1927 Penn Quakers football team

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 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Lou Young, the Quakers compiled a 6–4 record, shut out five of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 167 to 78.^[1] The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 8–0
October 1	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 33–0
October 8	Brown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 14–6
October 15	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–20	60,000
October 22	at Chicago	Stagg Field Chicago, IL	L 7–13	45,000	^[2]
October 29	Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 6–12
November 5	Harvard	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 24–0
November 12	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–0
November 24	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 35–0
December 31	at California	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	L 13–27

^ "1927 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
^ Don Maxwell (October 23, 1927). "Maroon Passes and Smashes Bring 13 to 7 Win Over Penn". Chicago Tribune. pp. II-1, II-2 – via Newspapers.com.