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
1927 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
Army    9 1 0
Springfield    7 0 2
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

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 21–10
October 29 William & Mary
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 35–7
November 5 Ohio State
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ
W 20–036,000
November 12at Yale L 6–1480,000[2]

References

  1. "1927 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. 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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