1928 West Chester Golden Rams football team

1928 West Chester Golden Rams football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
CaptainNed Hopkins
Home stadiumWayne Field
Seasons
← 1927
1929 →
1928 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College     9 0 0
West Chester     8 0 0
Villanova     7 0 1
Brown     8 1 0
No. 11 Penn     8 1 0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech     7 1 0
No. 9 Army     8 2 0
Drexel     8 2 0
No. 10 NYU     8 2 0
Temple     7 1 2
Lafayette     6 1 2
Princeton     5 1 2
CCNY     4 1 2
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Harvard     5 2 1
Tufts     5 2 1
Colgate     6 3 0
Rutgers     6 3 0
Bucknell     5 2 3
Columbia     5 3 1
Boston University     3 3 2
Cornell     3 3 2
Syracuse     4 4 1
Yale     4 4 0
Fordham     4 5 0
Franklin & Marshall     4 5 0
Penn State     3 5 1
Lehigh     3 6 0
Washington & Jefferson     2 5 2
Providence     1 5 3
Vermont     1 7 2
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1928 West Chester Golden Rams football team was an American football team that represented West Chester State College (now known as West Chester University) as an independent during the 1928 college football season. In their fifth and final year under head coach James McGovern, the Golden Rams compiled a perfect 8–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 104 to 27.[1][2]

The 1928 season was one of five perfect seasons in West Chester Rams football history, the others being 1923, 1952, 1957, and 1960.[3]

The team played its home game at Wayne Field in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

  1. ^ "West Chester Football Record Book: History of WCU Football" (PDF). West Chester University. p. 4. Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  2. ^ "Teacher Students Celebrate Victory". Lancaster Daily Intelligencer Journal. November 20, 1928. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ West Chester Football Record Book: History of WCU Football, p. 9.