1927 Tufts Jumbos football team

1927 Tufts Jumbos football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
CaptainMelvin Bowker
Home stadiumTufts Oval
Seasons
← 1926
1928 →
1927 Eastern college football independents records
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

The 1927 Tufts Jumbos football team was an American football team that represented Tufts University of Somerville, Massachusetts, as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their second year under head coach Arthur Sampson, the Jumbos compiled a perfect 8–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 218 to 19. On defense, they shut out five of eight opponents and gave up an average of only 2.4 points per game.[1] Tufts was the only undefeated and untied team in the East.[2]

Quarterback Fred "Fish" Ellis led the team in scoring with 80 points. Ellis was also rated as "a great punter" and a runner who "in the open field has few equals."[2] Ellis later served as the head coach of Tufts' football team from 1946 to 1953.

Tufts has been playing college football since 1875. The 1927 team was one of only three in Tufts football history to complete a perfect season. The other two were the 1934 and 1979 Tufts football teams.[3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 1Lowell Textile
W 40–0[4]
October 8Bates
  • Tufts Oval
  • Medford, MA
W 28–0[5]
October 15Middlebury
  • Tufts Oval
  • Medford, MA
W 16–7[6]
October 22at Vermont
W 22–0[7]
October 292:00 p.m.Boston University
  • Tufts Oval
  • Medford, MA
W 9–6[8][9]
November 52:00 p.m.at New Hampshire
W 39–0[10][11]
November 12Bowdoin
  • Tufts Oval
  • Medford, MA
W 32–0[12]
November 19at Massachusetts
W 32–6[13]

Players

Eugene Toby
Fred "Fish" Ellis

References

  1. ^ "1927 - Tufts (MA)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Lane, Ellis and Fitzgerald Greater Boston Boys, Among Outstanding Stars of 1927". The Boston Globe. November 29, 1927. p. 23 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Tufts (MA) Records by Year". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  4. ^ "Tufts Opens Today With Lowell Team". The Boston Globe. October 1, 1927. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Tufts Subdues Bates Bobcats". Bangor Daily News. October 10, 1927. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Middlebury Loses To Tufts 16-7". The Burlington Free Press and Times. October 17, 1927. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Vermont Team Gets Busy for Norwich Game". Burlington Daily News. October 24, 1927. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Tufts and Terriers in Shape for Hard Game". The Boston Globe. October 29, 1927. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Tufts Eleven Out to Avenge Last Year's Defeat by B. U. in Saturday's Clash: Terriers Loom As Stiff Foe". The Boston Globe. October 27, 1927. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "New Hampshire Depends On Massachusetts Boys Today". The Boston Globe. November 5, 1927. p. 18. Retrieved February 2, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Tufts Finds Little Trouble Against New Hampshire". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 6, 1927. p. 48. Retrieved February 4, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Tufts Smothers Bowdoin Team, 32-0". Daily Kennebec Journal. November 14, 1927. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Tufts Favorites in Tilt With Aggies: Undefeated Eleven Out to Keep Slate Clean". The Boston Globe. November 19, 1927. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ a b c d "Tufts To Polish Up Attack This Week". The Boston Globe. October 24, 1927. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Tufts Preparing for Bowdoin". The Boston Globe. November 8, 1927. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Tufts Loses Tobey for Rest of Year: Star Center Ill at Home with Pneumonia". The Boston Globe. November 11, 1927. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.