1927 Yale Bulldogs football team

1927 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Boand System,[1] CFRA)
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainBill Webster
Home stadiumYale Bowl
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 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 157 to 32.[2] The team was rated as one of the greatest to ever represent Yale.[3] The team included two consensus All-Americans (John Charlesworth and Bill Webster) and was retroactively recognized by the Boand System[1] and College Football Researchers Association as the national champion for 1927. The team was ranked No. 5 in the nation in the Dickinson System ratings released in December 1927.[4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference IllustratedFootballAnnual1937 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "1927 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Success of 1927 Blue Team Refutes Criticism of Jones' Coaching". The Brooklyn Standard Union. November 21, 1927. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Illinois Rated As America's Champs: Dr. Dickinson of Illinois Devises Rating System for Grid Teams". The Morning Call. December 4, 1927. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.