1927 Princeton Tigers football team

1927 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–1
Head coach	Bill Roper (14th season)
Captain	Charles R. Moeser
Home stadium	Palmer Stadium

1927 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1	Amherst	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 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 22	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 21–10	32,000	[2]
October 29	William & Mary	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 35–7
November 5	Ohio State	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 20–0	36,000	[3]
November 12	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 6–14	80,000	[4]

References

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.