1927 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

The 1927 Pittsburgh Panthers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pittsburgh as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Jock Sutherland, the team compiled an 8–1–1 record, shut out seven of its ten opponents, suffered it sole loss to Stanford by a 7–6 score in the 1928 Rose Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 289 to 27.[1][2] The team played its nine home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh.

1927 Pittsburgh Panthers football
Rose Bowl, L 6–7 vs. Stanford
ConferenceIndependent
1927 record8–1–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainGibby Welch
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
1927 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Tufts      8 0 0
Army      9 1 0
Pittsburgh      8 1 1
Temple      7 1 0
Yale      7 1 0
NYU      7 1 2
Princeton      6 1 0
Villanova      6 1 0
Penn State      6 2 1
Carnegie Tech      5 2 1
Columbia      5 2 2
Bucknell      6 3 1
Colgate      4 2 3
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
Drexel      3 5 1
Fordham      3 5 0
Brown      3 6 1
Franklin & Marshall      1 7 1
Lehigh      1 7 1

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24ThielW 42–0
October 1Grove City
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 33–0
October 8West Virginia
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
W 40–0
October 15at DrakeW 32–0
October 22Carnegie Tech
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 23–7
October 29Allegheny
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 62–0
November 5Washington & Jefferson
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
T 0–0
November 12Nebraska
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 21–13
November 24Penn State
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
W 30–0
January 2, 1928vs. StanfordL 6–758,000[3]

References

  1. "Record Book Pitt Football 2005" (PDF). University of Pittsburgh. 2005. p. 163. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  2. "1927 Pitt Panthers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  3. "Cards Win For West: Pitt Vanquished By 7-6 Score". Los Angeles Times. January 3, 1928. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
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