1927 Princeton Tigers football team

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1927 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles R. Moeser
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1926
1928 →
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
Princeton     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

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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

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  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.