1927 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1927 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (CFRA)
ConferenceIndependent
1927 record7–1
Head coach
  • Tad Jones
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1926
1928 →
1927 Eastern college football independents records
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

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 5–1 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]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 1Bowdoin
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 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 Harvard
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 14–0

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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