1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets season
| 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets season | |
|---|---|
| Head coach | Charley Moran, Russ Daugherty, Charley Rogers, Ed Weir, and Swede Youngstrom |
| Home field | Frankford Stadium |
| Results | |
| Record | 6–9–3 NFL 9–9–3 overall |
| League place | 7th NFL |
The 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets season was their fourth in the National Football League. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 14–1–2, winning only six league games[1] to finish in seventh place in the league standings.[2]
During the 1927 season the Yellow Jackets played 7 sets of home-and-away back-to-back games — a unique scheduling idiosyncrasy. Always playing the home game first, Frankford was shut out on the back end of 5 of these 7 home-and-away pairings.
Thirteen of the 18 games played by the Yellow Jackets were home at Frankford Stadium.
Schedule
[edit]| Game | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | Venue | Attendance | Recap | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | September 18 | at Atlantic City Shore Roses | W 3–0 | Airport Field | ||||
| 1 | September 24 | Dayton Triangles | L 6–3 | 0–1 | Frankford Stadium | 7,000 | Recap | |
| – | October 1 | All-New Britain | W 21–0 | Frankford Stadium | ||||
| – | October 2 | at All-New Britain | W 22–0 | |||||
| 2 | October 8 | Dayton Triangles | T 0–0 | 0–1–1 | Frankford Stadium | 4,000 | Recap | |
| 3 | October 15 | Buffalo Bisons | W 54–0 | 1–1–1 | Frankford Stadium | 5,000 | Recap | |
| 4 | October 16 | at Buffalo Bisons | W 23–0 | 2–1–1 | Bison Stadium | 1,500 | Recap | |
| 5 | October 22 | New York Giants | L 13–0 | 2–2–1 | Frankford Stadium | 9,000 | Recap | |
| 6 | October 23 | at New York Giants | L 27–0 | 2–3–1 | Polo Grounds | 15,000 | Recap | |
| 7 | October 29 | Providence Steam Roller | L 20–7 | 2–4–1 | Frankford Stadium | 5,000 | Recap | |
| 8 | October 30 | at Providence Steam Roller | L 14–0 | 2–5–1 | Cycledrome | 9,000 | Recap | |
| 9 | November 5 | Pottsville Maroons | W 10–0 | 3–5–1 | Frankford Stadium | 6,000 | Recap | |
| 10 | November 6 | at Pottsville Maroons | L 9–0 | 3–6–1 | Minersville Park | Recap | ||
| 11 | November 12 | Cleveland Bulldogs | W 22–0 | 4–6–1 | Frankford Stadium | 6,000 | Recap | |
| 12 | November 13 | at Cleveland Bulldogs | L 37–0 | 4–7–1 | Luna Park | 5,000 | Recap | |
| 13 | November 19 | Chicago Cardinals | W 12–8 | 5–7–1 | Frankford Stadium | 6,000 | Recap | |
| 14 | November 24 | Green Bay Packers | L 17–9 | 5–8–1 | Frankford Stadium | 9,000 | Recap | |
| 15 | November 26 | Duluth Eskimos | W 6–0 | 6–8–1 | Frankford Stadium | Recap | ||
| 16 | December 3 | Chicago Bears | T 0–0 | 6–8–2 | Frankford Stadium | 4,000 | Recap | |
| 17 | December 4 | at Chicago Bears | L 9–0 | 6–9–2 | Wrigley Field | 2,500 | Recap | |
| 18 | December 10 | New York Yankees | T 6–6 | 6–9–3 | Frankford Stadium | 7,000 | Recap | [3] |
Standings
[edit]| NFL standings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | L | T | PCT | PF | PA | STK | |||
| New York Giants | 11 | 1 | 1 | .917 | 197 | 20 | W9 | ||
| Green Bay Packers | 7 | 2 | 1 | .778 | 113 | 43 | W1 | ||
| Chicago Bears | 9 | 3 | 2 | .750 | 149 | 98 | W2 | ||
| Cleveland Bulldogs | 8 | 4 | 1 | .667 | 209 | 107 | W5 | ||
| Providence Steam Roller | 8 | 5 | 1 | .615 | 105 | 88 | W3 | ||
| New York Yankees | 7 | 8 | 1 | .467 | 142 | 174 | L4 | ||
| Frankford Yellow Jackets | 6 | 9 | 3 | .400 | 152 | 166 | L1 | ||
| Pottsville Maroons | 5 | 8 | 0 | .385 | 80 | 163 | L1 | ||
| Chicago Cardinals | 3 | 7 | 1 | .300 | 69 | 134 | L1 | ||
| Dayton Triangles | 1 | 6 | 1 | .143 | 15 | 57 | L4 | ||
| Duluth Eskimos | 1 | 8 | 0 | .111 | 68 | 134 | L7 | ||
| Buffalo Bisons | 0 | 5 | 0 | .000 | 8 | 123 | L5 | ||
- Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.
Players
[edit]- Carl Davis, end, tackle, guard
- Bill Donohoe, back
- Joey Maxwell, center, end
- Frank McGrath, end
- Dick Moynihan, fullback, blocking back
- Pete Richards, center
- Ned Wilcox, back
References
[edit]- ^ 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets
- ^ Pro Football Archives 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets season
- ^ "Frankford Ties with New York Yankees: Grangemen Tie by Last Period Score in Frigid Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 11, 1927, sports p. 1-2.