1927 Columbia Lions football team

The 1927 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach Charles Crowley, the team compiled a 5–2–2 record and outscored opponents 135 to 54, with five shutouts.^[1] The team played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan.

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24		Vermont	Baker Field New York, NY	W 32–0		^[2]
October 1		Union (NY)	Baker Field New York, NY	W 28–0
October 8		Wesleyan	Baker Field New York, NY	W 28–0
October 15		Colgate	Baker Field New York, NY	L 7–13
October 22		Williams	Baker Field New York, NY	W 19–0
October 29		at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0
November 5		Johns Hopkins	Baker Field New York, NY	T 7–7
November 12		at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–27
November 24	2:00 p.m.	Syracuse	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 14–7	35,000	^[3]^[4]

^ "1927 Columbia Lions Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
^ "Columbia beats Vermont gridders". Times Union. September 25, 1927. Retrieved June 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Syracuse Battles Lions". Daily News. New York, New York. November 24, 1927. p. 144. Retrieved June 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
^ Cross, Harry (November 25, 1927). "Columbia Snaps Out Of The Ruck". The Post-Star. Glens Falls, New York. p. 9. Retrieved June 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .

v t Columbia Lions football
Venues	Polo Grounds (1880–1883, 1890, 1899, 1901–1903, 1920–1927, 1936) (1889) (1891) (1900) American League Park (1904–1905) (1915–1923) Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium (1923–1982, 1984–present) Giants Stadium (1983)
Bowls & rivalries	1934 Rose Bowl Cornell Liberty Cup (Fordham)
Culture & lore	Roaree the Lion "Roar, Lion, Roar" The Union Club
People	NFL draftees
Seasons	1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885–1888 1889 1890 1891 1892–1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906–1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
National championship seasons in bold

1927 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Tufts		–		8	–	0	–	0
Army		–		9	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		7	–	0	–	2
Pittsburgh		–		8	–	1	–	1
Temple		–		7	–	1	–	0
Yale		–		7	–	1	–	0
NYU		–		7	–	1	–	2
Princeton		–		6	–	1	–	0
Villanova		–		6	–	1	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	2	–	1
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	2	–	1
Columbia		–		5	–	2	–	2
Bucknell		–		6	–	3	–	1
Colgate		–		4	–	2	–	3
CCNY		–		4	–	2	–	2
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
Cornell		–		3	–	3	–	2
Boston University		–		3	–	4	–	1
Drexel		–		3	–	5	–	1
Fordham		–		3	–	5	–	0
Brown		–		3	–	6	–	1
Vermont		–		2	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		1	–	7	–	1
Lehigh		–		1	–	7	–	1