1927 Temple Owls football team

The 1927 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach Heinie Miller, the team compiled a 7–1 record.^[1] Fullback Harry J. Jacobs was the team captain.

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1	Blue Ridge (MD)	Temple Field Philadelphia, PA	W 110–0		^[2]
October 8	Juniata	Temple Field Philadelphia, PA	W 58–0	3,000	^[3]
October 15	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 7–47		^[4]
October 22	Gallaudet	Temple Field Philadelphia, PA	W 62–0	6,000	^[5]
October 29	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 7–0		^[6]
November 5	Albright	Temple Field Philadelphia, PA	W 13–0		^[7]
November 12	Washington College	Temple Field Philadelphia, PA	W 75–0	7,000	^[8]
November 19	Bucknell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 19–13	25,000	^[9]

^ "2019 Temple Owls Football Media Guide" (PDF). Temple University. p. 128. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
^ Stan Baumgartner (October 2, 1927). "Cherry and White Deluges Puny Blue Ridge Midgets Under 110-0 Tabulation". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 4S – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Temple Continues Rush, Trips Juniata". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1927. p. 3S – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Dartmouth Hands Temple Walloping". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 16, 1927. pp. 1S, 3S – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Temple Overcomes Gallaudet Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 23, 1927. p. 6S – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Brown Outgains Temple But I Beaten, 7 To 0". The Hartford Courant. October 30, 1927. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Temple Winner To Gain Sweet Revenge". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 6, 1927. p. 4S – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Temple Wallops Weak Washington". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 13, 1927. p. 3S – via Newspapers.com.
^ Stan Baumgartner (November 20, 1927). "Temple Turns Back Bisons By Great Aerial Offense". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.