The 1927 season
557 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Illinois and Texas A&M claim the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Missouri
- Rocky Mountain Conference
- Colorado State
- Southern Conference
- Georgia Tech, NC State and Tennessee (shared)
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Chattanooga
- Southwest Conference
- Texas A&M
- Virginia Conference
- William & Mary
Small college
- American Rivers Conference
- Northern Iowa
- Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- North Carolina A&T
- Michigan Collegiate Conference
- Eastern Michigan
- North Central Conference
- South Dakota
- Northwest Ohio League
- Toledo
From each program’s Wikipedia article, with the conference’s name that season. Titles come from the articles of today’s FBS and FCS programs, so a title shared with a school outside them lists only one champion.
Consensus All-Americans
- EBennie Oosterbaan, Michigan
- ETom Nash, Georgia
- OTJesse Hibbs, USC
- OTEd Hake, Penn
- OGBill Webster, Yale
- OGClipper Smith, Notre Dame
- CLarry Bettencourt, St. Mary’s
- CJohn Charlesworth, Yale
- QBMorley Drury, USC
- RBGibby Welch, Pittsburgh
- RBRed Cagle, Army
- FBHerb Joesting, Minnesota
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1927 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1927 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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to cross the Cadet goal line in five thrusts from the three yard mark. This was the most heroic defense stand of the game. Twice Clifton ploughed into the mased forwards barely making yard each time Lloyd took turn at tackle with only foot to show for his plunge Then Clifton made the final thrust, only to be piled up in the swirling mass with the goal inches away. The game, brilliant but not as spectacular a pageant as it was a year ago in Chicago, was witnessed by the largest crowd it has ever attracted in the east, as great an assemblage as ever saw. football battle in New York. Secretaries Will bur and Davis, Mayor Jimmy Walker, high officers of both branches of the service mingled with thousands of fans, forming backgrounds that I had their most colorful features in the grey-coaed corps of cadets and the blue-coated brigade of midshipmen. Cheers roared and echoed from one side of the field to the other as the rival admirals and generals of the future We’d for vocal hon6rs. But the cadets had the last cheer The line-ups and summary: Army: Harold, le.; Sprague, It,; Hammack, lg.; Hall, c.; Seeman, rg.; Perry, IT.; Born, re-; Nave, qb.; eagle lhb.; Wilson (captain), RIB; Murrell fb. Navy: Roane le.; Bagdanovitch, It,; Bruke, lg.; Hardin, c., Woerner, rg.; Giese, IT.; Smith, re-; Hannegan (captain), qb.; Lloyd, lhb.; Clifton rhb.; Ransford, fb Score by periods: N@%S@s ........,....................O 0 2 .O.a7- 6 Army ..........,........-.......... 0 0 IA Ola Navy scoring: Touchdown, Roane; point after touchdown, Hannegan drop kick). Safety against MurrelD Army scoring: Touchdowns, Wilson q; points after touchdown, eagle 2 drop kicks. Substitutions; Army: Saunders for Perry, Brertnal for Harbold, Hutchinson for eagle, Elias for Sprague Parson for Hall, Dibb for Hammack Meehan for Nave. Substitutions, Navy: Coffman for Ransford, Parish for Hannegan, Taylor for Sloane, Beans for Taylor Wood for Hardin, Wilson for Giee. Officials: Referee, w. G. Rowell Swarthmore; umpire, A. H. Sharpe Yale; linesman, H. R. Heneage, Dart mouth; field Judge, c. G.. Eckles | Washington and jefferson. ‘Notre Dame: Voedisch, le; Miller, 1t / Smith 1O i0ly rg; Poliskey, rt; Walsh, re; Riley, OBJ Dahman, lib; Flanagan, RIB; Wynne fb Score by periods. Notre Dame ........7 0 o o. Southern California 80 0 0 Oh Notre Dame scoring: Touchdown Dahman Point after touchdown | Dahman. Southern California scoring: Touch. down Saunders. Officials: Referee, Varnell, Chicago umpire, Schommer, Chicago; fielc | judge, Griffin, Iowa; head linesman Eckersall, Chicago. ! In the Trojan locker room after tlnt game, there was considerable discus. sion regarding. the disputed play wher went for Notre Dame touch back, al though some thought it should have been a safety. | Coach Jones said ct wasn’t an official, and what the officials rule stands If Riley had control ofthe ball, it was a safety; il he didn’t have control of it, it was q touchback 1t was a great game. don’t think either team showed any ! strong SllDeriOritV” Walter Eckersall, an umpire who served as lineman today, wrote o fthe disputed play: “Riley of Notre Dame leaped into the air in an effort to catch the pass ed ball. A fraction of second after he caught it he was tackled by a Trojan player and the bali struck the end zone and rolled over the end line A touchback always results when the ball on any incompleted forward pass strikes the ground in the end zone. The officials who we’re on top of. the play ruled that Riley did not have the ball under his control”
Bowls and playoff
Scoreboard| Jan 2, 1928 | Stanford 7, Pittsburgh 6Rose Bowl |