1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets season

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
	← 1926; Frankford Yellow Jackets; 1928 →;

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

Game	Date	Opponent	Result	Record	Venue	Attendance	Sources
–	September 18	at Atlantic City Roses	W 3–0
1	September 24	Dayton Triangles	L 6–3	0–1	Frankford Stadium
–	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
3	October 15	Buffalo Bisons	W 54–0	1–1–1	Frankford Stadium
4	October 16	at Buffalo Bisons	W 23–0	2–1–1
5	October 22	New York Giants	L 13–0	2–2–1	Frankford Stadium
6	October 23	at New York Giants	L 27–0	2–3–1
7	October 29	Providence Steam Roller	L 20–7	2–4–1	Frankford Stadium
8	October 30	at Providence Steam Roller	L 14–0	2–5–1
9	November 5	Pottsville Maroons	W 10–0	3–5–1	Frankford Stadium
10	November 6	at Pottsville Maroons	L 9–0	3–6–1
11	November 12	Cleveland Bulldogs	W 22–0	4–6–1	Frankford Stadium
12	November 13	at Cleveland Bulldogs	L 37–0	4–7–1
13	November 19	Chicago Cardinals	W 12–8	5–7–1	Frankford Stadium
14	November 24	Green Bay Packers	L 17–9	5–8–1	Frankford Stadium
15	November 26	Duluth Eskimos	W 6–0	6–8–1	Frankford Stadium
16	December 3	Chicago Bears	T 0–0	6–8–2	Frankford Stadium
17	December 4	at Chicago Bears	L 9–0	6–9–2
18	December 10	New York Yankees	T 6–6	6–9–3	Frankford Stadium	7,000	^[3]

Standings

NFL standings
view talk edit	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

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

^ 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.

[1] 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets

[2] Pro Football Archives 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets season

[3] "Frankford Ties with New York Yankees: Grangemen Tie by Last Period Score in Frigid Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 11, 1927, sports p. 1-2.

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