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
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–3
Head coach
  • None
CaptainN. D. Holbrook
1894 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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. This is one of the earliest recorded deaths of an American football player due to injuries sustained during a game.

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