1948 Drexel Dragons football team

1948 Drexel Dragons football
1948 Drexel Dragons football
Conference	Independent
Record	0–8
Head coach	Ralph Chase (3rd season; first 5 games); Maury McMains (final 3 games);
Captain	Charlie Pascale
Home stadium	Drexel Field
	Seasons ← 1947 1949 →

The 1948 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1948 college football season. Ralph Chase was the team's head coach for the first five games of the season, when Maury McMains took over head coaching duties in order to allow Chase to focus on coaching the basketball team.^[1]

1948 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 6 Army		–		8	–	0	–	1
Penn State		–		7	–	1	–	1
Buffalo		–		6	–	1	–	1
Villanova		–		8	–	2	–	1
Boston University		–		6	–	2	–	0
Boston College		–		5	–	2	–	2
Pittsburgh		–		6	–	3	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		5	–	3	–	1
CCNY		–		3	–	4	–	1
Tufts		–		3	–	4	–	1
Colgate		–		3	–	6	–	0
Fordham		–		3	–	6	–	0
NYU		–		3	–	6	–	0
Temple		–		2	–	6	–	1
Duquesne		–		2	–	7	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		1	–	7	–	0
Hofstra		–		0	–	6	–	2
Bucknell		–		1	–	8	–	0
Syracuse		–		1	–	8	–	0
Drexel		–		0	–	8	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Gettysburg	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–28
October 2	at Ursinus	Collegeville, PA	L 7–19
October 9	at Lehigh	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA	L 0–45	5,000	^[2]
October 16	Haverford	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 6–7
October 23	at Pennsylvania Military	Chester, PA	L 6–33
October 30	Johns Hopkins	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–22
November 6	Dickinson	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 12–14
November 13	at Swarthmore		L 13–33
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