1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets season

National Football League team season

1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets season

Head coach| Charley Moran, Russ Daugherty, Charley Rogers, Ed Weir, and Swede Youngstrom
Home stadium| Frankford Stadium
Results
Record| 6–9–3 NFL
9–9–3 overall
League place| 7th NFL

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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

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–  | 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

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| 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

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* 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

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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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* Defunct National Football League club 1924–1931
* Formerly the Frankford Athletic Association (1899–1909, 1912–1923) and the Loyola Athletic Club (1909–1912)
* Formed in 1899
* Based in Frankford, Philadelphia

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Championships|

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Stadia|

* Wistar Field
* Brown's Field
* Frankford Stadium

Temporary stadiums due to a fire at Frankford Stadium in 1931:|

* Philadelphia Municipal Stadium (September 26, October 2)
Philadelphia Ball Park (October 10, October 31)

Lore|

* 1925 NFL Championship controversy
* Philadelphia Eagles

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* Berryman
* Chamberlin
* Weir
* Behman
* Moran
* Gibson

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