Jump to content

1927 Florida Gators football team: Difference between revisions

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Undid revision 672064152 by MisterCake; restore redirect: there is no reason for these single-season split of Florida Gators decade articles
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Infobox NCAA team season
#REDIRECT [[Florida Gators football, 1920–29#1927]]
| Year = 1927
| Team = Florida Gators
| Conference = Southern Conference
| ShortConference = SoCon
| Record = 7–3
| ConfRecord = 5–2 6th
| HeadCoach = [[Harold Sebring]]
| OffCoach =
| DefCoach =
| OScheme =
| DScheme =
| Captain = [[Bill Middlekauff]]
| StadiumArena = [[Ben Hill Griffin Stadium#Stadium history|Fleming Field]]
}}
{{1927 Southern Conference football standings}}
The '''1927 Florida Gators football team''' represented the [[University of Florida]] during the [[1927 college football season]]. This was [[Harold Sebring|Tom Sebring]]'s third and last season as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. After suffering an 0–12 upset loss at the hands of the [[Davidson College#Student life|Davidson College Wildcats]], the Gators rallied to defeat the [[Auburn Tigers football|Auburn Tigers]] 33–6 in Auburn, Alabama (for the first time, ending a six-game losing streak) and to upset coach [[Wallace Wade]]'s [[1927 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]] 13–6 in Montgomery, Alabama. Sebring's 1927 Florida Gators finished 7–3 overall,<ref name=ufmediaguide/> and 5–2 in the [[Southern Conference]], placing sixth of twenty-two teams in the conference standings.<ref name=soconrecords/> In no two seasons had Florida won as many conference contests as in 1927. Sebring graduated from the university's [[Levin College of Law|College of Law]] in 1928, and later became a circuit court judge and chief justice of the [[Florida Supreme Court]]. Many sports commentators believe that the team that Sebring recruited for [[1928 Florida Gators football team|1928]] would become the greatest Gators football squad until at least the [[Florida Gators football, 1960–1969|1960s]].

The loss to Davidson featured captain Frank Oosterhoudt, who was later declared ineligible, and replaced at captain by [[Bill Middlekauff]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1787&dat=19271111&id=xJUcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I2QEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4396,6235288|title=Crimson Tide Big Favorite Over Florida|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|date=November 11, 1927|accessdate=March 15, 2015|via=[[Google news]]}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newspapers.com/clip/1996051//|work=The Ogden Standard-Examiner|title=Grid Star Gets Good Study Mars|date=November 20, 1927|page=17|accessdate=March 15, 2015|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> With Middlekauff at captain, the Gators suffered just two further losses: to conference co-champions [[1927 NC State Wolfpack football team|NC State]]; and to Georgia's "[[1927 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Dream and Wonder team]]". NC State was led by Hall of Famer and Gainesville native [[Jack McDowall]].

== Schedule and results ==

{{CFB Schedule Start|time=no|rank=no|tv=no|attend=no}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 9–24–1927
| time = no
| w/l = w
| nonconf = yes
| rank = no
| opponent = [[Florida Southern College#Athletics|Florida Southern]]
| site_stadium = [[Ben Hill Griffin Stadium#University Athletic Field / Fleming Field|Fleming Field]]
| site_cityst = [[Gainesville, Florida]]
| tv = no
| score = 26–7
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 10–1–1927
| time = no
| w/l = l
| nonconf = yes
| rank = no
| opponent = [[Davidson College#Student life|Davidson]]
| site_stadium = Fleming Field
| site_cityst = Gainesville, Florida
| tv = no
| score = 0–12
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 10–8–1927
| time = no
| w/l = w
| nonconf =
| rank = no
| opponent = [[Auburn Tigers football|Auburn]]
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = [[Auburn, Alabama]]
| tv = no
| score = 33–6
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 10–15–1927
| time = no
| w/l = w
| nonconf =
| rank = no
| opponent = [[Kentucky Wildcats football|Kentucky]]
| site_stadium = [[J. P. Small Memorial Stadium|Barrs Field]]
| site_cityst = [[Jacksonville, Florida]]
| tv = no
| score = 27–6
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 10–23–1927
| time = no
| w/l = l
| nonconf =
| rank = no
| opponent = [[1927 NC State Wolfpack football team|North Carolina State]]
| site_stadium = [[Plant Field]]
| site_cityst = [[Tampa, Florida]]
| tv = no
| score = 6–12
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 10–30–1927
| time = no
| w/l = w
| nonconf = yes
| rank = no
| opponent = [[Mercer University#Athletics|Mercer]]
| site_stadium = Fleming Field
| site_cityst = Gainesville, Florida
| gamename = [[Homecoming|HC]]
| tv = no
| score = 32–6
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 11–6–1927
| time = no
| w/l = l
| nonconf =
| rank = no
| opponent = [[1927 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]]
| site_stadium = Barrs Field
| site_cityst = Jacksonville, Florida
| tv = no
| score = 0–28
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 11–12–1927
| time = no
| w/l = w
| nonconf =
| rank = no
| opponent = [[1927 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
| site_stadium = [[Cramton Bowl]]
| site_cityst = [[Montgomery, Alabama]]
| tv = no
| score = 13–6
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 11–24–1927
| time = no
| w/l = w
| nonconf =
| rank = no
| opponent = [[Washington & Lee University#Athletics|Washington & Lee]]
| site_stadium = Barrs Field
| site_cityst = Jacksonville, Florida
| tv = no
| score = 20–7
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule Entry
| date = 12–3–1927
| time = no
| w/l = w
| nonconf =
| rank = no
| opponent = [[Maryland Terrapins football|Maryland]]
| site_stadium = Barrs Field
| site_cityst = Jacksonville, Florida
| tv = no
| score = 7–6
| attend =
}}
{{CFB Schedule End|rank=no|poll=no|hc=no}}
Primary source: ''2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide''.<ref name=ufmediaguide/>
{{clear}}
==Season summary==
===Week 2: Davidson===
[[Rainey Cawthon]], in his first year on the varsity and with a broken wrist, played against Davidson.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=brUVAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA71#v=onepage&q&f=false|volume=16|number=2|journal=The Rattle of Theta Chi|page=71|title=Tau Banquets Sixteen Pledges}}</ref>
===Week 5: North Carolina State===
{{AFB game box start
| Title = '''Week 5: North Carolina State at Florida'''
| Visitor = '''NC State'''
| Host = Florida
| V1 = 0| V2 = 0| V3 = 0| V4 =12
| H1 = 0| H2 = 0| H3 = 0| H4 =6
| Date =October 27, 1927
| Location = [[Plant Field]]<br>[[Tampa, FL]]
| StartTime =
| ElapsedTime =
| Attendance =
| Weather =
| Referee = Springer (Penn)
}}
{{AFB game box end}}
In the fifth week of play, the Gators faced the [[1927 NC State Wolfpack football team|North Carolina State Wolfpack]] on [[Plant Field]] in [[Tampa]], losing 12&ndash;6. The Wolfpack played conservatively in the beginning, and neither team scored until the final period. A drive brought the Wolfpack to the 3-yard line, the feature play of which was a 30-yard pass from their Hall of Fame captain, Gainesville native [[Jack McDowall]] to Childress. A pass from Mcdowall to Frank Goodwin got the score.<ref name=techmcdowall>{{cite news|author=T. A. Vernon|work=The Technician|volume=8|number=6|date=October 28, 1927|page=3|url=http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/technician-v8n6-1927-10-28/pages/technician-v8n6-1927-10-28_0003|title=State Wolves Invade Florida And Win 12-6}}</ref> The Gators then began passing desperately in an attempt to win. A pass bounced off the hands of a Florida back and into McDowall's, who returned the ball 75 yards for the deciding score.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P11LAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=1928+gators|page=239|author=[[Fuzzy Woodruff]]|title=A History of Southern Football, 1890-1928}}</ref> On the ensuing kickoff, Gator back Tommy Owens ran it back for an 88-yard touchdown.<ref name=techmcdowall/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newspapers.com/clip/3155058/the_bee/|work=The Bee|title=Statistics Indicate Any Conference Team Able To Beat Leaders|date=October 23, 1927|page=9|accessdate=September 4, 2015|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>

Since McDowall had been turned down by his native University of Florida, legend has it just afterwards he mailed Sebring the game ball.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ki2f9GJ298</ref>

The starting lineup for the Gators against NC State: Van Sickel (left end), Bryan (left tackle), Allen (left guard), Kirschner (center), Reeves (right guard), Clemons (right tackle), Stanley (right end), Bowyer (quarterback), Beck (left halfback), Yancey (right halfback), Middlekauff (fullback).<ref name=techmcdowall/>
===Week 6: Mercer===
Cawthon completed a 53-yard pass against [[Mercer Bears football|Mercer]].
===Week 7: Georgia===
Quarterback [[Goof Bowyer]] broke his leg in the game against Georgia.<ref name=bowy>{{cite news|work=St. Petersburg Times|title=Ernest Bowyer Given Highest Florida Honor|page=3|author=Frank S. Wright|date=December 8, 1927}}</ref>
===Postseason===
Bowyer was elected captain for next year.<ref name=bowy/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Florida Gators football navbox}}

Revision as of 06:44, 4 September 2015

{{{year}}} [[{{{team}}} football]]
1927 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Georgia Tech + 7 – 0 – 1 8 – 1 – 1
Tennessee + 5 – 0 – 1 8 – 0 – 1
NC State + 4 – 0 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
Vanderbilt 5 – 0 – 2 8 – 1 – 2
No. 8 Georgia 6 – 1 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
Florida 5 – 2 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Ole Miss 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 3 – 1
Virginia 4 – 4 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Clemson 2 – 2 – 0 5 – 3 – 1
Alabama 3 – 4 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
LSU 2 – 3 – 1 4 – 4 – 1
Mississippi A&M 2 – 3 – 0 5 – 3 – 0
Washington and Lee 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 4 – 1
VPI 2 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Maryland 3 – 5 – 0 4 – 7 – 0
South Carolina 2 – 4 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
VMI 2 – 4 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Tulane 2 – 5 – 1 2 – 5 – 1
North Carolina 2 – 5 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Sewanee 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
Kentucky 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 6 – 1
Auburn 0 – 6 – 1 0 – 7 – 2
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1927 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1927 college football season. This was Tom Sebring's third and last season as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. After suffering an 0–12 upset loss at the hands of the Davidson College Wildcats, the Gators rallied to defeat the Auburn Tigers 33–6 in Auburn, Alabama (for the first time, ending a six-game losing streak) and to upset coach Wallace Wade's Alabama 13–6 in Montgomery, Alabama. Sebring's 1927 Florida Gators finished 7–3 overall,[1] and 5–2 in the Southern Conference, placing sixth of twenty-two teams in the conference standings.[2] In no two seasons had Florida won as many conference contests as in 1927. Sebring graduated from the university's College of Law in 1928, and later became a circuit court judge and chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Many sports commentators believe that the team that Sebring recruited for 1928 would become the greatest Gators football squad until at least the 1960s.

The loss to Davidson featured captain Frank Oosterhoudt, who was later declared ineligible, and replaced at captain by Bill Middlekauff.[3][4] With Middlekauff at captain, the Gators suffered just two further losses: to conference co-champions NC State; and to Georgia's "Dream and Wonder team". NC State was led by Hall of Famer and Gainesville native Jack McDowall.

Schedule and results

9–24–1927Florida Southern*

W 26–7 10–1–1927Davidson*

  • Fleming Field
  • Gainesville, Florida

L 0–12 10–8–1927AuburnAuburn, AlabamaW 33–6 10–15–1927Kentucky

W 27–6 10–23–1927North Carolina State

L 6–12 10–30–1927Mercer*

  • Fleming Field
  • Gainesville, Florida (HC)

W 32–6 11–6–1927Georgia

  • Barrs Field
  • Jacksonville, Florida

L 0–28 11–12–1927Alabama

W 13–6 11–24–1927Washington & Lee

  • Barrs Field
  • Jacksonville, Florida

W 20–7 12–3–1927Maryland

  • Barrs Field
  • Jacksonville, Florida

W 7–6

Template:CFB Schedule End Primary source: 2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide.[1]

Season summary

Week 2: Davidson

Rainey Cawthon, in his first year on the varsity and with a broken wrist, played against Davidson.[5]

Week 5: North Carolina State

Week 5: North Carolina State at Florida
1 234Total
• NC State 0 0012 12
Florida 0 006 6

In the fifth week of play, the Gators faced the North Carolina State Wolfpack on Plant Field in Tampa, losing 12–6. The Wolfpack played conservatively in the beginning, and neither team scored until the final period. A drive brought the Wolfpack to the 3-yard line, the feature play of which was a 30-yard pass from their Hall of Fame captain, Gainesville native Jack McDowall to Childress. A pass from Mcdowall to Frank Goodwin got the score.[6] The Gators then began passing desperately in an attempt to win. A pass bounced off the hands of a Florida back and into McDowall's, who returned the ball 75 yards for the deciding score.[7] On the ensuing kickoff, Gator back Tommy Owens ran it back for an 88-yard touchdown.[6][8]

Since McDowall had been turned down by his native University of Florida, legend has it just afterwards he mailed Sebring the game ball.[9]

The starting lineup for the Gators against NC State: Van Sickel (left end), Bryan (left tackle), Allen (left guard), Kirschner (center), Reeves (right guard), Clemons (right tackle), Stanley (right end), Bowyer (quarterback), Beck (left halfback), Yancey (right halfback), Middlekauff (fullback).[6]

Week 6: Mercer

Cawthon completed a 53-yard pass against Mercer.

Week 7: Georgia

Quarterback Goof Bowyer broke his leg in the game against Georgia.[10]

Postseason

Bowyer was elected captain for next year.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference ufmediaguide was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference soconrecords was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Crimson Tide Big Favorite Over Florida". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. November 11, 1927. Retrieved March 15, 2015 – via Google news. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Grid Star Gets Good Study Mars". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. November 20, 1927. p. 17. Retrieved March 15, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Tau Banquets Sixteen Pledges". The Rattle of Theta Chi. 16 (2): 71.
  6. ^ a b c T. A. Vernon (October 28, 1927). "State Wolves Invade Florida And Win 12-6". The Technician. Vol. 8, no. 6. p. 3.
  7. ^ Fuzzy Woodruff. A History of Southern Football, 1890-1928. p. 239.
  8. ^ "Statistics Indicate Any Conference Team Able To Beat Leaders". The Bee. October 23, 1927. p. 9. Retrieved September 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  9. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ki2f9GJ298
  10. ^ a b Frank S. Wright (December 8, 1927). "Ernest Bowyer Given Highest Florida Honor". St. Petersburg Times. p. 3.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1927_Florida_Gators_football_team&oldid=679383751"