1927 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1927 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1927 college football season. They finished with a 7–1 record.[1] Running back Bruce Caldwell was suspended after the 51 start. Although most selectors have named either Illinois or Georgia as the 1927 national champion, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, the College Football Researchers Association.[2]

1927 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (CFRA)
ConferenceIndependent
1927 record7–1
Head coachTad Jones
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1927 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Tufts      8 0 0
Geneva      8 0 1
Army      9 1 0
Pittsburgh      8 1 1
Temple      7 1 0
Yale      7 1 0
Princeton      6 1 0
Villanova      6 1 0
Penn State      6 2 1
Carnegie Tech      5 2 1
Columbia      5 2 2
Colgate      4 2 3
Lafayette      5 3 1
Penn      6 4 0
Syracuse      5 3 2
Carnegie Tech      5 4 1
Boston College      4 4 0
Harvard      4 4 0
Rutgers      4 4 0
Duquesne      4 4 1
Cornell      3 3 2
Drexel      3 5 1
Fordham      3 5 0
Brown      3 6 1
Franklin & Marshall      1 7 1
Lehigh      1 7 1

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 1BowdoinW 41–0
October 8Georgia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 10–14
October 15Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 22Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–6
October 29Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
November 5Maryland
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–6
November 12Princeton
W 14–6
November 19at HarvardW 14–0
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References

  1. "1927 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
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