1939 Drexel Dragons football team
American college football season
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1939 Drexel Dragons football team represented Drexel Institute of Technologyânow known as Drexel University as a member of the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference during the 1939 college football season. Led by 13th-year head coach Walter Halas, the Dragons compiled an overall record of 3â5â1 with a mark of 0â1â1 in conference play, tying for fourth place at the bottom of the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference standings.[1][2]
Record3â5â1 (0â1â1 Eastern Pennsylvania)
Headcoach
- Walter Halas (13th season)
HomestadiumDrexel Field
| 1939 Drexel Dragons football | |
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| Conference | Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference |
| Record | 3â5â1 (0â1â1 Eastern Pennsylvania) |
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| Home stadium | Drexel Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gettysburg $ | 3 | â | 0 | â | 1 | 6 | â | 2 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Muhlenberg | 2 | â | 1 | â | 0 | 6 | â | 4 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Franklin & Marshall | 1 | â | 1 | â | 1 | 5 | â | 3 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drexel | 0 | â | 1 | â | 1 | 3 | â | 5 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ursinus | 0 | â | 3 | â | 1 | 2 | â | 5 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Drexel was ranked at No. 435 in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[3]
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
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| September 23 | Blue Ridge (MD)* |
| W 20â0 | ||
| September 30 | at Geneva* | Beaver Falls, PA | L 7â13 | ||
| October 7 | 2:00 pm | Hartwick* |
| W 9â0 | |
| October 14 | at Gettysburg | Gettysburg, PA | L 7â60 | ||
| October 21 | Swarthmore* |
| L 0â14 | ||
| October 28 | RandolphâMacon* |
| L 6â7 | 2,000 | |
| November 4 | at Juniata* | Selinsgrove, PA | L 13â20 | ||
| November 11 | Ursinus |
| T 14â14 | ||
| November 18 | at Johns Hopkins* | Baltimore, MD | W 26â6 | ||
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Roster
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