1927 Detroit Titans football team

1927 Detroit Titans football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumUniversity of Detroit Stadium
Seasons
← 1926
1928 →
1927 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Notre Dame     7 2 1
Detroit     7 2 0
Ball Teachers     5 2 1
Marquette     6 3 0
Michigan Tech     2 1 0
Haskell     5 3 1
Butler     4 3 1
John Carroll     3 2 3
Saint Louis     5 5 0
Lombard     4 4 0
Loyola (IL)     4 4 0
Michigan State     4 5 0
Northern Illinois State     1 4 1
Kent State     1 5 1
Valparaiso     1 5 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1927 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit as an independent during the 1927 college football season. Detroit outscored opponents by a combined total of 235 to 47 and finished with a 7–2 record in their third year under head coach Gus Dorais.[1][2] The team's losses came in games against Knute Rockne's 1927 Notre Dame team that has been rated as a national champion and against Army which was the only team to beat Notre Dame in 1927.

The team was led by halfback Lloyd Brazil of whom coach Dorais later said: "As far as I'm concerned, there were only three great collegiate backs in my lifetime -- Jim Thorpe, George Gipp and Lloyd Brazil."[3]

  1. ^ "1927 Detroit Mercy Titans Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "Detroit Yearly Results (1925-1929)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Lyall Smith (April 7, 1965). "Lloyd Brazil: Titans' Titan". Detroit Free Press. p. 27.