1927 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Endorsements
Dever was endorsed by prominent reformers campaigning for "Dever and Decency" on his behalf, including Charles Edward Merriam, Harriet Vittum, Harold L. Ickes, and Jane Addams. The Ministerial Association of Chicago also endorsed Dever, calling him "the best mayor Chicago ever had ... [ and] as loyal as a Catholic as he is [a] citizen". He was backed by businessmen Sewell Avery, Julius Rosenwald, and W. A. Wieboldt, as well as university presidents Max Mason and Walter Dill Scott and attorney Orville James Taylor.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Endorsements
He was also backed by socialites Louise deKoven Bowen and Edward Ryerson Jr, as well as builder Potter Palmer and Donald Richberg. School superintendent William McAndrew distributed a latter to school principals urging for people to vote Dever. Four of the city's daily newspapers backed Dever, as did the city's largest Polish, Jewish, and Italian newspapers.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Endorsements
Robertson was supported by the incumbent 43rd ward alderman Arthur F. Albert, whose opponent Titus Haffa endorsed Thompson. Henry F. Batterman, Lundin's 41st ward committeeman, supported Robertson before crossing over to Thompson.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Result
Thompson won the election with more than 51 percent of votes cast, carrying 28 of the city's 50 wards. Dever's campaign ultimately failed to achieve momentum; Thompson had dominated the discourse early on and left Dever's supporters struggling to react to Thompson's campaign and ultimately failing to fully promote Dever's own message.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Result
Dever saw a significant decline in support from the Democratic party's stronghold, the city's white, working-class, inner-city wards. His support improved in traditionally Republican White Anglo-Saxon Protestant precincts along Chicago's lakeshore. Thompson carried the black vote by more than 10 to 1, taking the three wards of Chicago's "black belt" by more than 59,000 votes. According to one study, Thompson received 42.20 percent of the Polish-American vote, Dever 54.07 percent and Robertson 3.73 percent; other sources suggest Thompson may have carried as much as 46 percent of the Polish-American vote.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Result
By some accounts, Thompson carried 41 percent of the Czech-American vote and 43 percent of the Lithuanian-American vote, groups that typically firmly supported Democrats. He also won more than 60 percent of the German-American and Swedish-American votes, as well as the Italian-American and Jewish votes. Edward Mazur divided his study of the Jewish vote into two groups, the European/German Jews and the Eastern European Jews. He found that Eastern European Jewish precincts were carried by Thompson 55 to 41 percent, while the German Jewish precincts were carried by Dever 62 to 35 percent.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, Aftermath
The results of the election damaged Chicago's reputation nationally. Will Rogers remarked that "They was trying to beat Bill [Thompson] with the Better Element vote. The trouble with Chicago is that there ain't much Better Element." The St. Louis Star declared that "Chicago is still a good deal of a Wild West town, where a soapbox showman extracting white rabbits from a gentleman's plug hat still gets a better hearing than a man in a sober suit talking business." The campaign was such that philosopher Will Durant wondered whether democracy was dead.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, Aftermath
Many experts concluded that Thompson had won because of his skilled campaigning, providing entertainment while Dever called for virtue. Elmer Davis of Harper's Magazine mused that the mystery was not that Dever lost but that he had received 430,000 votes. George Schottenhamel, writing in 1952 for the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, argued that Dever "would have been easy opposition for any candidate" running "on a campaign of 'Dever and Decency' despite four years of rampant crime in Chicago".


1927 Chicago mayoral election, Aftermath
Nobody had expected Robertson to win. The Chicago Tribune noted that he had finished a "poor third" and polled "only" 51,209 votes; The Daily Independent of Murphysboro considered him to have finished at a "hopeless third". Koop's performance of two votes was picked up by the Associated Press and used by an editorial of the Ottawa Citizen as evidence that the threat of socialism was overblown.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, Aftermath
The election was marked by an unusually low level of crime: only one ballot box theft and a negligible amount of violence. Some claimed that this was due to Capone using his men to guard polling stations and ensure votes for Thompson, but contemporary accounts make no mention of gang activity and police were dispatched to guard polling stations, aided by City Hall employees. Police attributed the quiet at least in part to the death of Drucci, who had allegedly raided the downtown offices of the Dever-supporting 42nd Ward alderman Dorsey Crowe the day before the election and was killed by police upon his arrest later that night.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, Aftermath
At his inaugural address, Thompson reiterated his pledge to oust Superintendent McAndrew. In August 1927, the Chicago Board of Education, now under Thompson's influence after he appointed a number new members, voted to charge McAndrew with insubordination and lack of patriotism, suspending him pending a trial held by the board. The trial would last months, and the Chicago Board of Education would find McAndrew guilty. The Cook County Superior Court would later void this decision.


1927 Chicago mayoral election, Aftermath
Thompson would lose to Democrat Anton Cermak in the 1931 Chicago mayoral election as his public approval fell victim to continuing crime and the Great Depression. Historians generally consider him one of the most unethical mayors in American history, in large part due to his alliance with Capone. Dever would serve as the vice president of a bank and died of pancreatic cancer in 1929. Robertson was re-elected as the West Park President two days after the election, and died in 1931 of heart disease. To date, this is the last mayoral election in Chicago won by a Republican candidate.


1927 Chico State Wildcats football team
The 1927 Chico State Wildcats football team represented Chico State Teachers College during the 1927 college football season. Chico State competed in the California Coast Conference (CCC) in 1927. They played home games at College Field in Chico, California.


1927 Chico State Wildcats football team
The 1927 Wildcats were led by fifth-year head coach Art Acker. Chico State finished the regular season undefeated in conference, with an overall record of six wins and one loss (6–1, 5–0 CCC). They faced Sacramento Junior College in the CCC championship game, losing 0–7. That brought their final record to six wins and two losses (6–2, 5–1 CCC). The Wildcats outscored their opponents 164–14 for the season, which included six shutouts.


1927 Chilean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Chile on 22 May 1927, following the resignation of President Emiliano Figueroa. The result was a victory for Interior Minister Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who ran as an independent and received 98% of the vote.


1927 Chilean presidential election, Electoral system
The election was held using the absolute majority system, under which a candidate had to receive over 50% of the popular vote to be elected. If no candidate received over 50% of the vote, both houses of the National Congress would come together to vote on the two candidates who received the most votes.


1927 Cincinnati Bearcats football team
The 1927 Cincinnati Bearcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as a member of the Buckeye Athletic Association (BAA) and the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1927 college football season. In their first season under head coach George Babcock, the Bearcats compiled a 2–5–2 record.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season
The 1927 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fifth in the National League with a record of 75–78, 18½ games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Off-season
On February 9, 1927, the Reds traded long time outfielder Edd Roush to the New York Giants in exchange for infielder High Pockets Kelly. Roush, who was acquired by the Reds from the Giants in 1916, hit .336 with 46 HR and 722 RBI while adding 197 stolen bases in 1298 games with Cincinnati from 1916-1926. Kelly, who had played with the Giants since 1915, led the National League in home runs in 1921, and was the league leader in RBI in 1920 and 1924. In 1136 games with New York, Kelly batted .301 with 123 HR and 762 RBI.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Off-season
Long-time owner Garry Herrmann, who bought the Reds in 1902, sold the team to C. J. McDiarmid. Under Hermann's ownership, the Reds won the 1919 World Series.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
The Reds got off to a very poor start in 1927, going 11-25 in their first 36 games and quickly found themselves in last place in the National League. On July 12, the Reds remained in the National League cellar with a 28-50 through their first 78 games, however, a 21-6 streak in their next 27 games saw the club vault into fifth place in the league with a 49-56 record.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
Cincinnati got within one game of a .500 record, as on September 24, following a 1-0 win over the Brooklyn Robins, the Reds had a 72-73 record. That would be the closest the team would get to .500, as they finished the season with a 75-78 record, finishing 18.5 games behind the NL Pennant winning Pittsburgh Pirates.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
This marked the first season since 1921 that the Reds finished with a losing record. The 75 wins was the fewest by Cincinnati since they finished 70-83 in 1921.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
Catcher Bubbles Hargrave led Cincinnati with a .308 batting average, and had 35 RBI in 102 games. Outfielder Curt Walker batted .292 with a team high six home runs and 80 RBI in 30 games. Rookie outfielder Ethan Allen hit .295 with two home runs and 20 RBI, and had a team high 12 stolen bases in 111 games. High Pockets Kelly suffered through an injury plagued season, hitting .270 with five home runs and 21 RBI in 61 games.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season
Red Lucas led the Reds pitching staff, as he finished with an 18-11 record, leading the team in wins, as well as a team high 239.2 innings in 37 games. Carl Mays had a solid season, earning a 15-12 record with a 3.51 ERA and a team high 121 strikeouts in 44 games. Pete Donohue struggled to a 6-16 record with a 4.11 ERA in 33 games after two consecutive 20+ win seasons.


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1927 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1927 Clemson Tigers football team
The 1927 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson College during the 1927 Southern Conference football season.


1927 Cleveland Bulldogs season
The 1927 Cleveland Bulldogs season was their fourth season in the league. The team improved on their previous output of 5–8–1, winning eight games. They finished fourth in the league. The team relocated to Detroit, Michigan after the season, playing one season as the Detroit Wolverines in 1928.


1927 Cleveland Bulldogs season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1927 Cleveland Indians season
The 1927 Cleveland Indians season was a season in American baseball. The team finished sixth in the American League with a record of 66–87, 43½ games behind the New York Yankees.


1927 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1927 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1927 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1927 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1927 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1927 Coe Kohawks football team
The 1927 Coe Kohawks football team represented Coe College during the 1923 college football season.


1927 Colgate football team
The 1927 Colgate football team represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In it second season under head coach George Hauser, Colgate compiled a 4–2–3 record and outscored opponents by  a total of 99 to 33.


1927 College Basketball All-Southern Team
The 1927 College Basketball All-Southern Team consisted of basketball players from the South chosen at their respective positions.


1927 College Football All-America Team
The 1927 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1927.


1927 College Football All-America Team
The seven selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1927 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice with cooperation from ten coaches, (2) the Associated Press, (3) the United Press, selected based on consensus among UP newspapers throughout the country and prominent football coaches, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and (7) the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).


1927 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans
Following the death of Walter Camp in 1925, there was a proliferation of All-American teams in the late 1920s. For the year 1927, the NCAA recognizes seven published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received. Michigan end Bennie Oosterbaan and Pittsburgh halfback Gibby Welch were the only players to be unanimously selected by all seven selectors as first-team All-Americans.


1927 College Football All-Southern Team
The 1927 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in for the 1927 Southern Conference football season.


1927 College Football All-Southern Team, Composite overview
Bill Spears received the most selections from the Associated Press composite. Sixty four votes in all were cast.


1927 College Football All-Southern Team, Key
AP = composite selected by the Associated Press. It had a first and second team.


1927 College Football All-Southern Team, Key
UP = composite selected by the United Press. It had a first and second team. Those who received selections despite missing first or second team are appended with a C.


1927 College Football All-Southern Team, Key
C = composite selected by six sporting editors: Blinkey Horn of the Nashville Tennessean, Ralph McGill of the Nashville Banner, Zipp Newman of the Birmingham News, Bib Phillips of the Birmingham Age-Herald, Morgan Blake of the Atlanta Journal, and Ed Danforth of the Atlanta Georgian.


1927 College Football All-Southern Team, Key
CP = selected by football fans of the South through Central Press newspapers.


1927 College Football All-Southern Team, Key
WMA = selected by coaches Wallace Wade of Alabama, Dan McGugin of Vanderbilt, and William Alexander of Georgia Tech, for a roster spot on a team set to face an All-Pacific Coast squad in Los Angeles on Christmas Day. It also include reserves.


1927 College Football All-Southern Team, Key
EB = selected by Miss Emily Boyd, sports editor of the Griffin Daily News, the only woman sports editor in the south.


1927 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1927 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1927 college football season. In their 15th season under head coach Harry W. Hughes, the Aggies compiled a 7–1 record, won the RMC championship, and outscored all opponents by a total of 176 to 26.


1927 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team
Six Colorado Agricultural players received all-conference honors in 1927: fullback Rollie Caldwell, guard Lynn Pitcher, end Glen Davis, halfback Fay Rankin, center Carlyle Vickers, and guard Ed Graves.


1927 Colorado Silver and Gold football team
The 1927 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1927 college football season. Head coach Myron E. Witham led the team to a 4–4 mark in the Rocky Mountain Conference and 4–5 overall.


1927 Colored World Series
The 1927 Colored World Series was the championship tournament for the 1927 season of Negro league baseball. It was the fourth overall Series played. It matched the Chicago American Giants, champions of the Negro National League (1920–1931) and the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey, champions of the Eastern Colored League. The Giants won the series five games to three (with one tie). The two teams had faced a year earlier in the 1926 Colored World Series with the same result.


1927 Colored World Series
This time around, it was Chicago that had to hold back a comeback, since they had won the first four games (all played in Chicago) and needed just one more to clinch the Series. They proceeded to lose three of the next four while tying Game 6, which meant that there could have been a Game 10 if Chicago did not win in Atlantic City. They prevailed 11-4 in Game 9 to prevail and win their second straight title. It was the last Negro World Series played for fifteen years.


1927 Colored World Series
In Game 5, Luther Farrell of the Bacharach Giants pitched a shortened no-hitter, allowing no hits in a 7-inning complete game that was called early due to darkness.


1927 Colored World Series, Background
To get to the World Series, the Giants had to win the NNL Championship Series against the Birmingham Black Barons. The Giants won Game 1 5-0 and Game 2 10-5 before dropping Game 3 6-5 to close out the Birmingham part of the Series. In Chicago, they won Game 4 6-4 and clinched the pennant with a 6-2 win on September 25.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 1
For Atlantic City, starter Luther Farrell pitched eight innings while allowing six runs on eight hits while walking one and striking out six and hitting two batters. Willie "Bill" Foster allowed two runs on thirteen hits while walking two batters and striking out eight.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 2
Atlantic City would use two pitchers for the game. Jesse Hubbard was pulled after pitching four innings and allowing nine runs on eleven hits while striking out one batter. Hubert Lockhart pitched the remaining four innings while allowing two runs to score on three hits with one walk and three strikeouts. Willie Powell allowed one run to score in nine innings while allowing four hits with three walks and five strikeouts.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 3
Atlantic City would use three pitchers during the game in another rout loss. Hubbard was used as the starter for the second straight game. He was replaced after allowing the first two baserunners to advance in the third inning (totaling four hits and four earned runs). Roy Roberts faced two batters and allowed the runners and one more to score on two hits. Hubert Lockhart handled the remaining six innings, allowing two runs to score on four hits with one strikeout and on walk. Meanwhile, George Harney threw a complete game shutout, allowing just four hits while walking one batter and striking out eight.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 4
Luther Farrell went eight innings and allowed nine runs to score on eleven hits with six walks and one strikeout, while Webster McDonald pitched nine innings and allowed one run on six hits while walking one and striking out four.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 5
To the derision of the Chicago teammates, the game was called after seven innings with Atlantic City winning. According to reports in the Chicago Defender, the team started to yell obscene gestures at the box seats where Postmaster Alford and the mayor were sitting. Willie Foster pitched six innings and allowed three runs on five hits while walking three and striking out three. Luther Farrell pitched a shortened no-hitter of seven innings while walking five and striking out three.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 5
Chicago scored in the fourth inning the basis of an error committed by Oliver Marcell that helped Steel Arm Davis get on base; he stole second and third base before Willie Jones committed an error that led Davis to score. The second run scored in the fifth inning when Larry Brown walked and eventually reached home on a error committed by Cool Turner.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 6
The game ended after ten innings due to darkness. This was the first Negro World Series game to have all the runs scored by each team to be composed entirely of home runs. Chicago starter Willie Powell went six innings and allowed one run on six hits while walking two batters and striking out four. He was pulled for Eddie Miller, who pitched to one batter in the seventh inning (after Powell had allowed the first two runners to advance) before being pulled for George Harney. He went 3+2⁄3 innings and allowed two hits, one walk, and two strikeouts. For Atlantic City, Hubert Lockhart pitched ten innings while allowing five hits and one run, walking two and striking out five. Bacharach left nine runners on base (three times with two runners on) while Chicago left five.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 7
George Harney allowed eight runs on eleven hits in eight innings of work while walking five and striking out three. Luther Farrell pitched a complete game while allowing one run on seven hits, six walks, four strikeouts, and two hit batsmen.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 8
Webster McDonald started the game for Chicago, but he would only last four innings. In the fifth inning, he allowed a leadoff triple and two singles that tied the game (in total, he allowed eight hits with one walk and four strikeouts). Willie Foster was brought in to relieve him with a batter on first. An error would later bring the runner home. Chicago went from being up 4-2 to being down 5-4. Foster would pitch four innings and allow two hits with one run while walking two and striking out one. Jesse Hubbard pitched nine innings for Atlantic City, allowing five runs on six hits with four walks and four strikeouts.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 8
The game turned in the eighth inning that inspired controversy as the 5-5 tie was broken. It started with a leadoff double by Clarence Smith, which was followed by a Willie Jones single (followed by a stolen base). Pinch hitter Ambrose Reid hit a flyball to center fielder Sanford Jackson. The throw by Jackson was a long hard throw that went perfectly to catcher Jim Brown, who had the ball with him to block the plate.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 8
Smith, trying to run home, ran outside the baseline and even ran into the shortstop on the play, but he eventually found a path to home plate and was deemed to have scored. The argument soon grew heated between the Chicago players and the umpires and fifteen Chicago police officers were brought to the field to restore the peace. Brown was ejected and three position players switched positions. Chicago went down in the ninth inning and lost the game.


1927 Colored World Series, Series, Game 9
Chicago starter Willie Powell pitched one inning and allowed a run to score with two walks and a strikeout before being pulled for Willie Foster. He threw five innings while allowing three runs to score on eight hits and walking three with one strikeout before Rube Curry was brought in to save the eighth and ninth inning, and he pitched two perfect innings to close a 11-4 win. For Atlantic City, starter Hubert Lockhart pitched 1+2⁄3 innings and allowed five runs to score on three hits while walking four before being pulled for Luther Farrell. He pitched the remaining 6+2⁄3 innings and allowed six runs on 11 hits with one walk and nine strikeouts.


1927 Columbia Irish football team
The 1927 Columbia Irish football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University (later renamed the University of Portland) as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its first year under head coach Gene Murphy, the team compiled a 1–4 record. The team played its home games at Multnomah Stadium in Portland, Oregon.


1927 Columbia Lions football team
The 1927 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach Charles Crowley, the team compiled a 5–2–2 record and outscored opponents 135 to 54, with five shutouts. The team played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan.


1927 Combined Scottish Universities by-election
The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1927 was a by-election held from 26 to 29 April 1927 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.


1927 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, Vacancy
The seat had become vacant on 16 March 1927 when the Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Henry Craik, Bt. had died, aged 80. He had held the seat since its creation for the 1918 general election, having previously been MP for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities.


1927 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, Candidates
Two candidates contested the by-election. John Buchan, the novelist, of the Unionist Party and Hugh Guthrie of the Labour Party, who had contested Glasgow Camlachie at the 1918 general election.


1927 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, Result
The result was a victory for Buchan, who won nearly 88% of the votes. He held the seat until 1935, when he resigned to take up the post of Governor General of Canada.


1927 Connacht Senior Football Championship
The 1927 Connacht Senior Football Championship the installment of the annual Connacht Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of Connacht GAA.


1927 Connacht Senior Football Championship
The winning team qualified for the 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.


1927 Connacht Senior Football Championship
Leitrim won their first title and their last until 1994.


1927 Connacht Senior Football Championship, Teams
The Connacht championship is contested by the five counties in the Irish province of Connacht.


1927 Connacht Senior Football Championship, Results
[Match abandoned following a disputed goal for Mayo after 12 minutes. Sligo withdrew from the championship and Mayo were awarded the tie.]


1927 Connecticut Aggies football team
The 1927 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1927 college football season. The Aggies were led by fifth year head coach Sumner Dole, and completed the season with a record of 5–4.


1927 Conservative Party national convention
The 1927 national convention of the Conservative Party of Norway was held in Oslo. The convention re-elected Carl Joachim Hambro as party leader and discussed the construction of the Flåm Line.


1927 Conservative leadership convention
A Conservative leadership convention was held on October 12, 1927 at the Winnipeg Amphitheatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The convention was held to choose a new leader of the Conservative Party (formally the Liberal-Conservative Party) to choose a successor to former Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen who had led the party since 1920. This was the first time the Conservatives used a leadership convention to choose a leader. Previous leaders had been chosen by the party's caucus, the previous leader, or by the Governor General of Canada designating an individual to form a government after his predecessor's death or resignation.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Background
Meighen had succeeded Sir Robert Borden as prime minister and leader of the Unionists, a coalition of Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberal-Unionists in 1920 and attempted to forge the alliance into a permanent party called the National Liberal and Conservative Party. Despite his efforts, most Liberal supporters of the Borden government either returned to the Liberal Party of Canada or joined the new Progressive Party of Canada after World War I and Meighen's party was defeated in the 1921 federal election by the Liberals under their new leader William Lyon Mackenzie King. At a March 1922 caucus meeting that re-affirmed Meighen's leadership, the party voted to change its name to the Liberal-Conservative Party which it was known by under Sir John A. Macdonald.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Background
Meighen's Conservatives won a plurality of seats in the 1925 federal election but King's Liberals were able to continue in power until 1926 with the support of the Progressives, until King's government lost a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons of Canada. King asked Governor General Lord Byng for a dissolution and new election but Byng asked Meighen to form a government instead, a controversial decision that became known as the King-Byng Affair. Meighen's government, in turn, was defeated in a non-confidence vote after three months and the subsequent September 14, 1926 federal election returned the Liberals to power and also resulted in Meighen losing his seat in the House.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Background
Meighen resigned as party leader, and the party called a special meeting of its parliamentary caucus and defeated candidates on October 11, 1926 that elected Member of Parliament Hugh Guthrie (Wellington South) as interim leader. In addition to Guthrie, MPs Henry Herbert Stevens, Sir George Halsey Perley (Argenteuil), Robert Manion (Fort William), Charles Cahan (St. Lawrence—St. George), Sir Henry Drayton (York West), Charles William Bell (Hamilton West) and Simon Fraser Tolmie (Victoria) were also nominated; Guthrie defeated Manion and Stevens on the third ballot to become interim leader and Leader of the Official Opposition until a permanent leader was chosen. The caucus also recommended that a leadership convention, the party's first, be held in 1927 to choose a permanent leader.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Convention
Heading into the convention, Ontario Premier Howard Ferguson was considered the favourite as he enjoyed popularity in Quebec as well as Ontario as his government had repealed Regulation 17 which had restricted French-language school instruction. Other Conservatives wanted Meighen to stand as a candidate and succeed himself.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Convention
Meighen and Ferguson clashed on the convention floor after Meighen, who had attempted to make overtures to Quebec where the Conservatives and Meighen were unpopular due to the Conscription crisis of 1917, proposed that Canada not be able to go to war in future without there first being a referendum or federal election on the issue.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Convention
Meighen raised the issue on the floor of the convention but Ferguson, echoing the views of many English-Canadian Conservatives, loudly denounced Meighen's position saying: "I, as a Liberal-Conservative, entirely disagree with him and repudiate that view; and if this convention chooses to endorse him, I will dissociate myself entirely from the convention." Ferguson's comments were received with a round of boos taking him out of consideration for leadership while also making Meighen succeeding himself untenable.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Convention
George Halsey Perley, H. H. Stevens, John Allister Currie, New Brunswick Premier John Baxter, Ferguson, Nova Scotia Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes, and outgoing leader Arthur Meighen were all nominated but declined to run.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Convention
Bennett had the support of Ferguson and Stevens, who worked the convention floor on his behalf. Bennett spoke no French in his speech to delegates. Guthrie misspoke by saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome this, the greatest Liberal convention in all history," and hurt his prospects in Quebec by saying he wished to "obliterate" distinctions between French and English.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Convention
Resolutions were passed favouring preferential tariffs throughout the British Empire but not if it hurt farmers or workers, social legislation to support the unemployed, ill, and elderly "so far as it is practicable" and an immigration policy that supported settlers from Britain and excluded "such races... as are not capable of ready assimilation."


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Convention
The party also committed itself to maintaining the Canadian National Railway as a "publicly owned and operated utility" and affirmed the "traditional adherence of the Liberal-Conservative Party to the principle of loyalty to the Crown, and the maintenance of that integral connection of Canada with the British Empire".


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Convention
The convention also approved the construction of a St. Lawrence canal as an all-Canadian project, maintenance of a maximum freight rate for grain products, construction of interprovincial highways, implementation of the findings of the Duncan Commission investigating grievances of the Maritime provinces, as well as resolutions on the development of mining, the fisheries, and agriculture, and for legislation giving the Western provinces powers over natural resources within their territory.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Results
While there had been some expectation of a close race between Bennett and Guthrie, the latter's bungled speech at the convention proved severely injurious to his chances, and resulted in Bennett having a commanding lead in the first ballot. Guthrie finished second, narrowly ahead of Cahan, followed by Manion, Rogers and then Drayton.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Results
Guthrie and Cahan actually had more votes between them then Bennett did, but any hope of one dropping out and endorsing the other was ultimately thwarted by their political views being too dissimilar, plus the enmity that Guthrie's speech had generated among the delegates from Cahan's native Quebec. In addition, either Guthrie or Cahan would realistically have needed Manion's delegates in order to defeat Bennett, and Manion was not prepared to support either of them.


1927 Conservative leadership convention, Results
No-one dropped out or endorsed any other candidate prior to the second round - unlike future leadership contests, the bottom-placed candidate was not automatically eliminated in each round - but Bennett attracted roughly equal numbers of delegates from all five of his rivals, and secured victory in the second round.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic
The 1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic (Russian: Конституция Азербайджанской Социалистической Советской Республики, Konstitutsiya Azerbaydzhanskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Sovetskoy Respubliki; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan İctimai Şuralar Cümhuriyyətinin Qonstitusiyasi) was adopted by the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR at the 5th All-Azerbaijani Congress of Soviets on March 26, 1927.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic
The constitution was based on the 1925 Constitution of the Russian SFSR and the Constitution of the Transcaucasian SFSR.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Background
Shortly after the adoption of the first constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR, on March 12, 1922, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic was formed, and on December 30 on the same year, the USSR was formed. These union formations emphasizes the status of Azerbaijan SSR as a union republic, rather than a separate soviet republic. The first constitution was amended after these changes on 1925.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Background
In later years, the entry of the Nakhichevan ASSR under Azerbaijan SSR, further changes of the state apparatus, political, and socio-economical life, prompted the government to change the constitution as a whole. This led to the adoption of the 1927 Constitution of Azerbaijan SSR at the 5th All-Azerbaijan Soviet Congress on 26 March 1927.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Structure
The Constitution is divided into 5 sections and 9 chapters. The constitution consisted of 101 verses.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Structure, Section Two
2. About the affairs of the Azerbaijani Soviet Congress and the Soviet of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Structure, Section Three: Apparatus of the Soviet Power
4. About the Supreme Court of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic5. About the Nakhichevan Socialist Soviet Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast6. Regional Government


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Structure, Section Five
9. About the flag and the emblem of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section One
The first section of the constitution contains the general provisions of the organization of power in the republic. In general, it is modeled on the first chapter of the 1925 Constitution of the RSFSR, with some of its articles are copied directly from the Constitution of the RSFSR, and some others copied the articles of the Constitution of RSFSR with minor changes.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section One
The section states that Azerbaijan SSR is a sovereign state." However, the limits of the sovereignty of the Azerbaijan SSR are set to the authority of the supreme bodies of the USSR and the Transcaucasian SFSR. The same article extends this sovereignty to the right of free withdrawal from the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. This statement itself is contradictory to the Constitution of the Transcaucasian SFSR and the USSR, on which the only way of the withdrawal of the republic was by territorial and border changes, and these matters were administered by the supreme bodies of the USSR.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section One
The section enumerates the terms for an Azerbaijani citizenship. The constitution states that an Azerbaijani citizen is also the citizen of the Transcaucasian SFSR and the USSR with the basis of each entities' constitution. However, the Transcaucasian SFSR does not have special legislation on its citizenship, while in  Azerbaijan there are the law "Detailed Provision on Azerbaijani Citizenship" which was adopted by the CEC of the Azerbaijan SSR on May 14, 1927, and the USSR with the law "Provisions on Union Citizenship" which was adopted on October 29, 1924.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Two
The second section of this constitution contains the issues under the jurisdiction of the All-Azerbaijan Congress of Soviets and the Azerbaijan Central Executive Committee. This section is modeled with the same chapter of the 1925 Constitution of the RSFSR, but with several additional articles about territorial changes and the legislation of the Azerbaijani citizenship.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Three
The third section of the constitution enumerates to the structure of the Soviet government. The constitution was modeled with the same chapter of the 1925 Constitution of the RSFSR.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Three
The Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR was enumerated as a legislative, regulatory and supervisory body. The work of the Presidium was held in the presidiums of the committee and separate commissions. The Greater Presidium reviewed and approved legislation-specific decisions, while the lesser presidium was established in 1932 in place of the MICS Secretariat, which included the chairman, deputy chairman, secretary of the SCC, as well as the People's Commissar for Public Employees Inspection.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Three
The government of the Azerbaijan was enumerated in the constitution which constituted of the chairman of the Sovnarkom, the deputy and 11 people's commissars. The Heads of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Region and Nagorno-Karabakh Territorial Council, the Baku Soviet, the State Planning Committee, the State Political Office and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (Azneft) also acts as the consultative part of the government. Members of the Government, as well as the representatives of the People's Commissariat of the Transcaucasian SFSR, were included with consultative or decisive voice.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Three
The Supreme Court of the Azerbaijan SSR was established by the constitution as a part of the system of a single People's Court. The Supreme Court of the Azerbaijan SSR controls judicial affairs in the Azerbaijan SSR.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Three
The Nakhichevan ASSR and the Nagorno-Karabakh AO was established by the constitution as an integral part of the ASSR and under its jurisdiction.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Three
The local governments of the Azerbaijan SSR is divided into county and district. The rate of representation for county assemblies is 1 deputy per 100 voters from city councils and 1 deputy per 1,000 district population. The Councils of Workers, Peasants, Red Army and Sailor's Deputies are formed in other cities of the Azerbaijan SSR with a significant working population. For cities with more than 10,000 people, it is estimated that 1 deputy is for every 300 citizens. In rural communities, it is estimated that 1 deputy is for 25-40 villagers.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Three
On the condition of a city that do not meet the conditions specified, the council are not formed and the authority of the appropriate district congress of the councils and the district executive committee extends to these cities. The same condition applies to rural communities with less than 250 inhabitants. The inhabitants of such communities exercise their right to participate in the elections of the village council of the neighboring village, which has the right to elect an independent council, or by joining with the neighboring villages to choose the village council common to all these settlements.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Four
The fourth section of the constitution enumerates the procedures of elections. The chapter was modeled after the 1925 Constitution of the RSFSR.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Five
The fifth section of the constitution enumerates the budgeting laws. The budget of the Azerbaijan SSR is included into the state budget of the Transcaucasian SFSR and through it into the unified state budget of the USSR in accordance with the Constitutions of the USSR and the Transcaucasian SFSR and laws issued in accordance with the all-union federal and republican legislations. The distribution of expenses, as well as incomes collected by the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR, to expenses and incomes made in the USSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, and the Azerbaijan SSR budgeting list is confirmed by the legislations of the following entities.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Five
All local revenues and expenditures are consolidated in the local budgets in the order of all-union, federal and republican legislation. In accordance with the legislation of the USSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Azerbaijan SSR, to cover the expenses allocated under these legislations to the funds bt the local government, budgets of local governments are provided with revenue sources from tax and non-tax.


1927 Constitution of the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Frame of the Constitution, Section Six
The final chapter of the Constitution is devoted to the description of the emblem and the flag. A characteristic difference between the flag and the emblem of the Azerbaijan SSR is the image of a star and crescent. The section established the seat of the government of the Azerbaijan SSR in Baku.


1927 Copa Aldao
The 1927 Copa Aldao was the final match to decide the winner of the Copa Aldao, the 7th edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by Uruguayan side Rampla Juniors and Argentine club San Lorenzo de Almagro.


1927 Copa Aldao
The match was played at Parque Central Stadium in Montevideo, where San Lorenzo beat Rampla Juniors 1–0, winning its first and only Copa Aldao trophy in the history of the club.


1927 Copa del Rey
The King Alfonso XIII's Cup 1927 was the 27th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.


1927 Copa del Rey, Teams
Champions and runners-up of each regional championship were able to participate in the tournament. 26 teams entered the competition, making a new record of participants.


1927 Copa del Rey Final
The 1927 Copa del Rey Final was the 27th final of the Spanish cup competition, the Copa del Rey. The final was played at Torrero, in Zaragoza, on May 15, 1927. Real Unión beat Arenas Club de Getxo 1–0 and won their fourth title.


1927 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 1927 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 18th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board.


1927 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
Fr. Matthew Hall won the championship on the field of play following a 3-3 to 1-1 defeat of Cobh in the final, however, an objection by Cobh was upheld and the result was reversed. As a result of this, Cobh became the first team to win a second title. It was their first championship since 1916.


1927 Cork Junior Hurling Championship
The 1927 Cork Junior Hurling Championship was the 31st staging of the Cork Junior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board.


1927 Cork Junior Hurling Championship
On 11 March 1928, Ballincollig won the championship following a 4–00 to 3–01 defeat of Kilbrittain in the final at Bandon Sportsfield. It was their first championship title.


1927 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 1927 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 39th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.


1927 Cork Senior Football Championship
On 23 October 1927, University College Cork won the championship following a 3-03 to 1-00 defeat of Macroom in the final at the Cork Athletic Grounds. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1920.


1927 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
The 1927 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 39th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 23 February 1927. The championship began on 27 March 1927 and ended on 27 November 1927.


1927 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
On 27 November 1927, Blackrock won the championship following a 5-5 to 2-1 defeat of Redmonds in the final. This was their 18th championship title overall and their first title in two championship seasons.


1927 Cornell Big Red football team
The 1927 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1927 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach Gil Dobie, the Big Red compiled a 3–3–2 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 136 to 121.


1927 Costa Rican census
The Costa Rica 1927 Census was elaborated by then Dirección General de Estadística y Censos, predecessor of current National Institute of Statistics and Census. The total population was at the moment 471,524.


1927 County Championship
The 1927 County Championship was the 34th officially organised running of the County Championship. Lancashire County Cricket Club won the championship title for a second successive year. In May 1927, Warwickshire beat Yorkshire by eight wickets, which was Yorkshire's first loss in 71 consecutive matches in the County Championship.


1927 County Championship, Points Changes
Final placings were still decided by calculating the percentage of points gained against possible points available but in March 1927 the MCC revised the points scoring as follows:


1927 Coupe de France Final
The 1927 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Stade Olympique, Colombes on May 6, 1927, that saw Olympique de Marseille defeat US Quevilly 3–0 thanks to goals by Raymond Durand, Maurice Gallay and Jules Dewaquez.


1927 Creighton Bluejays football team
The 1927 Creighton Bluejays football team was an American football team that represented Creighton University as a member of the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1927 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Chet A. Wynne, the team compiled a 6–1–1 record (2–0 against NCC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 103 to 46. The team played its home games at Creighton Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.


1927 Crimean earthquakes
The 1927 Crimean earthquakes occurred in the month of June and again in September in the waters of the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula. Each of the submarine earthquakes in the sequence triggered tsunami. The June event was moderate relative to the large September 11 event, which had at least one aftershock that also generated a tsunami. Following the large September event, natural gas that was released from the sea floor created flames that were visible along the coastline, and was accompanied by bright flashes and explosions.


1927 Crimean earthquakes, June 26 event
The June shock was a strong event with a magnitude of 6.0 that caused a nondestructive tsunami along the coast. The shock occurred at a depth of 27 kilometres (17 mi) on the submarine slope near Yalta. The shock's intensity was gauged to be VII–VIII (Very strong–Damaging) on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale. Tide gauge stations recorded waves with a maximum amplitude of 16 centimetres (6.3 in) at Yalta, 14 centimetres (5.5 in) at Yevpatoria, and 8 centimetres (3.1 in) at Feodosia.


1927 Crimean earthquakes, September 11 event
The September event struck the Crimean Peninsula with a moment magnitude of 6.7 at a depth of 35 kilometres (22 mi). This destructive earthquake occurred at 22:15 UTC and was recorded by several early seismographs. The shock was centered about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Yalta and had a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Damaging) on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale. Near the epicentral region, fishermen reported disturbance of the sea, with tidal gauges recording 53 cm (21 in) waves at Yevpatoria and 35 cm (14 in) waves in Yalta.


1927 Crimean earthquakes, September 11 event
Numerous, very large flames were seen offshore Sevastopol, Cape Lucullus, and Yalta in the early morning following the September event. Several types of fire and flame were described by witnesses. Pale flames were up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) wide and up to 500 metres (1,600 ft) in height, and were visible for several minutes at a time. Other flames began with a whitish glow and became bright red; this style of flame sometimes burned for more than an hour. Bright flashes and explosions were also reported. The flames and explosions were attributed to methane or other hydrocarbon gasses that had been released from the seabed and spontaneously combusted in Phosphine (a self-igniting gas).


1927 Crimean earthquakes, September 16 event
An aftershock that was estimated to have a magnitude of 4.9 occurred on September 16 at 08:21 UTC. The shock was described as weak, but the sea receded at Balaklava Bay.


1927 Currie Cup
The 1927 Currie Cup was the 15th edition of the Currie Cup, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.


1927 Currie Cup
The tournament was won by  Western Province for the 12th time.


1927 Czechoslovak First League
Statistics of Czechoslovak First League in the 1927 season. Antonín Puč was the league's top scorers with 13 goals.


1927 Czechoslovak First League, Overview
It was contested by 9 teams, and Sparta Prague won the championship.


1927 Czechoslovak presidential election
The 1927 Czechoslovak presidential election took place on 27 May 1927. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was elected for his third term. His main rival was Communist Václav Šturc.


1927 Czechoslovak presidential election, Background
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was president of Czechoslovakia since 1918. His second term concluded in 1927. He decided seek another term but stated that he won't participate in the second round if he isn't elected during the first. Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants nominated Antonín Švehla who became the strongest Masaryk's competitor. Communist Party of Czechoslovakia nominated Václav Šturc. Masaryk's reelection became uncertain as he would have withdrawn from election if he isn't elected in the first round.


1927 Czechoslovak presidential election, Procedure
President was elected by bicameral parliament that consisted of 300 Deputies and 150 Senators. Candidate needed 60% of votes to be elected.


1927 Czechoslovak presidential election, Voting
Švehla withdrawn from election before the voting started. Šturc was Masaryk's only rival. 286 Deputies and 148 Senators participated in the election. 432 votes were submitted. Masaryk received 274 and was narrowly elected.


1927 Dalley by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Dalley on 26 February 1927. This was triggered by the resignation of Labor MP William Mahony.


1927 Dalley by-election
The by-election was won by former Queensland Premier Ted Theodore, the Labor candidate. After the by-election there was some suggestion that Theodore had bribed Mahony to resign so that he might enter Parliament.


1927 Dartmouth Indians football team
The 1927 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Jesse Hawley, the Indians compiled a 7–1 record. Robert MacPhail was the team captain.


1927 Dartmouth Indians football team
Myles Lane was the team's leading scorer, with 125 points, from 18 touchdowns and 17 kicked extra points.


1927 Dartmouth Indians football team
Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.


1927 Dayton Flyers football team
The 1927 Dayton Flyers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Dayton as a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference during the 1927 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Harry Baujan, the team compiled a 6–3 record.


1927 Dayton Triangles season
The 1927 Dayton Triangles season was their eighth in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 1–4–1, losing six games. They finished tenth in the league.


1927 Dayton Triangles season
On September 24, the Triangles defeated the Frankford Yellow Jackets in Philadelphia, which would be their final NFL win, despite playing two more seasons in the league. The following week, the New York Yankees came to Triangle Park and won, 6-3, in the last NFL game the Triangles would ever play in Dayton. (Seven years later, the Cincinnati Reds moved their first home game of the 1934 season to Triangle Park, losing to the Chicago Cardinals, 9-0; this would prove to be the final NFL game in Dayton.)


1927 Dayton Triangles season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1927 DePaul Blue Demons football team
The 1927 DePaul Blue Demons football team was an American football team that represented DePaul University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach Eddie Anderson, the team compiled a 1–5–1 record and was outscored by a total of 171 to 57.


1927 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 1927 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team was an American football team that represented the University of Delaware in the 1927 college football season. In its first season under head coach Joseph J. Rothrock, the team compiled a 2–5–1 record and was outscored by a total of 104 to 18.


1927 Delaware State Hornets football team
The 1927 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State University in the 1927 college football season as an independent. Though both Delaware State University and College Football Data Warehouse do not record this season, results for two games have been found. The first was a 13–0 victory over Howard High School of Technology and the second was a 12–26 loss against Princess Anne. Their coach was John D. Naylor.


1927 Denver Pioneers football team
The 1927 Denver Pioneers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Denver in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach Fred Dawson, the team compiled a 5–2 record (5–1 against RMC opponents), finished second in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 120 to 51.


1927 Detroit Tigers season
The 1927 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Detroit Tigers attempting to win the American League, and they finished in fourth place.


1927 Detroit Tigers season
Outfielder Harry Heilmann won his fourth American League batting title with a .398 batting average.


1927 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1927 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1927 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1927 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1927 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1927 Detroit Titans football team
The 1927 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit as an independent during the 1927 college football season. Detroit outscored opponents by a combined total of 235 to 47 and finished with a 7–2 record in their third year under head coach Gus Dorais. The team's losses came in games against Knute Rockne's 1927 Notre Dame team that has been rated as a national champion and against Army which was the only team to beat Notre Dame in 1927.


1927 Detroit Titans football team
The team was led by halfback Lloyd Brazil of whom coach Dorais later said: "As far as I'm concerned, there were only three great collegiate backs in my lifetime -- Jim Thorpe, George Gipp and Lloyd Brazil."


1927 Dominican Republic Constitutional Assembly election
Constitutional Assembly elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 1 June 1927. The role of the Assembly was to review and amend certain articles of the constitution. This assembly amended the constitution so president and vice president's terms would extend six years. This assembly, however, was elected by Congress, not the general population, and thus had invalided Constitutional procedures.


1927 Dominican Republic Constitutional Assembly election
The election had been boycotted by supporters of Vice President Federico Velásquez as he objected to the term length being increased. Following the amendments, the Vice President would be considered as having resigned if they did not take a new oath of office. This meant Velásquez lost office as he did not take the oath.


1927 Drake Bulldogs football team
The 1927 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1927 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Ossie Solem, the team compiled a 3–6 record (1–2 against MVC opponents), placed ninth in the MVC, and was outscored by a total of 158 to 89.


1927 Drexel Dragons football team
The 1927 Drexel Dragons football team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry—now known as Drexel University—in the 1927 college football season. The team was led by Walter Halas in his first season as head coach.


1927 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 1927 Duke Blue Devils football team was an American football team that represented Duke University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its second season under head coach James DeHart, the team compiled a 4–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 215 to 117. C. C. Bennett was the team captain.


1927 Duluth Eskimos season
The 1927 Duluth Eskimos season was the Eskimos' final season in the NFL. Coached by Ernie Nevers, the Eskimos finished with a 1–8 record. The team scored 68 points and allowed 134.


1927 Duluth Eskimos season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1927 Duquesne Dukes football team
The 1927 Duquesne Dukes football team represented Duquesne University during the 1927 college football season. The head coach was Elmer Layden, coaching his first season with the Dukes.


1927 Dutch East Indies Volksraad election
Elections to the Volksraad were held in the Dutch East Indies in 1927.


1927 Dutch East Indies Volksraad election, Electoral system
The Volksraad had a total of 60 members, 37 of which were elected and 21 appointed. Seats were also assigned to ethnic groups, with 30 for the Dutch population (15 elected, 15 appointed), 25 for the native population (19 elected, 4 appointed) and five for the Chinese population (3 elected, 2 appointed).


1927 East Tennessee State Teachers football team
The 1927 East Tennessee State Teachers football team was an American football team that represented East Tennessee State Teacher's College—now known as East Tennessee State University (ETSU)—as an independent in the 1927 college football season. They were led by third-year coach John Robinson. Robinson was assisted by William "Willie" Flinn Rogers, who taught history and government at the school from 1925 to 1968. According to Old Hickory, the 1927 season presented Robinson with a similar task to previous years, which was to develop a team out of "green material". The team finished with a 2–5 record, which included wins in their last two games over Hiwassee and Bluefield. Of their losses, they were blanked in all except against Concord, where they scored six points.


1927 Eastern Suburbs season
Eastern Suburbs (now known as the Sydney Roosters) competed in the 30th New South Wales Rugby League season in 1927.


1927 Eastern Suburbs season, Details
Cyril Abotomey • J. Barratt • Tom Barry • George Boddington • Bill Ives• Massey • F. Jefferies  • G. Hall • George Harris • G. Keys• G.H. Clamback • H. Kavanagh• Hugh Byrne • Nelson Hardy • P. Burton • Dick Brown • R. Kerr • T. Fitzpatrick • Rick Bevan• Norm Pope• Arthur Robinson • Jack Coote • Vic Webber• S. Sharp • A. Carter


1927 Edmonton municipal election
The 1927 municipal election was held December 12, 1927 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards. There were also two plebiscite questions.


1927 Edmonton municipal election
There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Charles Gibbs, Alfred Farmilo, Charles Robson, George Hazlett, and Herbert Baker were all elected to two-year terms in 1926 and were still in office.


1927 Edmonton municipal election
There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the positions were already filled:  Samuel Barnes, Thyrza Bishop, and J A Herlihy (SS) had all been elected to two-year terms in 1926 and were still in office. The same was true on the separate board, where Harry Carrigan, J O Pilon, and W D Trainor were continuing.


1927 Edmonton municipal election
This election was the last to be conducted using the single transferable vote system, as a plebiscite held concurrently with the election resulted in Edmontonians voting to return to a block voting system.


1927 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout
There were 12,907 ballots cast out of 37,106 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 34.7%.


1927 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Aldermen
Because of the single transferable vote system, Keillor received more initial votes, but Dineen won based on votes subsequently transferred from other candidates.


1927 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Assessing Improvements on Industrial Establishments
To authorize the Council to fix the Assessment of improvements for industrial establishments.


1927 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Plebiscites, Abolition of Single Transferable Vote
To abolish the Proportional Representation System of electing mayor and aldermen.


1927 Ekstraklasa
The 1927 Liga was the 7th edition of the Polish Football Championship (6th completed season ended with the selection of a winner) and the 1st season of the Liga (now Ekstraklasa), the top Polish professional league for association football clubs. The league was operated by the Polska Liga Piłki Nożnej (PLPN). The champions were Wisła Kraków, who won their 1st Polish title.


1927 Ekstraklasa, Competition modus
The season started on 3 April 1927 and concluded on 13 November 1927 (spring-autumn league). The season was played as a round-robin tournament. The team at the top of the standings won the league title. A total of 14 teams participated. Each team played a total of 26 matches, half at home and half away, two games against each other team. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw.


1927 Emperor's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 8 teams, and Kobe Icchu Club won the championship.


1927 Emperor's Cup Final
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1927 Emperor's Cup Final
1927 Emperor's Cup Final was the 7th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at Meiji Jingu Gaien Stadium in Tokyo on October 30, 1927. Kobe Icchu Club won the championship.


1927 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview
Kobe Icchu Club with Takeo Wakabayashi and Tadao Takayama won their 1st title, by defeating defending champion, Rijo Shukyu-Dan 2–0.


1927 English Greyhound Derby
The 1927 Greyhound Derby took place during October 1927 with the final being held on 15 October 1927 at White City Stadium. The competition was inaugurated by the Greyhound Racing Association and the prize money was substantial with £1,000 and a gold cup given to the winner, £300 to the runner-up and £100 to third place. This greyhound racing event began with heats at regional level, with winners progressing to a Northern final and Southern final prior to a national final at White City. The Derby would soon be established as the most significant race in UK greyhound racing.


1927 English Greyhound Derby, Race
The first three in each of the Northern and Southern finals were invited to the final, which was run at White City over a distance of 500 yards (460 m). The qualifiers from the Northern final were Great Chum, Elder Brother and Banderloo but Great Chum was replaced by Derham Boy for the final because of illness. The Southern final was won by Entry Badge by four lengths in a time of 29.20 seconds.


1927 English Greyhound Derby, Race
This was the first ever Derby final and was held on 15 October 1927. It was won in a time of 29.01 seconds by Entry Badge, a brindled dog weighing 66 pounds (30 kg), trained by Joe Harmon and owned by Edwin Baxter. Ever Bright came second, six lengths behind. Baxter owned the first three home.


1927 English Greyhound Derby, Race
Entry Badge, who had cost Baxter 40 guineas, was a granddaughter of a great coursing dog called Hopsack.


1927 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances
6, ½, head, 3, 1 (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. From 1927-1950 one length was equal to 0.06 of one second but race times are shown as 0.08 as per modern day calculations.


1927 English cricket season
1927 was the 34th season of County Championship cricket in England. Lancashire retained the title. A New Zealand team toured but there were no Test matches. Douglas Jardine and Harold Larwood topped the batting and bowling averages respectively.


1927 English cricket season, Leading batsmen
Douglas Jardine topped the averages with 1002 runs @ 91.09


1927 English cricket season, Leading bowlers
Harold Larwood topped the averages with 100 wickets @ 16.95


1927 Estonian Football Championship
The 1927 Estonian Football Championship was the seventh top-division football league season in Estonia. Nine teams, seven from Tallinn and one from Pärnu took part in the league. It was played as a knock-out tournament. VS Sport Tallinn won the championship.


1927 European Amateur Boxing Championships
The 1927 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Berlin, Germany from 16 to 20 May. It was the second edition of the competition, organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 50 fighters from 13 countries participating.


1927 European Aquatics Championships
The 1927 LEN European Aquatics Championships were held from 31 August to 4 September in Bologna, Italy. Women's events were held for the first time.


1927 European Figure Skating Championships
The 1927 European Figure Skating Championships were held in Vienna, Austria. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the discipline of men's singles.


1927 European Rowing Championships
The 1927 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Como in the Italian Lombardy region. The competition was for men only and they competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+).


1927 FA Charity Shield
The 1927 Football Association Charity Shield was the 14th FA Charity Shield, an annual English association football match. The match, held at Stamford Bridge on 12 October 1927, was contested by Cardiff City, who beat Arsenal in the final of the 1926–27 FA Cup, and amateur side Corinthian. This was the first FA Charity Shield appearance for both sides, although Corinthian had previous won the Sheriff of London Charity Shield on three occasions.


1927 FA Charity Shield
After a goalless first half, Corinthian went ahead early in the second half with a goal from Gilbert Ashton. There were many attacks from both sides, but it took until the 77th minute before Cardiff equalised with a header by Hughie Ferguson after a series of passing plays. With only a few minutes remaining on the clock, Cardiff won a corner kick and from the cross, and Len Davies tapped the ball into the net to put them ahead. The game finished with the score two goals to one in Cardiff City's favour. Several charities benefited from the proceeds of the match, including the King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers and the National Institute for the Blind.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Background
The FA Charity Shield was founded in 1908 as a successor to the Sheriff of London Charity Shield. It was a contest between the respective champions of the Football League and Southern League, and then by 1913 teams of amateur and professional players. At a Football Association Council meeting on 22 April 1927, it was decided that the following season's Charity Shield match should be played between the winner of the 1926–27 FA Cup and the amateur team Corinthians. This would mark the first occasion Corinthians would play in the competition, they had previously won the Sheriff of London Charity Shield on four occasions.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Background
Cardiff City qualified for the 1927 FA Charity Shield as winners of the 1926–27 FA Cup. They defeated Arsenal by one goal to nil, with the only goal of the game coming from Hughie Ferguson. It was the club's first FA Cup victory, and the only time that the trophy had been won by a club outside of England. A few months after Cardiff's victory, the match between them and Corinthians for the FA Charity Shield was set to take place at Stamford Bridge on 12 October. Corinthian announced their team a few days prior to the game, though goalkeeper Benjamin Howard Baker was subsequently replaced by A.M. Russell, who normally played for Cambridge University A.F.C.. Due to an injury to Tom Watson, Billy Hardy was switched to the other wing in defence for Cardiff City.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Match, Summary
The Corinthians gained a corner kick early on, and Cardiff cleared. This was followed up by a further attack by the amateurs, but R.G. Jenkins' shot went straight to Tom Farquharson in the Cardiff goal. Cardiff attacked twice in quick succession; both chances were squandered. A.H. Chadder, Frank Hartley and Jenkins moved up-field for Corinthian with some passing movement and played the ball through for Claude Ashton, but he shot wide of the post. Three corners followed for Cardiff, which were each stopped by Russell in goal for Corinthian stopped each chance.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Match, Summary
A few minutes later Len Davies headed the ball down to the feet of Ferguson, but the Cardiff player fired the ball wide of the goal despite being only a few feet away from the goal line. Just before half time, Cardiff won a direct free kick; Fred Keenor hammered the ball into a wall of Corinthian players.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Match, Summary
The second half began with a speedy Cardiff attack. Corinthian countered, resulting in shots from both Claude and Gilbert Ashton within 15 seconds of each other. Another Cardiff attack resulted in Ferguson missing the goal from a few feet out once again. After four minutes in the second half, Corinthians attacked once more. Fred Ewer played it down the left wing to Kenneth Hegan, who passed it into the centre towards Gilbert Ashton, who fired it past Farquharson.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Match, Summary
Shortly after the restart, Billy Thirlaway appeared to be about to score a certain goal for Cardiff, but was charged down by Russell. Further chances came in rapid succession; for Cardiff, Ferguson struck the crossbar with one shot; then for Corinthian, Claude Ashton passed forward to Jenkins, who struck it wide of an open goal mouth. Hegan sent the ball over the bar, and then a further shot by Claude Ashton was charged down.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Match, Summary
In the 77th minute, Keenor, Ferguson and Davies passed the ball among themselves before playing it wide to Thirlaway. Ferguson ran to the centre and the ball was crossed towards him. Ferguson leapt and headed the ball into the net to equalise for Cardiff. It looked like Cardiff were about to go ahead, however, a last minute tackle by Alfred Bower prevented Ernie Curtis from scoring, giving the Welsh team another corner. The ball was fired towards the goal mouth, and was shot into the goal from close range by Davies putting Cardiff ahead. The final two attacks of the game were both by Cardiff, with Russell saving a header by Ferguson and then Curtis firing the ball over the crossbar.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Post-match
The match raised money for several charities. King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers received £210; National Institute for the Blind, £52 10s; Newspaper Press Fund, £52 10s; National Institute of Journalist's Orphans, £52 10s; London Lock Hospital, £52 10s; Prince of Wales General Hospital, £52 10s; Sheffield Royal Infirmary, £52 10s; Railway Benevolent Institution, £25; and the Surgical Aid Society received £25. A further sum of £210 was given to several Welsh based charities.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Post-match
Corinthian never played in another FA Charity Shield, although they would later be runner-up in a resurrected Sheriff of London's Charity Shield, first to Arsenal in 1931 and in 1932, and then to Tottenham Hotspur in 1934. The club ceased to exist in 1939, when they merged with fellow amateur team Casuals to form the Corinthian-Casuals, which still plays today.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Post-match
The format of the FA Charity Shield changed several further times over the following decades, and in 1974 it was moved to August to become the opening match of each year's Football League season, and played between the winner of the FA Cup and the most senior league, now the Premier League.


1927 FA Charity Shield, Post-match
Cardiff City is yet to return to the FA Charity Shield, which was renamed the FA Community Shield in 2002. However, between 2001 and 2006, the match was held at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium while the new Wembley Stadium was under construction. The closest Cardiff City has come so far to returning to the match was in 2008 when they reached the FA Cup Final once more, but lost by a goal to nil against Portsmouth.


1927 FA Cup Final
The 1927 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Cardiff City and Arsenal on 23 April 1927 at the Empire Stadium (the original Wembley Stadium). The final was the showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup), organised by the Football Association. Cardiff, one of the few Welsh teams taking part, won the match 1–0. Their victory remains the only occasion the trophy, which was previously known as the "English Cup", has been won by a team based outside England.


1927 FA Cup Final
The teams entered the competition in the third round as members of the Football League First Division and progressed through five rounds to reach the final. In the fifth round, Cardiff knocked out the reigning champions, Bolton Wanderers. By the quarter-final stage, Arsenal and Cardiff were the only teams from the First Division remaining.


1927 FA Cup Final
On the day of the final, additional trains were provided to transport Cardiff's fans to Wembley, and police reinforcements were deployed to keep at bay fans who had been sold fake tickets. A concert held before the game included a rendition of "Abide with Me"; singing this song before the match has since become a cup final tradition. For the first time, the final was broadcast on the radio by the BBC; some sources suggest this broadcast was the origin of the phrase "back to square one", although the expression predates the match. There were more than 300,000 applications for tickets, and 91,206 were in attendance. A further 15,000 fans listened in Cardiff's Cathays Park to the radio broadcast.


1927 FA Cup Final
The only goal of the game was credited to Cardiff's Hughie Ferguson after his shot slipped out of the hands of Arsenal goalkeeper Dan Lewis, who knocked the ball into the net with his elbow. Lewis later blamed his new woollen jersey, saying that it was greasy. This inspired the Arsenal tradition of washing goalkeeper jerseys before every match. The press called the game the "Singing Final" and highlighted that the FA Cup had gone to Wales for the first time. In the ensuing years, Cardiff suffered a decline in their fortunes and did not reach the FA Cup final again until 2008.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Cardiff City
Cardiff City began its campaign for the 1926–27 FA Cup with a home game at Ninian Park in front of around 30,000 fans against fellow Football League First Division side Aston Villa in January 1927. After a goalless first half, Cardiff scored twice via a header by Len Davies and a shot by Ernie Curtis. Aston Villa managed to reply just once, when Cardiff goalkeeper Tom Farquharson scored an own goal after turning in a shot by Villa forward Arthur Dorrell. In the fourth round, Cardiff were drawn against Football League Second Division side Darlington. Newspaper reports indicated that Cardiff were the better team, and had it not been for the success of Darlington's defence they would have won by a greater margin. The goals were scored by George McLachlan and Hughie Ferguson.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Cardiff City
In the fifth round, Cardiff were drawn away against Bolton Wanderers, the reigning FA Cup champions. In front of a crowd of 49,465 at Bolton's ground Burnden Park, Cardiff won by two goals to nil, the scorers being Ferguson and Davies. Following this round, Cardiff and Arsenal were the only remaining teams from the Football League First Division. After an initial goalless draw in the following round against Second Division Chelsea on 5 March, the two sides met again at Ninian Park in a replay five days later.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Cardiff City
Sam Irving put the Welsh team ahead after nine minutes, before Davies added a second after 21 minutes. Chelsea were awarded a penalty, but the shot by Andrew Wilson was saved by Farquharson. The goalkeeper had developed a reputation for saving penalty kicks by charging from his goalline as the shot was taken; this save from Wilson ultimately led to a rule change, prohibiting goalkeepers from rushing forward during a penalty. Chelsea scored twice in quick succession, Albert Thain with the first a minute before half-time but Bob Turnbull equalised, four minutes into the second half. Cardiff won through a penalty of their own; Harry Wilding handled the ball and Ferguson converted the penalty.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Cardiff City
In the semi-finals Cardiff were drawn against Reading, who had reached the semi-final for the first time. As FA Cup semi-finals are held at neutral venues, the match was played at Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton. Additional trains were put on to bring Cardiff fans to Wolverhampton for the match, and there was an expectation that the game would set a new attendance record for the ground. Heavy rain had fallen before the match, resulting in a soft pitch.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Cardiff City
Reading appeared stronger at the start, but in the 25th minute Bert Eggo failed to clear the ball from the Reading penalty area, allowing Ferguson to score for Cardiff. The remainder of the match was dominated by the Welsh. A further goal followed in the 35th minute from Harry Wake, sending Cardiff into half-time two goals ahead. Reading pressed on initially during the second half, but Cardiff gradually regained domination of play, and Ferguson scored his second of the game in the 70th minute. Cardiff's fans began to celebrate early, correctly believing that Reading could not come back from three goals down.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
Arsenal were drawn against a First Division opponent in the third round, meeting Sheffield United at Bramall Lane. Both teams scored early in the match, and three goals came in the space of six minutes. The first was the result of a scramble which ended when Jimmy Brain headed the ball into the net for Arsenal. United equalised through a header by Harry Johnson, but Arsenal went ahead once more after a goal by Charlie Buchan. David Mercer equalised again for Sheffield after 40 minutes, to keep the scores level going into half-time. Joe Hulme scored the winning goal for Arsenal in the 60th minute.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
Arsenal were nearly eliminated from the competition in the following round when they played Second Division side Port Vale. After eight minutes, Tom Parker scored an own goal, putting Port Vale ahead. Buchan equalised for Arsenal early in the second half, but Port Vale went ahead once more with a goal by Wilf Kirkham via a rebounded shot after Dan Lewis saved the initial penalty. Arsenal chased a further equaliser, which came four minutes from time by Brain.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
There were far fewer goals scored in the replay at Arsenal Stadium. A snow flurry left the ground muddy and the play was mostly limited to long balls. Brain hit the post in the first half, and the only goal of the game came shortly afterwards following a run by Buchan into the Port Vale box. Arsenal's remaining games were played in London. In the following round, they defeated Liverpool at home by two goals to nil, the same scoreline in team's league encounter earlier in the season; Liverpool had been unbeaten since New Year's Day. Both goals came as a result of indirect free kicks in rapid succession, the first a header by Brain, then another by Buchan which the goalkeeper could only clear after it had crossed the line.


1927 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
In the quarter final against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arsenal initially went down by a goal but an equaliser came from Billy Blyth after a further 15 minutes. Both teams had good attacks on goal throughout the rest of the game, but the only further goal came from a header by Hulme for Arsenal after a run and a cross from Jack Butler. The draw for the semi-final saw Arsenal play Southampton at Stamford Bridge. The muddy state of the pitch hampered the pace of the play shown by Arsenal, but both Buchan and Hulme scored for The Gunners to Southampton's single response by Bill Rawlings. Southampton were denied two penalty appeals.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
Cardiff City had previously reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup twice, and two years earlier in 1925, they were defeated in the final. Arsenal had never reached a final previously so whoever won would take the trophy for the first time. Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman held a press conference on 21 April where he announced that Horace Cope was injured and would be unable to play at left back.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
He doubted whether Syd Hoar or Alf Baker would be available as both were still recovering from injury, and so he was leaving the selections for both the right half and outside left positions open should they become fit before the game. He saw Bill Seddon and Sam Haden as the alternatives should his first choice players not recover. When asked about who would win the game, he promised the press an answer after the match. Both Baker and Hoar were eventually named in the Arsenal team.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
The side trained at the Arsenal Stadium on their own pitch before the final. The players met at Hendon Hall Hotel on the morning of the match but their travel plans were disrupted when they became stuck in heavy traffic. Manager Herbert Chapman was forced to leave the coach to telephone local police for an escort; two motorcycle officers arrived to escort the team to the ground.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
Cardiff City prepared for the final at Southport, Lancashire, at the Palace Hotel where the squad had stayed ahead of previous rounds. The players kept relaxed with massages, games of bowls and salt baths. On the day before the match, they travelled to Harrow on the Hill where they stayed at the Kings Head Hotel. They were open with the press about their tactics, saying they hoped to subdue Arsenal's attack by having Billy Hardy keep Buchan at bay.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
Hardy and Cardiff's defence were seen as a key part of the team's chances; ahead of the match, Buchan described them as "an impassable barrier". Cardiff were almost free to choose their first choice team. The only omission was Harry Wake who had suffered damage to his kidneys in a league match against Sheffield Wednesday a week before the final. Other than Wake, their team was the same as that which played Reading in the semi-final. Ernie Curtis was selected as his replacement, becoming at the age of 19 the youngest player at the time to feature in an FA Cup final. Tom Farquharson, Jimmy Nelson, Fred Keenor and Billy Hardy had played in the 1925 final defeat.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Lloyd George, and future Prime Minister Winston Churchill were in attendance for the match. The press billed the match as England versus Wales, and noted that among the Welsh fans were many women, including mothers with babies. Special trains were laid on for the Cardiff fans, arriving at Paddington train station from 4 am onwards. The Metropolitan Railway put on additional trains to commute fans from Baker Street station to Wembley Park; one every two minutes.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
Between 11 am to kick off, 30,000 fans per hour travelled this route; some 100,000 fans were expected to arrive at the ground. The Welsh fans made special excursions across London; some travelled to St. Paul's Cathedral, where they sang Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. Other fans went to The Cenotaph, Whitehall, where they dressed it in Welsh colours to honour the veterans of the First World War.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
As the Cardiff team bus arrived at the stadium, the fans threw leeks at the vehicle. The team had adopted a black cat for the occasion, named Trixie, which had been found wandering astray by some of the players during a round of golf at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club before their earlier match with Bolton. They decided it was a good omen and Ferguson was sent to find the owners of the animal; they agreed to let the club keep the cat in return for two final tickets if they progressed that far. Police reinforcements were required at Empire Stadium, as at 1 pm a crowd of people had gathered outside the ticket office in a threatening manner. Many fake tickets had been sold to members of the crowd, and the stewards were refusing to allow them entry.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
A community concert began inside stadium at 1:50 pm, led by the bands of the Grenadier and Irish Guards. Songs included "Abide with Me". This was the first time it had been performed at an FA Cup final, but it became a tradition to sing it before every final.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
Loud cheers were heard forty minutes later during the concert to celebrate the arrival of King George V. As the players entered the field, the King shook hands with each of them, as well as the officials: the referee William F. Bunnell from Preston, and the linesmen G.E. Watson from Kent and M. Brewitt from Lincoln. The match was the first cup final to be broadcast on the radio by the BBC. Commentary was provided by Derek McCulloch and George Allison.


1927 FA Cup Final, Pre-match
The broadcast has been credited with creating the phrase "back to square one" to allow commentators to describe the area of the pitch where play was taking place; square one in this context is an area nearest to one of the goals. Uses of the phrase have also been documented before the match. Nearly 92,000 fans attended the match; more than 300,000 originally applied for tickets.


1927 FA Cup Final, Match, Summary
Cardiff City captain Fred Keenor won the coin toss for his side, and so Ferguson kicked off the match. Shortly afterwards Arsenal won a free kick and the ball went into Cardiff's penalty area for the first time but was cleared by Tom Watson. Irving went on a run on the right side of the pitch, but Arsenal defender Andy Kennedy stopped the play. Arsenal attacked again, and Sloan dodged several tackles before a pass to Hoar caused the chance to break down as he had moved offside.


1927 FA Cup Final, Match, Summary
A direct free kick was given to Arsenal shortly afterwards, but the shot by Parker from 25 yards (23 m) was saved by Farquharson for Cardiff. Combined play by Hulme and Buchan led to a corner, which then forced another three corners in a rapid succession. Arsenal could not capitalise on the opportunities and after the final corner the ball was shot a distance over the bar. The first half ended, Arsenal having dominated but the Cardiff City defence had stopped them each time. There was an incident in the crowd during the first half, at the 25th minute around 400 spectators outside the stadium rushed a gate being manned by four policemen. Reinforcements arrived and managed to push the crowd back when they reached the turnstiles.


1927 FA Cup Final, Match, Summary
Arsenal again went on the attack as the second half began, winning another corner following a header by Buchan. Hulme drifted in a well placed cross, but nothing was made of it. Cardiff's then attacked: Curtis sent in a low shot which was saved by Lewis in the Arsenal goal. Shortly afterwards, Butler, the Arsenal midfielder, was struck hard in the face by the ball causing a brief delay to play. The game resumed, and McLachlan attacked down the wing for Cardiff; he passed to Davies whose shot went just wide of the post. Buchan attempted to return the advantage to Arsenal with a long pass to the left wing for Hoar, but Cardiff City's Jimmy Nelson covered the move. City's attacking continued, and a shot from Hardy appeared to shake Lewis in goal as he did not gather the ball cleanly.


1927 FA Cup Final, Match, Summary
The only goal of the game followed shortly thereafter. Curtis went on a run for Cardiff before passing it forward near the box to Ferguson. He shot the ball towards the goal, but it had little power and was easily picked up by Lewis. As he did so, the ball squirmed out of Lewis' hands and slipped in between the crook of his left elbow and body. With Cardiff forwards closing in, Lewis tried to reclaim the ball but only succeeded in knocking it into the net with his elbow.


1927 FA Cup Final, Match, Summary
Arsenal sought to attack immediately after the kick off, but the move faltered when Brain was caught offside. Cardiff countered, and possibly could have had a second goal, but Curtis chose to shoot himself rather than pass to Davies, who would have been presented with an open goal as Lewis was out of position. The match ended with a victory for Cardiff City by one goal to nil. The King presented the trophy to Cardiff's captain Keenor, and medals to each of the players from both teams.


1927 FA Cup Final, Post match and aftermath
The Cardiff City victory in the 1927 FA Cup Final remains the only time that the trophy has been won by a team outside England. At the time it had been referred to as the "English Cup". This was a highlight of the coverage in the press afterwards, the Daily Mirror using the headline "How England's Football Cup Went to Wales", as was the volume of singing that took place during the proceedings.


1927 FA Cup Final, Post match and aftermath
An article in the Hull Daily Mail even went as far as to suggest that the match would be remembered for the singing specifically, calling it the "Singing Final". There was an open air radio broadcast of the match in Cathays Park attended by 15,000 fans, and after the victory the team's colours were strung throughout the city, and local shopkeepers made replicas of the trophy out of butter to display in shop windows. Cardiff goalkeeper Tom Farquharson, who became the first Irish goalkeeper to win the FA Cup, acquired the match ball after the game and donated it to the Church. The ball is now stored at the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame at St Fagans National Museum of History.


1927 FA Cup Final, Post match and aftermath
After the match, the Cardiff team headed to a hotel in Bloomsbury before heading to Windsor and Eton College on the following day. They toured the college, and some of the players visited Windsor Castle and Kempton Park Racecourse. They headed back to Cardiff later that day from Paddington station, finding themselves delayed at several stations en route as fans flooded platforms at Reading, Swindon and Newport to see the team. They eventually arrived in Cardiff at 6:35 pm.


1927 FA Cup Final, Post match and aftermath
The team were mobbed at the station with some of the crowd breaking through a police cordon at the entrance before crossing railway lines to greet the players on the platform. When the team disembarked, they were met by motor coaches and a band, and driven to the City Hall. Some 150,000 fans lined the streets of Cardiff to welcome the team back home. After leading some communal singing outside the City Hall, the team and their wives attended a dinner and dance in the building.