Sport events aren't regularly attended, and we have no football team - making our homecoming affiliated with the basketball team that not a lot of students support. Contact Us Fans relived memorable comebacks and unforgettable rain-soaked games. Club Sports Overview. Schedule; Posted Tue, Mar 5 2019 Fortunately, they were able to resume a year later in 1944. The team started off the year with back-to-back victories, the first over Fordham University and the next over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The 1899 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach. The Drexel Football Team will present “Lost in Space” Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. in Nesbitt Hall. Attendance at the football games was always higher for the homecoming game than any other game, especially in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the team struggled to draw a crowd. “The reality is we paraded up that street every day because we largely walked up to practice,” Barry Cole, a wide receiver on the team from 1971-73, said. And it all centered around one football game, the capstone of the week’s events. The annual homecoming football game was a big social athletic event.”. What makes Drexel in 2014 different from the schools that the 1973 football team played? There's no one type of Drexel student and the University's clubs and activities reflect its diversity. The College of Charleston appeared to be in line for a conference championship before the season even began. Looking for 2017 info? Feb 29 @ College of Charleston, Drexel (13-18) Loss vs. College of Charleston, 66-75 Drexel lost the game 16-15 on a last-minute field goal that tipped off of the upright and in to give LIU Post the victory. But it didn’t change the fact that football was gone and the hopes for reinstatement were reduced to the outside chance at revival. Some thought that football was cut because of an institutional bias towards basketball. Pages in category "Drexel Dragons football seasons" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Drexel University has 18 Division I varsity sports teams, but football isn’t one of them. However, the team wallowed in perpetual mediocrity until they hired a familiar name for the position. They had quietly formed a committee to look into the issue. Box Score Tournament Bracket Posted Fri, Nov 13 2020 He also put an emphasis on engineering and created standard two and four-year academic programs. The Triangle is an independent student organization and is not owned nor operated by Drexel University. Their name serves as an ode to the past, somewhat of an ironic answer to one of the three essential questions every Drexel student will ask at some point during their four or five years at the school: What is the Drexel Shaft? There was also uproar over the fact that there was no football player represented on the committee; the team felt that their voices should have been heard. THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THIS THREE-PART SERIES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE. Halas as their coach for football, basketball, and baseball. The college football season was over, but that didn’t stop Drexel’s team. The Triangle reported that the new center cost about $8.6 million to build and would cost $250,000 annually to operate. Brown didn’t see why it would ever happen. Recreation Center - Rec Athletics Office Suite, 1st Floor 215-571-3236 | intramuralsports@drexel.edu The Intramural Sports Program is designed to offer various leagues, tournaments, and special events throughout the year to serve a large & diverse student body. “We had some pretty exciting games.”. The high point of Halas’ 15-year career as Drexel’s head coach was winning the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Championship in 1937, perhaps the most important win of the 71 he had during his career at the school. McAvoy, was hired in 1920. The team’s roster consists entirely of some of the least athletic people on Drexel’s campus: members of the improvisational comedy club. Sports Offered Intramural Sports Office. There seemed to be a growing frustration with the lack of interest in the sport. What we do have here at Drexel is a top notch mid-major basketball team. ©2021 The Triangle. The Drexel Football Team is an improvisational comedy group. “Homecoming was always a big deal,” Pat Joy, class of 1966 graduate and former news and managing editor of The Triangle, said. That’s the name of the university’s improv comedy club. “We scored a touchdown before the half to cut it to 21-7.”. Basketball now serves as the sport at the center of homecoming week, although often times more of the campus focus is on the annual concert. That final win of the 1973 season came against Albright College in their annual Pretzel Bowl. Football was already the biggest mouth for the athletic department to feed, and it was about to get bigger as well. They were all good-looking and all put together.”, They explain what they do as a mix of games and long-form skits, or more simply, stuff you would see on the television show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”. “That’s a lot of B.S.,” Brown told The Triangle in 1973. “Big 5 schools would never allow Drexel to share the spotlight. Those who remained saw the hopes of yet another season dashed and a long offseason of training ahead. Division II, where many of Drexel’s local rivals would look to play, was too expensive for the football team. This will be based on an idea from USA Football 7 on 7 tackle football played on a smaller field. The year will forever live as the peak of Drexel football. A year later, students again made a push for football. The Drexel Football Team (noun) No, Drexel does not have an actual football team. It was late and the temperature was plunging. Walter Halas was hired as the head coach of Drexel’s football, baseball and basketball teams in 1927. “It gave me pretty good insight as to what the administration was thinking, and I clearly remember him discussing the football team. This season, the Drexel men’s basketball team will take on The College of William & Mary for their homecoming game Jan. 25. As game attendance grew post-WWII, so did the team’s on-field success. Feb 27 @ UNC Wilmington, Drexel (13-17) Loss vs. North Carolina-Wilmington, 65-76 31. Although they have not been competing for long, the team just recently brought home third place in the Liberty Bell Regional at the College Improv Tournament. The first semblance of a team came in 1892 and was entirely student-run. Who is that guy yelling at the basketball games? It will mark the 40th homecoming without football. Albright was a strong opponent, and nobody really expected Drexel to hang around with them. He pointed out — and this would be in the 1965 time frame — that the football team took 50 percent of the total athletic budget.”. Behind the scenes, though, the University did not seem as committed to football as Brown wanted his players to be. Utilize the left navigation to find past seasons, game schedules, rosters and more. Everybody would go to the football game. Skip To Main Content. I hear Drexel students try to justify their lack of school spirit by using that sad, pathetic excuse. They would have had to pour more resources into a program that they felt was already overfunded. Godfrey ended up being the president who transformed the school completely. A schedule of events posted in the Oct. 16, 1970, edition of The Triangle boasted a concert by The Grateful Dead the Friday before a game against Lehigh University and “fraternity parties” immediately following the concert and Saturday’s game. If I had a good thing going, as the Big 5 schools do, I would want to cut someone out, not in.”. The administration put a fund drive in place to help raise $700,000 per year to make payments on the building. Homecoming festivities were in full swing, students and alumni were back together, beer and spirits were ever-flowing. All of these other schools still play football, and Drexel does not. The team and fans would parade their way down Powelton Avenue, past the row of fraternity houses, toward what is now known as the Vidas Athletic Complex. Brown and the players pushed on through the 1973 season, not paying attention to the board’s proceedings; they had a tough schedule and needed to stay focused. Not too small, there's still so many people I have yet to meet. At the end of 1913, Hollis Godfrey was named the president of the school. The board of trustees had taken issue with the amount of money that football was taking from the athletics budget starting in 1971. “The coaches were blindsided too,” Spagnolo added. But for us, nobody is going to take you for a year, and you’re not going to want to transfer for a year. The Triangle is an independent student organization and is not owned nor operated by Drexel University. Drexel does not have a football team due to its location in West Philadelphia, which does not have enough space for a football stadium. Recreational Athletics is an office within the Department of Athletics and works closely with the Office of Campus Activities to provide oversight and guidance for officially recognized student organizations that meet the criteria of being a Club Sport. Hagerty told The Triangle that the low student interest and the sport’s “impingement” on other sports in the athletic department were considered. The Drexel Dragons have … Got a question? This game was part of the 2020 Missouri High School Football Playoff Brackets: MSHSAA - 8-Man tournament. The official Softball page for the Drexel University Dragons. They remind people of what once was with their name and jokes of being undefeated since the 1970s, but the full picture of the past has seldom been explained. The cut of Drexel’s football program would be looked at by the school, students, alumni, athletes and fans from every angle imaginable. Seriously, why doesn’t Drexel have a football team? Surely, they will fill the 2,500-plus seats of the Daskalakis Athletic Center, but some of the tradition feels lost. If the voices of Brown and the players weren’t heard, then fans and alumni certainly tried to make theirs loud enough. Each year, more than 9,000 students participate in club or intramural sports. meet our dream team team. They had their first — and only — undefeated season, finishing 8-0. 2019 Football Season. The end of Drexel football came Nov. 19, 1973. “From our standpoint, we were just totally floored,” Cole said about the cut. Athletics: Drexel is a member of the NCAA and has 18 Division I teams. We’re here. If we were freshmen or sophomores, you can still play for a couple more years. They couldn’t fall that easily in their own homecoming game, could they? Sterling Brown was at the helm to coach the team. We got screwed.”. Drexel is getting more and more attention and accreditation from peers and employers. There's something (or probably two or three "somethings") for everyone. In the press release sent out to make the announcement public, the school cited the budgetary issues with continuing to fund football as well as opening the new Physical Education Athletic Center. They pressed on, though; they had notes to review and improvements to make. The team will take the judges’ criticism and use it to improve as they near show time. Why doesn’t Drexel have a football team? Some thought that football lacked the proper alumni support for long-term sustainability. Drexel lacks unity, which may be due to a lot of reasons. The successes all culminated in 1955, when Drexel had its best football season in history. View the 2020 season's individual player's stats and career pages for the Drexel/Miami football team including receiving yards per game, rushing yards per game, total tds, tackles per game, sacks, interceptions, passing tds, receiving tds, rushing tds, caused fumbles, fumble recoveries, completion percentage and qb rating. The classic annual Homecoming events continued into the 1970s, when the football team was disbanded. Good luck this fall! Letters poured in, some by mail and some by Western Union. Under McAvoy’s direction, Drexel joined the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletics Conference. Over the last 40 years, Drexel administrators have been handing out the convenient Kool-Aid that cost is the real issue and that football is too expensive a sport to fund. The bus ride back from their 9-0 loss to the United States Coast Guard Academy in the final game of the season was sure to be depressing, even without the news they were about to hear. Its the perfect size, not too big, I run into people I know on the way to class. The 1973 Drexel football season began just like seasons past had begun. One of the committee members was a professor, John Savchak, who had played basketball at Drexel as an undergraduate, so some saw that as a conflict of interest. “We sort of felt like we owned Powelton Avenue,” he added, with his former teammate Steve Spagnolo giving a nod and wry smile of approval next to him. At the time, nobody would have guessed that in less than 20 years time, Drexel football would be clinging to life support. Division I was for the big boys, the powerhouse football and basketball teams that were a way of life in some parts of the country. Who is that guy yelling at the basketball games? The purpose is to introduce the tackle game to the younger players. This causes Drexel to push back their Homecoming to winter, featuring a men’s basketball game as the Homecoming game. The list of athletic opportunities is extensive, including everything from ultimate frisbee and track to rugby and water polo. Vidas also played a season of basketball and lacrosse, and was named to the Drexel Athletics Hall of Fame in 1973. Their name serves as an ode to the past, somewhat of an ironic answer to one of the three essential questions every Drexel student will ask at some point during their four or five years at the school: What is the Drexel Shaft? When Drexel had a football program, Homecoming was similar to the standard Homecoming held at other colleges and universities. Drexel fielded a football team from 1895 to 1973, with the sport being discontinued after the 1973 season in order to increase funding for other sports teams. All rights are reserved, except where otherwise noted. Following the 1973 season, the football team was discontinued in order to redistribute the funds among other intercollegiate sports and intramural programs. Drexel wouldn’t go away, though. A class of seniors was graduating, including standout linebacker Ed Shubert, who Cole and Spagnolo both said was the best player with whom they had ever played. “Students at a co-op university are doers rather than watchers,” Hagerty said at the time, trying to explain the low interest. The third-place finish was their best tournament finish ever, and they may have also brought home a new rival in tournament, winner Johns Hopkins University. A 1959 graduate, Vidas is the only player in Drexel history to be named to two All-American teams. The win over Gettysburg still sticks out in the minds of Cole and Spagnolo to this day. Still, the football program was axed to help fund it. The Big 5 was formed in 1954 and consists to this day of La Salle University, the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Saint Joseph’s University and Villanova University. Alumni flocked back to campus to join in the fun and relive their college days. Their next opponent was Long Island University C.W. Drexel’s Delaware County estate as their first home playing field, leaving one less reason for the school to take away the sport. The college basketball season has been underway now for a few weeks and it has been a challenge for every team in the country in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drexel pulled off the unlikely upset, winning the game 16-7. Barry Cole, who along with Steve Spagnolo was among the first group of freshmen to be allowed to play varsity football, described Brown as “this little fiery guy who was probably about 3-foot-2 and chewed tobacco.”, Prior to the 1971 season, Brown sat his team down and gave a short speech that Cole hasn’t forgotten to this day: “You guys aren’t here to go school,” Cole said, mimicking Brown’s raspy voice from over 40 years ago, “you’re here to play football.”. What was amazing about homecoming was its ability to bring the campus together. And just because they have traded in the gridiron for bright lights and a stage doesn’t mean they lack a fierce competitive edge. It was Drexel’s first of three losses in their final four games. In 1951, the first Homecoming Queen was crowned. “The close friendships and the tremendous sense of accomplishment it affords its participants simply cannot be measured in terms of dollars and cents.”. Graduating linebacker Ed Shubert pleaded to The Triangle for football to be reinstated, even though he had just played his final game as a senior. Some thought it was to satisfy the landmark Title IX that was passed as part of the 1972 Educational Amendments Act, which requires gender equity at all institutions of education that used any kind of federal funding. View the 20-21 Drexel/Miami varsity football team schedule. Godfrey is the one responsible for developing the co-op system that we know today. The players were notified that the University’s board of trustees president, William Hagerty, and Director of Athletics John Semanik had cut the football program. The Cougars had the talent: The top six scorers returned from a 25-win team. When football was cut, it was taking up somewhere in the range of 40-50 percent of the athletics budget. ©2021 The Triangle. There were wild parties. Gettysburg — one of the tougher opponents on Drexel’s schedule — was trying to ruin the party. Under Halas’ direction, the football team made its turnaround. “I don’t think they saw this coming either.”, Spagnolo continued, “We were both finishing our junior years when they cut football, and when you think about it, we were the ones who got screwed the most. There were big parties at night. Most universities this large have football teams. However, the bus ride back dashed the hopes of the very future of the Drexel football program. Get The Triangle's top stories directly to your inbox every Friday, THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY SINCE 1926. The NCAA, the main governing body and rule-maker for college sports, was reorganizing their competition structure. But on homecoming, the trip drew a special importance. They established A.J. Get The Triangle's top stories directly to your inbox every Friday, THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY SINCE 1926. It would prove to be the program’s final victory, as the team was cut at the conclusion of the season. “A person who has not played intercollegiate football could not understand what the game really does for a person,” Shubert said, pointing out football’s intangible benefits. It was a trip that the players made every day on their way to practices or games. THE SECOND PART OF THIS THREE-PART SERIES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE. One said that even though Drexel football would be remembered as more of a “doormat” than a “football power,” some of their games were unforgettable. Homecoming used to be a tradition unlike any other at Drexel. And university president John A. Fry thinks other schools should follow suit. The mere existence of the Drexel Football Team as a comedy group raises more questions than it answers for most. He told them that Drexel was going to win, for which he was met with crazy looks. LIU Post came out “looking like the Green Bay Packers,” as Cole remembered, and proved to be a tough test. World War II placed Drexel football in rocky times, and the school had to suspend the program in 1943. Scholarships would be honored and transfers would be granted if so desired, but that was it. Since 2005, Drexel’s student-run improv group has gone by the moniker of the “Drexel Football Team,” a not so subtle jab at the University’s absence of a team for America’s most popular sport. Drexel Athletics are a big part of campus culture. In 1928, the team went 8-1, and in the 1930s, the University saw increases in funding, interest and enrollment. Football at Drexel University was born from humble beginnings. Drexel unfortunately does not. Virginia Halas McCaskey — George’s daughter and Walter’s niece — is the current owner of the Bears. Luckily, practice was indoors. Spagnolo was also a wide receiver on the team from 1971-73. As people investigated further, more reasons for the cut came out. It was a turning point for the University, and it solidified Godfrey as one of the most important presidents in Drexel history. “It was late October, early November. The CAA also has football, which includes many of Drexel’s rivals like the University of Delaware and Towson University. There would now be three divisions — I, II and III — so Drexel would have to make a decision on where they stood athletically. The most current information will appear at the top of the wall dating back to prior seasons. It was a brisk mid-January night, and the Drexel University football team had practice. Most of Drexel’s athletic teams play in the Colonial Athletic Association. Drexel Dragons Schedule 2020-21 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 … In 1927, Drexel hired W.H. Hagerty said in the same issue, “It was a matter of eliminating five or six different sports or football to balance the budget.”, “I got to interview [Hagerty] on about a weekly basis,” former news and managing editor of The Triangle Pat Joy said. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). The Dragons won the game in upset fashion by a score of 16-7. It took three years for the team to have its first scheduled season and 15 years for the University — then known as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry — to even sanction intercollegiate athletics. With its increased attention and funding, Drexel football survived World War I, and then the first coach, W.J. The Nov. 30, 1973, issue of The Triangle reported that the overall athletics budget was about $320,000 and football ate $142,873 alone, mostly in operating expenses and scholarships. This list may not reflect recent changes (). The official Softball page for the Drexel University Dragons. The official athletics website for the Drexel University Dragons. The odd fact about the two World Wars is that after each, Drexel saw increased football success. “Why take away the ability to relive old memories?” another asked. He and Cole met in summer training camp as freshmen and have been best friends ever since. Welcome to the Drexel football team wall. Shubert went on to try out for the hometown Philadelphia Eagles but didn’t make the cut. However, due to the “lack of a proper playing field,” according to an archived summary of football’s history at the school, Drexel discontinued football, only two years after it finally became school sanctioned. Florida State University had just defeated Auburn University in an epic National Championship Game as part of the Bowl Championship Series the week before. THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF THIS THREE-PART SERIES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE. THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THIS THREE-PART SERIES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE. At the tournament, judges not only declared the winner, they gave each team notes of constructive criticism. All rights are reserved, except where otherwise noted. Stopper looked like a genius and happily collected his winnings. In 1973, the Drexel football team defeated Albright College in their annual Pretzel Bowl. “We were down 21-nothing in the first quarter against Gettysburg,” Spagnolo recalled. “They were really good, and they deserved to win,” Drexel Football Team treasurer Frieda Beckerman said later, joking, “We hate them because they’re better than everyone. The official athletics website for the Drexel University Dragons. Students were paying a $30 student activity fee at the time, but football just took up too much of the money in athletics. Division III, though, would have required Drexel to develop new rivals and ultimately take a financial risk that administration was not willing to take. The magic of 1955 was to be short-lived, however. There needs to be a football team and a track team to get full campus pride. 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