Frank Reagan

Frank Reagan

Reagan on a 1948 Bowman football card
Position:	Safety, punter
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1919-07-28)July 28, 1919
Place of birth:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date of death:	November 20, 1972(1972-11-20) (aged 53)
Place of death:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Height:	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight:	182 lb (83 kg)
Career information
High school:	Northeast Catholic (PA)
College:	Penn
NFL Draft:	1941 / Round: 2 / Pick: 22
Career history
As player:
New York Giants (1941, 1946–1948) Philadelphia Eagles (1949–1951)
As coach:
Philadelphia Eagles (1952–1953) (backfield) Villanova (1954–1959) (head coach)
As administrator:
Villanova (1957–1961) (athletic director)

Francis Xavier "Frank" Reagan (July 28, 1919 – November 20, 1972) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played professionally for the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles during a seven-season National Football League (NFL) career that spanned from 1941 to 1951. Reagan served as the head football coach at Villanova University from 1954 to 1959, compiling a record of 16–36. He was also Villanova's athletic director from 1957 to 1961.

Born in Philadelphia, Reagan was a star quarterback and defensive back at Northeast Catholic High School and led the team to championships in 1935 and 1936. He was voted 1st Team All-Scholastic by the Philadelphia Bulletin in his senior year.

Reagan then played college football at the University of Pennsylvania. Standing 5'11" and 182 lbs., Reagan was a varsity player during George Munger's first three seasons as head coach of the Penn Quakers, from 1938 to 1940. Reagan's 135 points scored is still ninth all-time in UPenn history and his 103 points scored as a senior is the second most in one season in over 120 years of Penn football. Reagan had one of the great individual performances of all time against Princeton on October 19, 1940, rushing for 200 yards, scoring five touchdowns and 31 points in a 46–28 victory at Franklin Field. In a game at Michigan in 1938, Reagan was responsible for 356 total yards, rushing for 85, passing for 188, returning kickoffs for 82 and punts for 21. Reagan was named a 1st Team All-American Back for the 1940 season. A captain of both the football and baseball teams, he was awarded the 1941 "Class of 1915 Award" as that member of the senior class who, “most closely approaches the ideal University of Pennsylvania student-athlete”. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called him "one of the two best running backs in college football", the other being Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon of the University of Michigan.