1927 Princeton Tigers football team

1927 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles R. Moeser
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1927 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tufts   –   8 – 0 – 0
Springfield   –   7 – 0 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   7 – 0 – 2
No. 6 Army   –   9 – 1 – 0
No. 2 Pittsburgh   –   8 – 1 – 1
Temple   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 5 Yale   –   7 – 1 – 0
NYU   –   7 – 1 – 2
  –   6 – 1 – 0
Villanova   –   6 – 1 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 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
Providence   –   1 – 4 – 2
Franklin & Marshall   –   1 – 7 – 1
Lehigh   –   1 – 7 – 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1927 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1927 college football season. The team finished with a 6–1 record under 14th-year head coach Bill Roper. The Tigers outscored opponents by a combined total of 151 to 31, and their sole loss was in the final game of the season by a 14–6 score against Yale.[1] No Princeton were selected as first-team honorees on the 1927 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 AmherstW 14–0
October 8 Lehigh
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 42–0
October 15 Washington and Lee
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 13–0
October 22at CornellW 21–1032,000[2]
October 29 William & Mary
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–7
November 5 Ohio State
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 20–036,000[3]
November 12at Yale L 6–1480,000[4]

References

  1. ^ "1927 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Tigers Down Cornell: Angry Tiger Comes From Behind to Beat Cornell". Times Union. October 23, 1927. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Stan Baumgartner (November 6, 1927). "Tigers Display Brilliant Offensive Power and Turn Back Ohio State Invaders: Blocked Punts Prove Costly To Ohio Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 3S – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Perry Lewis (November 13, 1927). "Yale Downs Tiger Foe in Uphill Battle, 14-6". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 3S – via Newspapers.com.