1927 Princeton Tigers football team

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.

1927 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles R. Moeser
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
1927 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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
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
Providence    1 4 2
Franklin & Marshall    1 7 1
Lehigh    1 7 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

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.
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