1927 Lafayette Leopards football team

The 1927 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Herb McCracken, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record.^[1] Harold Cothran and William Atkinson were the team captains.^[2] The team played its home games at Fisher Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.

1927 Lafayette Leopards football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3–1
Head coach	Herb McCracken (4th season)
Captains	Harold Cothran William Atkinson
Home stadium	Fisher Field
Seasons ← 1926 1928 →

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Schuylkill	Fisher Field Easton, PA	W 39–13
October 1	Muhlenberg	Fisher Field Easton, PA	W 38–7
October 8	Rutgers	Fisher Field Easton, PA	W 56–0		[3]
October 15	at West Virginia	Mountaineer Field Morgantown, WV	T 7–7		[4]
October 22	Washington & Jefferson	Fisher Field Easton, PA	L 0–14	18,000	[5]
October 29	at Penn State	New Beaver Field State College, PA	L 6–40	11,000
November 5	at Georgetown	Griffith Stadium Washington, DC	L 2–27
November 12	Susquehanna	Fisher Field Easton, PA	W 73–6
November 19	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA (rivalry)	W 43–0