1927 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1927 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Jesse Hawley, the Indians compiled a 7–1 record. Robert MacPhail was the team captain.^[1]

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

Myles Lane was the team's leading scorer, with 125 points, from 18 touchdowns and 17 kicked extra points.^[2]

Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Norwich	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 47–0		^[1]
October 1	Hobart	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 46–0		^[1]
October 8	Allegheny	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 38–7		^[1]
October 15	Temple	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 47–7		^[1]
October 22	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 30–6	55,000	^[3]
October 29	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–19	58,000	^[4]
November 5	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 19–7	20,000	^[5]
November 12	Cornell	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	W 53–7		^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Season-by-Season Results: 1881-1939". Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^ "Annual Scoring Leaders (Since 1925)". Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^ Vidmer, Richards (October 23, 1927). "Dartmouth's Runs Beat Harvard, 30-6". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ Danzig, Allison (October 30, 1927). "Yale's Fast Attack Upsets Dartmouth". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ Kelley, Robert F. (November 6, 1927). "Dartmouth Routs Brown Eleven, 19-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S2.