Villanova Univeristy Athletics

John McAndrews is a 1930 graduate of Villanova and was inducted to the Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1982. He was a three-sport athlete for the Wildcats, including being a three-year member of the varsity baseball team for which he earned his Hall of Fame induction. He also played four years of varsity football and was a member of the boxing team for his freshman and sophomore seasons.
 
The baseball team was 39-25 (.609) during McAndrews’ career, including an 18-4 mark in 1928. Head coach Charles McGeehan’s squad that year came within eight runs of an undefeated season. Villanova lost four games by a total of eight runs, including a 12-8 loss to the professional Wilkes-Barre team which was a member of the New York-Penn League. The other defeats were narrow setbacks to Fordham (3-1), Bucknell (1-0 in 10 innings) and NYU (3-2).  The team went 9-0 at home and closed the season with a nine-game winning streak from May 8 through the concluding game against Lehigh on June 9.
 
McAndrews primarily played first base for the Wildcats, and the team followed its 1928 success by going 21-21 over the next two seasons (9-10 in 1929 and 12-11 in 1930).
 
As a football player McAndrews played from 1926-29 under Harry Stuhldreher, a member of Notre Dame’s legendary “four horsemen backfield” who was the Villanova head coach from the 1925-35 seasons. McAndrews was part of one of the most successful stretches in program history for the Wildcats gridiron squad. The team compiled a record of 26-5-3 (.809) while McAndrews was on the roster, including an unbeaten (7-0-1) season in 1928. Among the more notable victories for Villanova during McAndrews’ career was a 24-6 triumph over North Carolina State at Franklin Field on November 23, 1929.
 
Outside of athletics, McAndrews played two years of intra-fraternity basketball as a freshman and a sophomore, was the freshman class secretary and served as Vice President of Delta Pi Epsilon his freshman year. The product of Mount St. Mary’s Prep school graduated from Villanova with a B.S. in Economics.