1927 Drexel Dragons football team

American college football season

1927 Drexel Dragons football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–5–1
Head coach	Walter Halas (1st season)
Seasons← 1926 1928 →

1927 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Tufts		–		8	–	0	–	0
Springfield		–		7	–	0	–	2
Washington & Jefferson		–		7	–	0	–	2
No. 6 Army		–		9	–	1	–	0
No. 2 Pittsburgh		–		8	–	1	–	1
Temple		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 5 Yale		–		7	–	1	–	0
NYU		–		7	–	1	–	2
Princeton		–		6	–	1	–	0
Villanova		–		6	–	1	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	2	–	1
Columbia		–		5	–	2	–	2
Bucknell		–		6	–	3	–	1
Colgate		–		4	–	2	–	3
CCNY		–		4	–	2	–	2
Lafayette		–		5	–	3	–	1
Penn		–		6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse		–		5	–	3	–	2
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	4	–	1
Boston College		–		4	–	4	–	0
Harvard		–		4	–	4	–	0
Rutgers		–		4	–	4	–	0
Cornell		–		3	–	3	–	2
Boston University		–		3	–	4	–	1
Drexel		–		3	–	5	–	1
Fordham		–		3	–	5	–	0
Brown		–		3	–	6	–	1
Vermont		–		2	–	6	–	0
Providence		–		1	–	4	–	2
Franklin & Marshall		–		1	–	7	–	1
Lehigh		–		1	–	7	–	1

Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1927 Drexel Dragons football team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry—now known as Drexel University—in the 1927 college football season. The team was led by Walter Halas in his first season as head coach.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 24	at Juniata		T 0–0
October 1	at Schuylkill	Reading, PA	L 0–12
October 8	at Carnegie Tech	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA	L 0–58
October 15	at Susquehanna	Aikens Field Selinsgrove, PA	L 0–13
October 22	at Haverford	Haverford, PA	L 0–26	3,000
October 29	Upsala	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 43–0
November 5	New York Aggies	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	W 51–0
November 12	Saint Joseph's	Drexel Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–7	10,000
November 19	Washington College	Philadelphia, PA	W 19–6

Roster

1927 Drexel Dragons football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Head coach

Walter Halas (Illinois)

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

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

Injured
Redshirt

References

"Drexel Grid Team Plays Ten Games Next Season" (PDF). The Drexel Triangle. January 25, 1928. p. 1. Retrieved December 21, 2017.

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

This college football 1927 season article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: