1894 Drexel Dragons football team

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.

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

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

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