The first semblance of a team came in 1892 and was entirely student-run. 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 … There's something (or probably two or three "somethings") for everyone. Their next opponent was Long Island University C.W. 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. Most of Drexel’s athletic teams play in the Colonial Athletic Association. It would prove to be the program’s final victory, as the team was cut at the conclusion of the season. The Triangle is an independent student organization and is not owned nor operated by Drexel University. “We came back to win it 28-24 on a last-minute touchdown,” Spagnolo said, a twinkle of nostalgia in his eye. Drexel is getting more and more attention and accreditation from peers and employers. Everybody would go to the football game. With its increased attention and funding, Drexel football survived World War I, and then the first coach, W.J. What makes Drexel in 2014 different from the schools that the 1973 football team played? Drexel lacks unity, which may be due to a lot of reasons. Gettysburg — one of the tougher opponents on Drexel’s schedule — was trying to ruin the party. But it didn’t change the fact that football was gone and the hopes for reinstatement were reduced to the outside chance at revival. “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. “It was late October, early November. 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. Hagerty told The Triangle that the low student interest and the sport’s “impingement” on other sports in the athletic department were considered. “It gave me pretty good insight as to what the administration was thinking, and I clearly remember him discussing the football team. There's no one type of Drexel student and the University's clubs and activities reflect its diversity. THE SECOND PART OF THIS THREE-PART SERIES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE. 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. “The coaches were blindsided too,” Spagnolo added. If you were a senior, you were done your senior year. Each year, more than 9,000 students participate in club or intramural sports. 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. That’s the name of the university’s improv comedy club. View the 20-21 Drexel/Miami varsity football team schedule. In terms of athletics, Godfrey was the first to really see their value and put a university-wide focus on them. 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. What was amazing about homecoming was its ability to bring the campus together. THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THIS THREE-PART SERIES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE. THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF THIS THREE-PART SERIES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE. The official Softball page for the Drexel University Dragons. Some thought that football lacked the proper alumni support for long-term sustainability. Get The Triangle's top stories directly to your inbox every Friday, THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY SINCE 1926. THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THIS THREE-PART SERIES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE. The annual homecoming football game was a big social athletic event.”. Drexel does not have a football team due to its location in West Philadelphia, which does not have enough space for a football stadium. 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. Brown didn’t see why it would ever happen. Get The Triangle's top stories directly to your inbox every Friday, THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY SINCE 1926. Seriously, why doesn’t Drexel have a football team? Greek life came alive. Walter Halas was hired as the head coach of Drexel’s football, baseball and basketball teams in 1927. 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. But for us, nobody is going to take you for a year, and you’re not going to want to transfer for a year. He also put an emphasis on engineering and created standard two and four-year academic programs. They pressed on, though; they had notes to review and improvements to make. “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. This season, the Drexel men’s basketball team will take on The College of William & Mary for their homecoming game Jan. 25. Box Score Tournament Bracket Posted Fri, Nov 13 2020 Sports Offered Intramural Sports Office. The Drexel Football Team will present “Lost in Space” Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. in Nesbitt Hall. 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. Club Sports Overview. 2019 Football Season. When Drexel had a football program, Homecoming was similar to the standard Homecoming held at other colleges and universities. Surely, they will fill the 2,500-plus seats of the Daskalakis Athletic Center, but some of the tradition feels lost. 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. There were other theories, too. 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. In 1973, the Drexel football team defeated Albright College in their annual Pretzel Bowl. The CAA also has football, which includes many of Drexel’s rivals like the University of Delaware and Towson University. However, the bus ride back dashed the hopes of the very future of the Drexel football program. Alumni flocked back to campus to join in the fun and relive their college days. “Homecoming was always a big deal,” Pat Joy, class of 1966 graduate and former news and managing editor of The Triangle, said. The mere existence of the Drexel Football Team as a comedy group raises more questions than it answers for most. Skip To Main Content. The year will forever live as the peak of Drexel football. 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. Stopper looked like a genius and happily collected his winnings. Who is that guy yelling at the basketball games? All rights are reserved, except where otherwise noted. Division II, where many of Drexel’s local rivals would look to play, was too expensive for the football team. We’re here. 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.”. Most universities this large have football teams. The most current information will appear at the top of the wall dating back to prior seasons. 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. As game attendance grew post-WWII, so did the team’s on-field success. The Triangle reported that the new center cost about $8.6 million to build and would cost $250,000 annually to operate. 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? Students were paying a $30 student activity fee at the time, but football just took up too much of the money in athletics. Homecoming festivities were in full swing, students and alumni were back together, beer and spirits were ever-flowing. The purpose is to introduce the tackle game to the younger players. Football is a highly militaristic game, and perhaps Drexel reaped the rewards of the public’s growing obsession with the game. Godfrey ended up being the president who transformed the school completely. 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. All of these other schools still play football, and Drexel does not. If we were freshmen or sophomores, you can still play for a couple more years. The Triangle is an independent student organization and is not owned nor operated by Drexel University. Fans relived memorable comebacks and unforgettable rain-soaked games. Behind the scenes, though, the University did not seem as committed to football as Brown wanted his players to be. 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. There were big parties at night. The college football season was over, but that didn’t stop Drexel’s team. But on homecoming, the trip drew a special importance. 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. This causes Drexel to push back their Homecoming to winter, featuring a men’s basketball game as the Homecoming game. McAvoy, was hired in 1920. Under Halas’ direction, the football team made its turnaround. The Drexel Football Team is an improvisational comedy group. Halas also served 15 years as the school’s Director of Athletics and was inducted into the Drexel Athletics Hall of Fame in 1972. The end of Drexel football came Nov. 19, 1973. “From our standpoint, we were just totally floored,” Cole said about the cut. Some thought that football was cut because of an institutional bias towards basketball. Drexel’s Delaware County estate as their first home playing field, leaving one less reason for the school to take away the sport. Who is that guy yelling at the basketball games? 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. The cut of Drexel’s football program would be looked at by the school, students, alumni, athletes and fans from every angle imaginable. At the end of 1913, Hollis Godfrey was named the president of the school. Feb 29 @ College of Charleston, Drexel (13-18) Loss vs. College of Charleston, 66-75 We got screwed.”. 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. 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 1899 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach. They had their first — and only — undefeated season, finishing 8-0. He and Cole met in summer training camp as freshmen and have been best friends ever since. Fortunately, they were able to resume a year later in 1944. What we do have here at Drexel is a top notch mid-major basketball team. Albright was a strong opponent, and nobody really expected Drexel to hang around with them. Athletics: Drexel is a member of the NCAA and has 18 Division I teams. “Why take away the ability to relive old memories?” another asked. The Drexel Football Team is an improvisational comedy group. Utilize the left navigation to find past seasons, game schedules, rosters and more. “The close friendships and the tremendous sense of accomplishment it affords its participants simply cannot be measured in terms of dollars and cents.”. The official athletics website for the Drexel University Dragons. 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). When football was cut, it was taking up somewhere in the range of 40-50 percent of the athletics budget. Pages in category "Drexel Dragons football seasons" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. 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. Those teams compete at the Football Championship Subdivision level … LIU Post came out “looking like the Green Bay Packers,” as Cole remembered, and proved to be a tough test. “That’s a lot of B.S.,” Brown told The Triangle in 1973. “Big 5 schools would never allow Drexel to share the spotlight. Halas is the older brother of legendary Chicago Bears founder and National Football League icon George Halas. The team started off the year with back-to-back victories, the first over Fordham University and the next over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 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. A 1959 graduate, Vidas is the only player in Drexel history to be named to two All-American teams. 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. 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 odd fact about the two World Wars is that after each, Drexel saw increased football success. ©2021 The Triangle. Welcome to the Drexel football team wall. 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. Vincent Vidas, whose name now brands Drexel’s Vidas Athletic Complex on 43rd Street and Powelton Avenue, was named a Little All-American, anchoring the line. The official Softball page for the Drexel University Dragons. Prior to the game, Drexel running back Andrew Stopper, who was from the Reading, Pa., area, not far from Albright, was fielding bets on the game, a majority of which were placed on Albright. “Students at a co-op university are doers rather than watchers,” Hagerty said at the time, trying to explain the low interest. The win over Gettysburg still sticks out in the minds of Cole and Spagnolo to this day. 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 Dragons won the game in upset fashion by a score of 16-7. “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. There would now be three divisions — I, II and III — so Drexel would have to make a decision on where they stood athletically. 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. The magic of 1955 was to be short-lived, however. They had quietly formed a committee to look into the issue. The classic annual Homecoming events continued into the 1970s, when the football team was disbanded. This game was part of the 2020 Missouri High School Football Playoff Brackets: MSHSAA - 8-Man tournament. 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. There needs to be a football team and a track team to get full campus pride. Virginia Halas McCaskey — George’s daughter and Walter’s niece — is the current owner of the Bears. Not too small, there's still so many people I have yet to meet. Its the perfect size, not too big, I run into people I know on the way to class. 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. Luckily, practice was indoors. “We scored a touchdown before the half to cut it to 21-7.”. 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. After dropping their third game of the year to the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Drexel got back on track and improved to 3-1 with a tough win over Gettysburg College in the 1973 homecoming game. It was a trip that the players made every day on their way to practices or games. Letters poured in, some by mail and some by Western Union. Homecoming used to be a tradition unlike any other at Drexel. 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? It was a turning point for the University, and it solidified Godfrey as one of the most important presidents in Drexel history. 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