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1933 Drexel Dragons football team

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1933 Drexel Dragons football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
CaptainTed Markle
Home stadiumDrexel Field
Seasons
← 1932
1934 →
1933 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 7 Princeton     9 0 0
Duquesne     10 1 0
No. 9 Army     9 1 0
Boston College     8 1 0
Columbia     8 1 0
Pittsburgh     8 1 0
Colgate     6 1 1
Bucknell     7 2 0
Fordham     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
Villanova     7 2 1
Harvard     5 2 1
Drexel     5 3 0
Massachusetts State     5 3 0
Temple     5 3 0
Manhattan     5 3 1
Cornell     4 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 2
La Salle     3 3 2
Syracuse     4 4 0
Yale     4 4 0
Penn State     3 3 1
Brown     3 5 0
Vermont     3 5 0
Franklin & Marshall     4 5 0
NYU     2 4 1
Penn     2 4 1
Northeastern     1 3 1
Boston University     2 5 0
Washington & Jefferson     2 7 1
CCNY     1 5 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

1933 Drexel Dragons football team represented Drexel Institute—now known as Drexel University—in the 1933 college football season. Led by Walter Halas in his seventh season as head coach, the team compiled a record of 5–3.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30at LehighL 0–19
October 7West Chester
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–7
October 14at JuniataHuntingdon, PAW 12–7
October 21CCNY
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 32–01,500[1]
October 28Ursinus
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–7
November 4Delaware
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–03,500[2]
November 11Susquehanna
  • Drexel Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 7–6
November 182:00 pmat Lebanon Valley
L 6–161,200

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Roster

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1933 Drexel Dragons football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos. # Name Class
TE 59 Harry Brevda
OT 5 John Bear
G 18 Henry Kelly
C 21 Joseph Guggenheim
G 1 Ted Markle (C)
OT 44 Harry Martin
TE 11 Arthur Mered Hoff So
HB 85 Charlie Knapp So
HB 9 George Stevens Fr
FB 31 Ralph Petchik
QB 24 Myron Fleming
QB 86 Frank Burns
HB 12 Robert Callahan
FB 22 Edward Doolittle
C 34 Daniel Dugan
OT 10 Joseph Finnerty
OT 28 Albert Fitzgerald Fr
G 39 Charles Foltz So
HB 70 Harry Fox Fr
G 17 Edward Gegenheimer
G 15 Williams Gittler
OT 7 John Goheen
C 30 Charles Holland
FB 38 Frank Jankuskas
HB 16 Robert Kennedy
HB 84 Robert Link
G 4 Thomas Lukens
C 29 Fred Martin
FB 23 Theodore Pohlig
HB 65 Samuel Potter So
TE 14 James Reynolds
TE 19 Joseph Rhile Fr
G 46 George Smullen
QB 66 Ross Tippin Fr
TE 40 Henry Wallace
HB 42 Raymond Wirth
TE 45 William Wright
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

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  1. ^ "Drexel tramples C.C.N.Y. eleven in battle of passes". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 22, 1933. Retrieved September 17, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Potter stars as Drexel beats Delaware gridmen with final period pass". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 5, 1933. Retrieved December 1, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Coming Events" (PDF). The Triangle. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 13, 1933. p. 5. Retrieved January 16, 2018.