1927 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1927 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 157 to 32. The team was rated as one of the greatest to ever represent Yale. The team included two consensus All-Americans (John Charlesworth and Bill Webster) and was retroactively recognized by the Boand System and College Football Researchers Association as the national champion for 1927. The team was ranked No. 5 in the nation in the Dickinson System ratings released in December 1927.

1927 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Boand System, CFRA)
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
  • Tad Jones (10th season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainBill Webster
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1927 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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
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