1955 Drexel Dragons football team

1955 Drexel Dragons football
1955 Drexel Dragons football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–0
Head coach	Eddie Allen (6th season);
Captains	Ev Gest; Art Del Campo;
Home stadium	Drexel Field
	Seasons ← 1954 1956 →

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.

1955 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Alfred		–		8	–	0	–	0
Drexel		–		8	–	0	–	0
Trinity (CT)		–		7	–	0	–	0
Juniata		–		8	–	0	–	1
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	1	–	1
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
Penn State		–		5	–	4	–	0
Buffalo		–		4	–	4	–	1
Hofstra		–		3	–	6	–	0
Bucknell		–		2	–	6	–	1
Boston University		–		2	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		2	–	6	–	0
Villanova		–		1	–	9	–	0
Temple		–		0	–	8	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 30	Night	at West Chester	Wayne Field West Chester, PA	W 7–0
October 8	Afternoon	Ursinus	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 20–13
October 15		Franklin & Marshall	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 23–6
October 22	Afternoon	at Lycoming	Williamsport, PA	W 33–14
October 29	2:00 pm	Johns Hopkins	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–13	6,500
November 5	Afternoon	at Western Maryland	Hoffa Field Westminster, MD	W 34–13
November 12		Coast Guard	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–7
November 19		at Pennsylvania Military	Chester, PA	W 20–6	5,000
Homecoming All times are in Eastern time

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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
G		Bob Miller	Sr
C, LB	`22`	Ev Gest (C)	Sr
G	`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
G		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