Sr
C, LB 22 Ev Gest (C) Sr
OG 33 Jack Eidenberg
OT Ed Pietrzak Sr
TE 28 Will Malone Sr
HB 11 Art Del Campo (C) Sr
HB, P Frank Russo
FB 36 George Piper Sr
QB, K 19 Bill Zador Jr
RB 14 Tony Spadaccini Jr
TE Lou Cobano
TE 21 Iles Wauhop Jr
TE Dave Smith So
OG Gordon MacShane Sr
FB 18 Kenny Pastor Sr
HB John Maloney So
[[American football positions|]] Art Barnes
QB Ed Kolongowski
HB/FB Herman Ringler Sr
[[American football positions|]] Frank Rapprich Sr
[[American football positions|]] D. Hughes
[[American football positions|]] K. Lysle
[[American football positions|]] S. Goldberg
[[American football positions|]] H. Tempest
[[American football positions|]] R. Paranich
[[American football positions|]] W. Winterbottom
[[American football positions|]] F. Costantini
[[American football positions|]] D. Medoff
[[American football positions|]] H. Schmidt
[[American football positions|]] R. Carson
[[American football positions|]] D. Wagoner
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. ^ "Victory Celebration Blasts Roof Off In Climax of Perfect Grid Season" (PDF). The Triangle. 2 December 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  2. ^ "VICTORY IS OUR CRY!" (PDF). The Triangle. 2 December 1955. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Dragons Set for Good Year; Meet W. Chester in Opener" (PDF). The Triangle. September 29, 1955. p. 4. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  4. ^ "1955 Football Schedule". Widener Athletics. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
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