1894 Drexel Dragons football team

1894 Drexel Dragons football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–3
Head coach	None
Captain	N. D. Holbrook
Seasons ← 1893 1895 →

1894 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		16	–	0	–	0
Penn		–		12	–	0	–	0
Villanova		–		1	–	0	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	0	–	1
Harvard		–		11	–	2	–	0
Geneva		–		5	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		8	–	2	–	0
Temple		–		4	–	1	–	0
Holy Ghost College		–		7	–	2	–	1
Washington & Jefferson		–		5	–	2	–	1
Brown		–		10	–	5	–	0
Bucknell		–		5	–	3	–	0
Colgate		–		2	–	1	–	1
Army		–		3	–	2	–	0
Frankin & Marshall		–		6	–	4	–	0
Cornell		–		6	–	4	–	1
Amherst		–		7	–	5	–	0
Trinity (CT)		–		4	–	3	–	0
Syracuse		–		6	–	5	–	0
Tufts		–		6	–	5	–	0
Massachusetts		–		3	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore		–		5	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn		–		1	–	1	–	0
Lafayette		–		5	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire		–		2	–	3	–	0
Rutgers		–		4	–	6	–	0
Lehigh		–		5	–	9	–	0
Williams		–		1	–	3	–	0
Drexel		–		1	–	3	–	0
MIT		–		1	–	4	–	0
Boston College		–		1	–	6	–	0
Carlisle		–		1	–	8	–	0
Buffalo		–		0	–	2	–	0
NYU		–		0	–	3	–	0
Wesleyan		–		0	–	5	–	0

The 1894 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team did not have a head coach.

In either the team's first exhibition game against Penn freshman, or the regular season game against Hamilton School (there are conflicting reports), Knight, playing at fullback, suffered a fractured skull which killed him.^[1] This is one of the earliest recorded deaths of an American football player due to injuries sustained during a game.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result
October 19		at Penn Freshman	(Exhibition)
October 20^[2]		at Hamilton School	49th and Baltimore Philadelphia, PA	W 4–0
October 27^[3]		at Linden (Merchantville, NJ)		L 0–5
November 3^[4]		at Media Shortlidge Academy	Media, PA	L 0–6
November 13		Northeast Manual Training School
November 24^[5]	4:00 pm	Bank Clerks' Association	A.C. of the Schuylkill Navy Grounds Wayne Junction, PA	L 0–6

Roster

1894 Drexel Dragons football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
TE		Merrick
OT		Wetherill
G		McQueen
C		Kempton
G, FB		Stuart Heist
OT		Newberry
TE		N.D. Holbrook (C)
QB		Storm
HB		Shinn
HB		Glover
FB		Harry Knight
TE		Kerner
TE		Neats
OT		Bruner
G, OT		Waring
HB		Reeves
FB		Chapin

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Head coach

No coach

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Roster
Last update: 17 October 2018

References

^ "Probably Fatal Football Game". newspapers.com. Carlisle Evening Herald. October 22, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
^ "Drexel Institute and Hamilton". newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 21, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
^ "Drexel Institute Played Well". newspapers.com. The Times. October 28, 1894. p. 8. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
^ "Media and Drexel". newspapers.com. Media, PA: The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 4, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
^ "Bank Clerks 6; Drexel 0". newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 25, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved October 17, 2018.

v t e Drexel Dragons football
Venues	West Philadelphia YMCA (1896–?) Drexel Field (?–1962) Vidas Field (1963–1973)
Culture & lore	City 6 Mario the Magnificent "Drexel Fight Song"
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 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

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