1927 Soviet Union legislative election
The elections were noteworthy for a number of reasons. In the aftermath, peasants were moving closer to the government, accepting more of its policies as beneficial, the Jewish population gained more representation, and party purges were on the horizon.


1927 Soviet Union legislative election, Campaign
The elections were held under a one-party state, as "any party except the Communist party [was] illegal within the country" but campaigns still included unpleasantness, as the Trotskyists complained that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was losing "control of the legislative bodies," which Stalin's dictatorship fervently denied, and there was "the disfranchising of 142,000 citizens...who were permitted to vote last year," some of whom were peasants. Around this time, some of the citizenry were engaging in anti-communist actions and voted against CPSU candidates, worrying the Soviet government deeply.


1927 Soviet Union legislative election, Campaign
Some in rural areas tried to rouse public sentiment against the CPSU but this was unsuccessful as religious members, like priests and deacons, gained rights to vote in the elections, whilst certain individuals were disenfranchised for opposing the goals of Soviet ideology.


1927 Spanish Grand Prix
The 1927 Spanish Grand Prix (formally the III Gran Premio de España) was a Grand Prix motor race held at Circuito Lasarte on 31 July 1927. The race was held over 40 laps of a 17.315 km circuit, for a total race distance of 692.600 km. The race was won by Robert Benoist driving a Delage.


1927 Spring Hill Badgers football team
The 1927 Spring Hill Badgers football team was an American football team that represented Spring Hill College, a Jesuit college in Mobile, Alabama, during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach William T. Daly, the team compiled a 6–1 record.


1927 St. Ignatius Gray Fog football team
The 1927 St. Ignatius Gray Fog football team was an American football team that represented St. Ignatius College (later renamed the University of San Francisco) as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC) during the 1927 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Jimmy Needles, the Gray Fog compiled a 3–5–1 record and was outscored by a total of 117 to 83.


1927 St. Louis Browns season
The 1927 St. Louis Browns season involved the Browns finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 59 wins and 94 losses.


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


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


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


1927 St. Louis Cardinals season
The 1927 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 46th season in St. Louis, Missouri, and its 36th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 92–61 during the season and finished second in the National League.


1927 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason
In a deal that shocked the baseball world, the Cardinals traded long-time star Rogers Hornsby on December 20, 1926, to the New York Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring. The deal was held up because Hornsby, as part of his contract as the manager of the Cardinals (he was a player-manager at the time), owned several shares of stock in the Cardinals. Cardinals owner Sam Breadon offered Hornsby a sum for the stock considerably lower than what Hornsby demanded for it, and neither would budge. Eventually, the other owners of the National League made up the difference, and the trade went through.


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


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


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


1927 St. Xavier Musketeers football team
The 1927 St. Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented St. Xavier College (later renamed Xavier University) in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1927 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach Joseph A. Meyer, the team compiled an 8–1–1 record (1–0 against OAC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 411 to 63. The team played its home games at Corcoran Field in Cincinnati.


1927 Stanford football team
The 1927 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1927 college football season. In head coach Pop Warner's fourth season, Stanford was undefeated in the Pacific Coast Conference, with a tie in the game against USC. With a three-way tie for the conference championship, Stanford was chosen to represent the conference in the 1928 Rose Bowl against Pittsburgh, with Stanford winning its first Rose Bowl in its fourth attempt, 7–6.


1927 Stanford football team
The team played its home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California and competed in the Pacific Coast Conference.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1927 Stanley Cup Finals was played by the Ottawa Senators and the Boston Bruins. It was the first time the Cup was solely contested by National Hockey League teams, owing to the demise of the Western Hockey League the previous year. It was won by the Ottawa Senators, coached by Dave Gill, over the Boston Bruins, coached by Art Ross. This was the Senators' fourth win since 1920, and eleventh overall, but it marked the end of the dynasty. The original Senators would not win another.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals
It would be the last time a team from Ottawa would play in the Finals until the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals, and the first Stanley Cup Finals to have games played in both Canada and the United States.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
The Stanley Cup Finals was originally intended to be a best-of-three series. After the first game was declared a draw, NHL President Calder ruled that the series would go no more than five games, with overtimes limited to 20 minutes. If the teams were tied after five games, the teams would share the championship. In the end, the series went four games because of two ties. These were the last ties in Stanley Cup history, notwithstanding the unfinished 3–3 Stanley Cup final match between Edmonton and Boston on May 24, 1988. Ottawa's Frank Nighbor was playing in his sixth Stanley Cup series, while Boston's Sprague Cleghorn and Billy Coutu were playing in their fifth Stanley Cup series.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
Rough play marred the series: in the final game, Lionel Hitchman and George Boucher were ejected for a wild fight which Ottawa police had to break up. Hooley Smith butt-ended Boston's Harry Oliver, and Eddie Shore fought with Smith in retaliation; both Smith and Shore were ejected. After the game, Billy Coutu assaulted referee Jerry Laflamme, tackled referee Billy Bell and started a bench-clearing brawl. Coutu was barred from the league for life, Smith was given a one-month suspension effective in the 1927–28 season, while Boucher, Hitchman and Jimmy Herbert were all fined.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
The April 13, 1927, game at the Ottawa Auditorium was the last Stanley Cup Finals game in Ottawa until the June 2, 2007, game played at Scotiabank Place between the current Senators and the Anaheim Ducks. It is known that one fan, Russell Williams, attended both games, 80 years apart, both games won by Ottawa.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one
The first game ended in a scoreless draw after two ten-minute overtime periods. In the overtime, the condition of the ice became unplayable and NHL President Frank Calder called the game. There were two disallowed goals, one by each team, and both disallowed by off-sides.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one
Before the next game, Calder decided that the series would play to five games if necessary. If after the five games, the teams were tied, that the teams would share the Stanley Cup honours. Calder also ruled that overtimes would be limited to 20 minutes.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game two
In the second game, the Senators changed their tactics, going on the offensive. King Clancy and Cy Denneny scored in the first period for Ottawa. The Senators played a defensive game in the second period. In the third period, Harry Oliver scored for the Bruins on a goal-mouth scramble to bring the Bruins within one. In the final minute, with the Bruins pressing, Denneny scored again to put the game beyond doubt.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three
The series switched to Ottawa. The Bruins took the early lead. Jimmy "Sailor" Herbert broke in on a pass from Harry Oliver and beat Alex Connell in the Ottawa net at 7:14 of the first period. In the second, the Senators picked up the pace and Denneny scored at 15:15 on a pass from Clancy to tie the score. Neither team could break the tie in the third period or the two overtimes. The result meant that Ottawa could win the series with a win in game four, making game five unnecessary.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four
The Senators decided to start two players who had been substitutes in the previous games, Frank Finnigan and Hec Kilrea and the moves were a success. The Senators came out on the offensive and took a 2–0 lead in the first period on goals by Finnigan and Denneny. Denneny scored again in the third period to put the Senators ahead 3–0. The game degenerated after that. Lionel Hitchman and George Boucher fought, with Eddie Shore jumping in. Ottawa police jumped onto the ice to help the referees and Hitchman and Boucher were ejected. Oliver scored with six minutes to play. Ottawa's Hooley Smith butt-ended Oliver in the face with a minute to play. Shore jumped in to fight Smith and the two were ejected. After the game Coutu attacked referee Laflamme on his way to the dressing room.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1927 Stanley Cup was presented to Senators captain George Boucher by NHL President Frank Calder following the Senators 3–1 win over the Bruins in game four.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Senators players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
With the win Hooley Smith became the fourth player to have won Olympic gold and the Stanley Cup. Smith had won the gold medal at the 1924 Olympics with the Toronto Granites.


1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving, Coaching and administrative staff
Dave Gill was 3rd NHL rookie Coach to win the Stanley Cup. Major T. W. McDonald's first name is unknown.


1927 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 1927 Stanley Cup playoffs were held from March 29 to April 13, 1927, to determine the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Stanley Cup. In the first Stanley Cup Final with two NHL teams, the Ottawa Senators defeated the Boston Bruins 2–0–2 in a best-of-five series.


1927 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff format
With the collapse of the Western Hockey League, the Stanley Cup became the championship trophy of the NHL. The NHL teams now battled out amongst themselves for the coveted Cup. The new division alignment and the new playoff format also meant that an American team was guaranteed to be the first American NHL team to make the Cup Finals.


1927 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff format
The division winners received a bye to the second round. The second-place and third-place finishers played a two-game, total-goals series to advance to the second round. The second-place Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins both advanced to the second round. The Canadiens lost to the first-place Ottawa Senators, while the Bruins upset the first-place New York Rangers to set up the Final. Ties were not broken using overtime. After two ties in the Final, NHL president Frank Calder capped the Final at four games and neither team won three games of the best-of-final. Ottawa won two to Boston's none and the series ended on April 13 with Ottawa the winner.


1927 Stanley Cup playoffs, Quarterfinals, (A2) Boston Bruins vs. (A3) Chicago Black Hawks
Game one of this series was played in New York.


1927 Stanley Cup playoffs, Playoff scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points


1927 State of the Union Address
The 1927 State of the Union Address was given on Tuesday, December 6, 1927. It was given by Calvin Coolidge, the 30th United States President, to the 70th United States Congress. He said, "For many years the Federal Government has been building a system of dikes along the Mississippi River for protection against high water. During the past season the lower States were overcome by a most disastrous flood. Many thousands of square miles were inundated a great many lives were lost, much livestock was drowned, and a very heavy destruction of property was inflicted upon the inhabitants." He talks about controlling and preventing floods.


1927 Stourbridge by-election
This was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Stourbridge. Stourbridge was one of the Worcestershire constituencies, bordering Bewdley, where the Conservative Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin sat.


1927 Stourbridge by-election, Vacancy
Douglas Pielou who had been the Unionist MP here since 1922, died on 9 January 1927, at the age of 39, causing the by-election.


1927 Stourbridge by-election, Electoral history
Pielou had gained the seat in 1922 from the Liberals. Since then, Labour had emerged as the main challenger, finishing a close second at the last General election in 1924;


1927 Stourbridge by-election, Campaign
Polling day was set for 23 February 1927, forty-five days after the death of Pielou, allowing for a reasonably lengthy campaign.


1927 Stourbridge by-election, Aftermath
Wellock stood again here at the next General Election and was re-elected. Hogbin did not stand again. Edwards contested Burnley and finished third.


1927 Summer Student World Championships
The 1927 Summer Student World Championships, was the third editions of the Summer Student World Championships, were organised by the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE) and held in Rome, Italy. Held from 28 August to 4 September, 269 athletes from 15 nations competed in the sports programme including athletics, fencing, association football, swimming and tennis. Women's events were introduced for the first time, but in swimming only.


1927 Suvanto
1927 Suvanto, provisional designation 1936 FP, is a stony Eunomian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 18 March 1936, by Finnish astronomer Rafael Suvanto at the Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland. The asteroid was posthumously named in honor of the discoverer.


1927 Suvanto, Orbit and classification
Suvanto is a member of the Eunomia family, the most prominent family in the intermediate main-belt, which mostly consists of stony S-type asteroids. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.3–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 4 months (1,577 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an inclination of 13° with respect to the ecliptic.


1927 Suvanto, Physical characteristics
It will pass 0.048 AU (7,200,000 km) from 2 Pallas on 24 May 2074, which will allow a refinement to the known mass of Pallas.


1927 Suvanto, Physical characteristics
Photometric observations of Suvanto collected during 2004–2005 show a rotation period of 8.163 hours with a brightness variation of 0.60 magnitude.


1927 Suvanto, Naming
This minor planet was named in memory of Rafael Suvanto (credited discoverer), assistant of Yrjö Väisälä. Suvanto died during the last days of the Finnish Winter War of in the Battle of Summa (also see naming of asteroid 1928 Summa). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 (M.P.C. 5450).


1927 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship
The 1927 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship was the sixth season of the Swedish Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Sweden. IK Gota won the championship.


1927 Swiss referendum
A double referendum was held in Switzerland on 15 May 1927. Voters were asked whether they approved of amending article 30 of the constitution and a federal law on car and bicycle traffic. The constitutional amendment was approved by voters, whilst the traffic law was rejected.


1927 Swiss referendum, Background
The constitutional question was a mandatory referendum, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. The traffic law question was an optional referendum, and required only a majority of voters.


1927 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1927 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1927 college football season. The Orangemen were led by first-year head coach Lew Andreas and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. Team captain and fullback Ray Barbuti was also captain of Syracuse's athletics team, and he won two gold medals in sprinting at the 1928 Summer Olympics.


1927 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1927 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as a member the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1927 college football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Matty Bell, the Horned Frogs compiled and overall record of 4–3–2 overall with a mark of 1–2–2 in conference play, placing fifth. TCU played their home games at Clark Field, located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1927 Targa Florio
The 1927 Targa Florio was a Grand Prix motor race held on the 108km Medio Circuito Madonie in Sicily, Italy on the 24th of April 1927. There were two separate races held simultaneously, one for up to 1100cc Cyclecars held over 3 laps for a total distance of 324km, and the main race for Formula Libre cars over 5 laps for a total distance of 540km. The Cyclecar race was won by Baconin Borzacchini driving a Salmson, while the main race was won by Emilio Materassi in his factory entered Bugatti.


1927 Targa Florio, Report
For 1927 entrants were divided into three classes based on engine capacity. Class I was for 1100cc Cyclecars , which would complete just 3 laps. Class II was for cars between 1100cc and 1500cc, and class III was for cars over 1500cc.


1927 Targa Florio, Report
Cars started one by one, with class II cars starting first, followed by class III, at four minute intervals, and finally the four class I cars, at two minute intervals. First to depart would have been Innocenzo Ciri but he had crashed in practice, so it was Sabipa who was first away. Sabipa didn't make it far, however, crashing into a ravine on his first lap. Antonio Caliri would also fail to finish the first lap, and the Diatto of Valdes had several issues.


1927 Targa Florio, Report
The top half of the field was quite close after the first lap, with less than five minutes separating the top 9: Ferdinando Minoia lead, in 1 hour 26 minutes and 30.6 seconds, from Dubonnet and Materassi, all in Bugattis. Elizabeth Junek, also in a Bugatti, impressed many finishing her first lap in fourth place, followed by Alfieri Maserati (in a Maserati), Boillot in the only Peugeot, Lepori, Conelli (both Bugattis) and Maggi in a Maserati. Ernesto Maserati closed out the top 10, another 3 and a half minutes behind. Baconin Borzacchini's Salmson lead the small cars by over five minutes in 13th overall.


1927 Targa Florio, Report
On the second lap two of the main contenders had to retire: Junek with a broken steering rod and Minoia with broken differential. Materassi drove the fastest lap of the race (1 hour 25 minutes 48.8) and took the lead, while Alfieri Maserati and Conelli also moved up the order to second and third respectively. Boillot struggled with a damaged exhaust releasing hot exhaust gases onto one tire, forcing him to stop twice to change wheels. Dubonnet also struggled with engine trouble. Borzacchini's lead in the 1100cc class had extended to nearly 7 minutes.


1927 Targa Florio, Report
On the third lap, Conelli was able to close in on Materassi thanks to a pit stop for the latter the gap under a minute after three laps. Alfieri Maserati wasn't far behind, while Lepori, Maggi and Boillot were still in contention. Ernesto Maserati had to retire with a broken axle. Borzacchini won the 1100cc race by over 11 minutes, and decided to keep going as he was now seventh overall, although nearly 30 minutes behind Materassi.


1927 Targa Florio, Report
Fagioli, also in a Salmson, was second in the 1100cc race, but had to push his car over the finish line due to a broken fuel pipe. During the fourth lap, it began to rain. Materassi was able to extend his lead to around five minutes on Conelli, and 10 minutes to Alfieri Maserati. Lepori broke a wheel in an accident, and although he was able to replace the wheel and make it back to the pits still in fourth place, he would retire. Maggi also crashed his Maserati, but much to the surprise of his team was able to get back to the pits, around an hour later than expected, where he too would retire. Borzacchini was unable to finish the race, with a valve failure shortly after starting his fifth lap.


1927 Targa Florio, Report
Conelli was the first car to finish the 5 laps, but was left to wait to see if he had won as Materassi had started 36 minutes after him. In the end Materassi would win by just three minutes. Alfieri Maserati lost time but held third followed by Boillot, while Joaquín Palacio was able to overtake Dubonnet for fifth place. Heinrich Eckert and Salvatore Marano both completed the full distance of five laps, but were not classified as they exceeded the maximum allowed time of 9 hours.


1927 Tempe State Bulldogs football team
The 1927 Tempe State Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Tempe State Teachers College (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Aaron McCreary, the Bulldogs compiled a 2–3–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 63 to 50. The team's games included a scoreless tie with UTEP and a 25–3 loss to Loyola Marymount. Bill Griffith was the team captain.


1927 Temple Owls football team
The 1927 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach Heinie Miller, the team compiled a 7–1 record. Fullback Harry Jacobs was the team captain.


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1927 Southern Conference football season. Playing as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his second year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. The 1927 Vols won eight, lost zero and tied one game (8–0–1 overall, 5–0–1 in the SoCon). The only blemish on Tennessee's schedule was a tie with in-state rival, Vanderbilt. Playing seven home games, the 1927 Vols outscored their opponents 246 to 26 and posted seven shutouts.


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season
Robert Neyland was hired to coach Tennessee in 1926 by Nathan Dougherty with the explicit goal to "even the score with Vanderbilt", and had his first great team in 1927.


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Carson–Newman
In the season opener, Tennessee beat in-state opponent Carson–Newman 33–0.


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, North Carolina
In the second week of play, Tennessee defeated UNC 26–0. The starting lineup was Lowe (left end), McArthur (left tackle), F. Johnson (left guard), Butcher (center), Burgers (right guard), Hundley (right tackle), Alley (right end), Elmore (quarterback), Derryberry (left halfback), Witt (right halfback), Dodson (fullback).


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Ole Miss
Tennessee had an easy 21–7 victory over the Ole Miss Rebels, weakening in the last quarter for the first touchdown scored on the Vols. Passes from  Witt and runs by Dodson got Tennessee's scores.


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Ole Miss
The starting lineup was McKeen (left end), McArthur (left tackle), Barnhill (left guard), Butcher (center), Tripp (right guard), Elliott (right tackle), Alley (right end), Elmore (quarterback), Derryberry (left halfback), Witt (right halfback), Dodson (fullback).


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Virginia
The Volunteers beat the Virginia Cavaliers 42–0. The starting lineup was McKeen (left end), McArthur (left tackle), Barnhill (left guard), Butcher (center), Tripp (right guard), Elliott (right tackle), Alley (right end), Elmore (quarterback), Derryberry (left halfback), Witt (right halfback), Dodson (fullback).


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Sewanee
Tennessee beat Sewanee 32–12. The starting lineup was McKeen (left end), McArthur (left tackle), Barnhill (left guard), Butcher (center), Tripp (right guard), H. Johnson (right tackle), Alley (right end), Tudor (quarterback), Derryberry (left halfback), Witt (right halfback), Dodson (fullback).


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt
McGugin's Commodores led 7–0 until a late Dick Dodson run tied the score. "After the game McGugin questioned each of his players as to his whereabouts during the run. Without exception the players claimed that two men had blocked them. McGugin shrugged. "Well, we'll just protest the play. It's perfectly obvious that Tennessee had twenty-two men on the field."


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt center Vernon Sharpe arguably had the better season, but was outperformed by Tennessee's Elvin Butcher. The starting lineup was McKeen (left end), McArthur (left tackle), Barnhill (left guard), Butcher (center), Tripp (right guard), H. Johnson (right tackle), Alley (right end), Elmore (quarterback), Derryberry (left halfback), Witt (right halfback), Dodson (fullback).


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Kentucky
To close the season, the Volunteers shutout the Kentucky Wildcats 20–0. The starting lineup was McKeen (left end), McArthur (left tackle), Barnhill (left guard), Butcher (center), Tripp (right guard), H. Johnson (right tackle), Alley (right end), Elmore (quarterback), Witt (left halfback), Derryberry (right halfback), Dodson (fullback).


1927 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Postseason
Coach Alexander of Tech wrote Neyland to accept a co-championship, and no Pickens Cup was awarded.


1927 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 1927 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M in the 1927 college football season. Although most selectors have named either Illinois or Georgia as the 1927 national champion, Texas A&M was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, Jeff Sagarin.


1927 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1927 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1927 college football season.


1927 Texas Mines Miners football team
The 1927 Texas Mines Miners football team was an American football team that represented Texas School of Mines (now known as the University of Texas at El Paso) as an independent during the 1927 college football season. Texas Mines hired E. J. Stewart as its coach for the 1927 season. Stewart had been the head football coach at the University of Texas from 1923 to 1926. In its first season under Stewart, the team compiled a 2–2–2 record and was outscored by a total of 78 to 69. The team won its annual rivalry game with New Mexico A&M by a 19-7 score.


1927 Texas Tech Matadors football team
The 1927 Texas Tech Matadors football team represented Texas Tech University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their third season under head coach Ewing Y. Freeland, the Matadors compiled a 5–4 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 134 to 100. The team played its home games at Tech Field.


1927 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
The 1927 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1927 college football season. Carl Prause served as head coach for the sixth season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The City of Charleston opened a new stadium for the 1927 season. The Bulldogs claimed their first win in the stadium over Oglethorpe on October 15, also the day the stadium was dedicated.


1927 Thuringian state election
The 1927 Thuringia state election was held on 30 January 1927 to elect the 56 members of the Landtag of Thuringia.


1927 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 1927 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 36th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.


1927 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Boherlahan won the championship after a 4–01 to 1–01 defeat of Clonoulty in the final. It was their eighth championship title overall and their first title since 1925.


1927 Toledo Rockets football team
The 1927 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented Toledo University (renamed the University of Toledo in 1967) during the 1927 college football season. Led by first-year coach Boni Petcoff, Toledo compiled a 5–2 overall record and 3–0 in conference play, earning the Northwest Ohio League championship.


1927 Toronto Argonauts season
The 1927 Toronto Argonauts season was the 41st season for the team since the franchise's inception in 1873. The team finished in third place in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union with a 2–3–1 record and failed to qualify for the playoffs.


1927 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season, Schedule
The Argonauts' home game on November 12 was played at Varsity Stadium.


1927 Toronto municipal election
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1927. Thomas Foster was running for his third consecutive term as mayor and won a narrow victory over Sam McBride. There were two referendums as part of the vote. Toronto voters voted in favour of adopting daylight saving time for the city. They also voted in favour of spending money to create an ornate gate at the entrance to the Exhibition Place, which became the Princes' Gates.


1927 Toronto municipal election, Toronto mayor
Thomas Foster had first been elected to city council in 1891 and was running for his third consecutive term as mayor. He was opposed by Sam McBride and labour candidate William D. Robbins. Foster was reelected by a narrow margin.


1927 Toronto municipal election, Board of Control
There was only one change in the membership of the Board of Control. Sam McBride chose to run for mayor, and the open seat was won by former Alderman Bert Wemp who had tried, but failed, to capture a board seat the year before.


1927 Toronto municipal election, City council
Results taken from the January 1, 1927 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.


1927 Tour de France
The 1927 Tour de France was the 21st edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 19 June to 17 July. It consisted of 24 stages over 5,398 km (3,354 mi).


1927 Tour de France
This tour featured the first win by Nicolas Frantz, a cyclist from Luxembourg. Frantz had come in second in the previous tour, and went on to win the tour in 1928 as well. It also showcased the debuts of André Leducq (4th) and Antonin Magne (6th), two French riders who would win the Tour de France in coming years.


1927 Tour de France
Because Tour director Henri Desgrange was dissatisfied with the tactics used in the long flat stages in the previous years, the individual team start format was introduced, similar to the later team time trial. In this concept, used in stages 1 to 9, 14 and 18 to 23, teams left fifteen minutes after each other. The concept did not make the race more interesting, so after the 1929 Tour de France, it was removed again.


1927 Tour de France, Innovations and changes
In 1926 and previous years, in the flat stages without mountains most cyclists finished together, and the winner was determined by a bunch sprint. The Tour organisation did not like this, because they wanted the cyclists to ride individually, and have a more spectacular race. For this reason, most of the flat stages in the 1927 Tour de France were started separately, with 15 minutes in between teams, and the touriste-routiers starting last. The idea was that the stars of the race could not see their rivals, and had no choice but to ride as fast as they could on every stage.


1927 Tour de France, Innovations and changes
In 1926, as an experiment the Tour started outside Paris, in the Alps. In 1927, this decision was reverted, and the Tour started again in Paris. The route of the 1927 Tour de France was similar to other Tours before 1926 that started in Paris, only some stages had been split, making the average stage shorter, from 338 km per stage in 1926 to 221 km per stage in 1927.


1927 Tour de France, Race overview
In the first stage, the Alcyon-team suffered twenty punctures. The Dilecta-Wolber team won the first stage, led by Francis Pélissier, who was the first leader of the general classification.


1927 Tour de France, Race overview
In the sixth stage, Francis Pélissier abandoned sick. His teammate Ferdinand Le Drogo became the new leader. In the seventh stage, Le Drogo was in the yellow jersey in the region where he was born. His supporters cheered for him, and he got excited and sped away from his teammates. That costed him too much energy, and he lost 20 minutes in that stage to the J.B. Louvet team, so the lead was transferred to Hector Martin, from the J.B. Louvet team.


1927 Tour de France, Race overview
In stage 8, the Dilecta team lost more than one hour, and they saw nothing left to win, and abandoned the race. At the end of stage 9, when the first group of team-time-trials stopped, there were only 57 cyclists left in the race, 35 of which were touriste-routiers, and only 22 had sponsors.


1927 Tour de France, Race overview
The first mountain stage was stage eleven. In that stage, touriste-routier Michele Gordini escaped secretly from the peloton. When the peloton found out he was away, he had already built a 45-minute advantage, and was the virtual leader of the race. Then he suffered from mechanical problems, and was passed before the end of the stage. Frantz won the stage, and took the yellow jersey.


1927 Tour de France, Race overview
In stages 12 and 13, Frantz finished in the leading group. Stage 14 was run in the team-time-trial format, and did not cause big changes in the general classification. Frantz then won the fifteenth stage and finished second in the sixteenth stage, and increased his lead to more than one hour. In the seventeenth stage, Frantz lost 15 minutes to second-placed Maurice De Waele, but because this was the last mountain stage, he had practically secured the victory.


1927 Tour de France, Race overview
The rest of the stages did not cause big changes in the general classification. The only exception was the 23rd stage, where De Waele lost more than half an hour, but his margin to the third-placed rider was large enough.


1927 Tour de France, Results
In stages 1 to 9 and 18 to 23, the cyclists started in teams, each 15 minutes apart; the touriste-routiers started last. The cyclist who reached the finish fastest was the winner of the stage. In stages 10 to 17, all cyclists started together. The time that each cyclist required to finish the stage was recorded. For the general classification, these times were added up; the cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey.


1927 Tour de France, Results, Other classifications
The organing newspaper, l'Auto named a meilleur grimpeur (best climber), an unofficial precursor to the modern King of the Mountains competition. This award was won by Michele Gordini.


1927 Tour de France, Aftermath
The experiment with the team-time-trial-like stages was not considered successful; the change did not have the effect that cyclists were riding more individually, but the stronger teams became even stronger. For the 1928 Tour de France, the system was used again, but in 1929 it was reduced to a few stages, and it disappeared completely in the 1930 Tour de France.


1927 Tour de France, Aftermath
The French cyclists had not been successful in the last Tours de France; they had their last overall victory in 1923, and 1926 did not even see a French stage victory. In 1927, the French cyclists had 5 stage victories, and two cyclists in the top ten: André Leducq and Antonin Magne. Leducq would later win the Tour de France in 1930 and 1932, while Magne would win the Tour de France in 1931 and 1934.


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12
The 1927 Tour de France was the 21st edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris with a team time trial on 19 June, and Stage 12 occurred on 2 July with a mountainous stage to Perpignan. The race finished in Paris on 17 July.


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 1
19 June 1927 - Paris to Dieppe, 180 km (110 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 2
20 June 1927 - Dieppe to Le Havre, 103 km (64 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 3
21 June 1927 - Le Havre to Caen, 225 km (140 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 4
22 June 1927 - Caen to Cherbourg, 140 km (87 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 5
23 June 1927 - Cherbourg to Dinan, 199 km (124 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 6
24 June 1927 - Dinan to Brest, 206 km (128 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 7
25 June 1927 - Brest to Vannes, 207 km (129 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 8
26 June 1927 - Vannes to Les Sables d'Olonne, 204 km (127 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 9
27 June 1927 - Les Sables d'Olonne to Bordeaux, 285 km (177 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 10
28 June 1927 - Bordeaux to Bayonne, 189 km (117 mi)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 11
30 June 1927 - Bayonne to Luchon, 326 km (203 mi)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 12, Stage 12
2 July 1927 - Luchon to Perpignan, 323 km (201 mi)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24
The 1927 Tour de France was the 21st edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris with a team time trial on 19 June, and Stage 13 occurred on 4 July with a flat stage from Perpignan. The race finished in Paris on 17 July.


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 13
4 July 1927 - Perpignan to Marseille, 360 km (220 mi)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 14
5 July 1927 - Marseille to Toulon, 120 km (75 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 15
6 July 1927 - Toulon to Nice, 220 km (140 mi)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 16
8 July 1927 - Nice to Briançon, 275 km (171 mi)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 17
9 July 1927 - Briançon to Evian, 283 km (176 mi)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 18
11 July 1927 - Evian to Pontarlier, 213 km (132 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 19
12 July 1927 - Pontarlier to Belfort, 119 km (74 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 20
13 July 1927 - Belfort to Strasbourg, 145 km (90 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 21
14 July 1927 - Strasbourg to Metz, 165 km (103 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 22
15 July 1927 - Metz to Charleville, 159 km (99 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 23
16 July 1927 - Charleville to Dunkerque, 270 km (170 mi) (TTT)


1927 Tour de France, Stage 13 to Stage 24, Stage 24
17 July 1927 - Dunkerque to Paris, 344 km (214 mi)


1927 Tour de Hongrie
The 1927 Tour de Hongrie was the third edition of the Tour de Hongrie cycle race and was held from 12 to 15 August 1927. The race started and finished in Budapest. The race was won by László Vida.


1927 Tour of the Basque Country
The 1927 Tour of the Basque Country was the fourth edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 10 August to 14 August 1927. The race started in Bilbao and finished in Las Arenas. The race was won by Victor Fontan.


1927 Tulane Green Wave football team
The 1927 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1927 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Bernie Bierman, the Green Wave played their home games at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. Tulane finished the season with an overall record of 2–5–1 and an identical mark in conference play.


1927 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1927 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1927 college football season. In their third year under head coach Gus Henderson, the Golden Hurricane compiled an 8–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 206 to 84.


1927 Turkish Football Championship
The 1927 Turkish Football Championship was the second edition of the competition. It was held in September. All matches were played at İstiklal Sahası in the capital Ankara. Muhafızgücü won their first and only championship title by defeating Altınordu 5–1 in the final. For Altınordu it was the first appearance in the final of the championship, with two more to follow in 1932 and 1935. Şekip Bey of Muhafızgücü, who scored three goals in the second half of the final, became the first player in Turkish football history to score a hat-trick in a national competition.


1927 Turkish Football Championship
The champions of the various regional championships qualified for the competition played in knock-out format.


1927 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey in 1927. The Republican People's Party ("Association for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia" until 9 September 1923) was the only party in the country at the time, as the Progressive Republican Party that had been set up in 1924 was dissolved the following year.


1927 Turkish general election, Electoral system
The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908, which provided for a two-stage process. In the first stage, voters elected secondary electors (one for the first 750 voters in a constituency, then one for every additional 500 voters). In the second stage the secondary electors elected the members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.


1927 Tuskegee Golden Tigers football team
The 1927 Tuskegee Golden Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Tuskegee University as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) during the 1927 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Cleveland Abbott, Tuskegee compiled a 10–0–1 record, won the SIAC championship, shut out eight of eleven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 264 to 31. The team was recognized as the black college national champion. The team played its home games at the Alumni Bowl in Tuskegee, Alabama.


1927 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
The 1927 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills in New York City, United States. The women's tournament was held from August 22 until August 30 while the men's tournament ran from 12 September until 17 September. It was the 47th staging of the U.S. National Championships and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of the year. This edition saw the introduction of seedings in the draw which were meant to prevent the best players from meeting each other in the early rounds of the tournament.


1927 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Champions, Men's doubles
Bill Tilden /  Frank Hunter defeated  Bill Johnston /  R. Norris Williams  10–8, 6–3, 6–3


1927 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Champions, Women's doubles
Kitty McKane Godfree /  Ermyntrude Harvey defeated  Betty Nuthall /  Joan Fry 6–1, 4–6, 6–4


1927 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Champions, Mixed doubles
Eileen Bennett /  Henri Cochet defeated  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman /  René Lacoste 6–2, 0–6, 6–3


1927 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles
René Lacoste defeated Bill Tilden 11–9, 6–3, 11–9 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1927 U.S. National Championships. It was Lacoste's second U.S. Championships title and his fifth Grand Slam title overall.


1927 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The tournament used two lists of eight players for seeding the men's singles event; one list of U.S. players and one for foreign players. René Lacoste is the champion; others show in brackets the round in which they were eliminated.


1927 U.S. National Championships – Women's Doubles
Elizabeth Ryan and Eleanor Goss were the defending women's doubles champions at the U.S. National Championships, but did not compete together. Ermyntrude Harvey and Kitty McKane Godfree defeated Joan Fry and Betty Nuthall in the final, 6–1, 4–6, 6–4.


1927 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded Helen Wills defeated Betty Nuthall 6–1, 6–4 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1927 U.S. National Championships. The event was held at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York City. It was Will's fourth U.S. National singles title, equaling the record set by Molla Bjurstedt. She won the title without losing a set and only lost 18 games in her six matches.


1927 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1927 U.S. Open was the 31st U.S. Open, held June 14–17 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. Tommy Armour defeated Harry Cooper in an 18-hole playoff to win the first of his three major titles.


1927 U.S. Open (golf)
The surprise second round leader was amateur Jimmy Johnston, who won the U.S. Amateur two years later in 1929. In the third round on Thursday morning, he suffered two double bogeys on the front-nine, carded an 87 (+15), and finished in 19th place. Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen, Bill Mehlhorn, and Emmet French were all in contention in the final round, but only French managed to break 40 on the back nine. Tommy Armour shot a final round 76 and 301 total, while Harry Cooper shot 77. Armour needed a 10-foot (3 m) putt for birdie on the par-4 18th to tie Cooper and force a playoff. Neither player managed to break par during any round in the tournament.


1927 U.S. Open (golf)
Both players were tied after nine holes of the Friday playoff, even though they only halved one hole. Cooper then took a two-shot lead, but an Armour birdie at 13 and a Cooper bogey at 15 brought the match to all square. On the 16th, Cooper found a bunker off the tee and recorded a double bogey, while Armour made par to gain a two-stroke advantage did not relinquish. Armour finished with a 76 to Cooper's 79.


1927 U.S. Open (golf)
Armour's winning score of 301 was the highest since 1919, and the last time the winning score exceeded 300 strokes. Only one round under 70 was recorded, Al Espinosa's 69 in the final round. After Armour, no foreign-born player won the U.S. Open for another 38 years, until Gary Player in 1965. England's Ted Ray, the 1920 champion, played in his first Open since his win; it would also be his last. The 12th hole at Oakmont measured 621 yards (568 m), the longest in U.S. Open history until 1955.


1927 U.S. Open (golf)
While Armour won two more majors, Cooper never won one. His 31 PGA Tour victories are the most by a player without a major win, and he is often cited as the "best player to never win a major."


1927 U.S. Open (golf)
Defending champion Bobby Jones and Eddie Jones shared low-amateur honors and tied for eleventh. It was the only time in his eleven U.S. Open appearances that Bobby Jones finished outside the top ten.


1927 U.S. Open (golf)
This was the first U.S. Open held at Oakmont, which hosted its ninth in 2016. It has also hosted three PGA Championships; the first in 1922 was a match play event won by Gene Sarazen.


1927 U.S. Open (golf)
This was the last U.S. Open to commence on Tuesday; the following year the first round was scheduled for Thursday.


1927 UCI Road World Championships
The 1927 UCI Road World Championships took place in Nürburgring, Germany.


1927 UCI Road World Championships
Professional and amateur riders rode together (33 of the starters were amateurs). 55 riders started, 18 classified finishers, 182.5 km, winner's average speed 27.55 km/hr


1927 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The men's road race at the 1927 UCI Road World Championships was the inaugural edition of the professional event. The race took place on Thursday 21 July 1927 in Adenau, Germany. The race was won by Alfredo Binda of Italy.


1927 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1927 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Cologne and Elberfeld, Germany from 17–24 July 1927. Three events for men were contested, two for professionals and one for amateurs.


1927 UCLA Grizzlies football team
The 1927 UCLA Grizzlies football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) during the 1927 college football season. In their third year under head coach William H. Spaulding, the Grizzlies compiled a 6–2–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 144 to 54.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the second year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Greyhound Racing Association
The GRA acquired the near-derelict White City Stadium, (originally The Great Stadium), that had been built in 1908 for the Summer Olympics. The White City track was grassed over and Major Percy Brown was installed as Racing Manager. On 20 June, a greyhound called Charlie Cranston won the first ever race there and with club house accommodation for over 1,000 people, and a 500-yard track circumference with wide sweeping turns and fast times the venue was an immediate hit with the public. Early visitors included Edward VIII and Prince George, later King George VI. The GRA also moved its headquarters to White City Stadium from Belle Vue Stadium at the same time.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Greyhound Racing Association
Harringay Stadium was the third greyhound racing stadium to be bought by the GRA. It was constructed by Messers T.G. Simpson of Victoria Street, London, at a cost of £35,000. The 23-acre site was formerly the Williamson's Pottery Works from the late 18th century through to the early 1900s. On completion the stadium had a capacity of 50,000. When it opened on the 13 September it was originally called Harringay Park.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Greyhound Racing Association
The GRA's finances were helped with the use of a sophisticated automatic totalisator betting system. By the end of the year GRA had ownership or shares in no less than 19 tracks that were already operating or due to open in the near future. Two of the planned tracks failed to go ahead. Despite the trustees allowing the Crystal Palace site to be used for greyhound racing it never got off the ground. A Protestant church petition of 43,434 signatures helped the National Anti- Gambling League prosecute the trustees and the racing proposals failed.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Greyhound Racing Association
In addition the £60,000 proposal for the Isle of Man race track, at Onchan Head Bay, with a bathing pool and changing facilities failed. A bill was put before Tynwald (Isle of Man parliament) to prohibit betting and gaming except on the existing horse racing activities and it was passed. The 17 tracks remaining was a remarkable achievement due to the fact that GRA had only come into existence as a company the previous year. Other companies began to rival the GRA and there were well publicised disputes between the GRA and these companies. A National board of control of canine and greyhound racing held a meeting in Manchester to form a control board for greyhound racing (a short lived organisation for tracks outside of the GRA).


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Ireland and Scotland
Ireland had been a hot bed of coursing for many years and was also subjected to the new version of track racing. A greyhound called Mick the Miller had been born in June 1926 and the brindle dog was named after Michael Greene, who was the odd-job man at the vicarage and Millbrook house where the dog was born and raised. One of his duties was looking after the dog and the other eleven in the litter when they were puppies. Bred by a parish priest called Father Martin Brophy, Mick the Miller was sent coursing and was actually beaten in his first course against a greyhound called Hidden Jew.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Ireland and Scotland
A quartet of Irish enthusiasts Hugh McAlinden, Joe Shaw, Jim Clarke and Paddy O'Donoghue introduced track racing to Ireland at Celtic Park in Belfast when the first Irish track was built and opened on 18 April. This was followed by Shelbourne Park in Dublin one month later on the 14 May. Shelbourne employed four track trainers in their kennels, Mick Horan, Paddy Quigley, Billy Donoghue and Ben Scally. Scotland opened Powderhall Stadium (North Edinburgh) located in Beaverhall Road on 3 August. This was a track with easy bends and long straights and over 10,000 attended the first meeting.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Competitions
The GRA introduced the first major races to be held on an annual basis, including 1927 English Greyhound Derby held at White City. They also created the Champion Hurdle (later to be named the Grand National) for hurdlers and the Oaks for bitches (both at White City), these races were named after the big horse races. Belle Vue introduced the Northern Flat as their first major event. The meetings at the tracks would be managed by the Racing Manager and stewards who would normally be selected from prominent military backgrounds.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Competitions
In addition the GRA purchased the Hook estate at Northaw, 13 miles from the centre of London. It was the base for GRA trainers to train greyhounds for White City and Harringay and later other London tracks. The 140 acres of park and grassland would become famous within the industry. The estate at this time was solely for racing hounds and puppies over nine months old and could house 600 dogs. The pups under nine months were reared under the supervision of William Skerratt on farms in and around Blythe Bridge near Stoke-on-Trent before graduating to Northaw.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Wembley
Wembley Greyhounds opened on the 10 December and although the venue will forever be known for football, the irony is that it was greyhound racing that had kept the stadium afloat in its early days. The stadium on the verge of bankruptcy and closure was bought by Arthur Elvin who brought in greyhound racing which saved the stadium from being demolished. Elvin had secured Wembley Stadium by putting a 10% deposit down for a total of £122,500.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, Wembley
He had originally won the contract to demolish the site for owner James White who died shortly after leaving the stadium in the hands of the receivers; Elvin set up a new company and he became the Managing Director. The Director of Racing was Captain Arthur Brice, a well known judge at the Waterloo Cup. On the 30 December the National Greyhound Racing Society (NGRS) was formed to represent the commercial interests of the racecourse promoters.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, News
Bookmaker Joe Coral took a pitch at Harringay and then White City; the Coral Empire was born and would go via Clapton and Walthamstow greyhounds before branching into betting offices.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, News
In the Oaks heats were held at various tracks within the GRA with the winner representing the track in the Grand Final at White City. The home representative Peach Blossom II started as hot favourite after taking the White City qualifying final two days previous in a smart 29.58. However it was the Harringay hound Three of Spades that took the honours defeating the Scottish challenger by two lengths.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary, News
Although Bonzo is listed as winner of the first Grand National in 1927, the title of the event he won was the Champion Hurdle Race, the culmination of a competition organised by the GRA on the same lines as the inaugural Derby. A North vs. South affair, restricted to greyhounds racing on tracks owned by the company. Northern zone dogs, from Belle Vue, Liverpool and Powderhall, took part in a qualifying competition called the Westmorland Cup, while their Southern counterparts at Hall Green, Harringay and White City were sorted out in the Chesham Hurdle. Jumps races on GRA tracks were then confined to four runners, so only the first two qualified for the final.


1927 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Roll of honour, Principal UK races
NoteDistances were recorded as 0.06 sec for one length (until 1950) and in Ireland 0.07 sec for one length (until 1990).


1927 USC Trojans football team
The 1927 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1927 college football season. In their third year under head coach Howard Jones, the Trojans compiled an 8–1–1 record (4–0–1 against conference opponents), tied with Stanford and Idaho for the Pacific Coast Conference championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 287 to 64. The season featured the first game in the Notre Dame–USC football rivalry; Notre Dame won by a 13 to 12 score in Los Angeles.


1927 USSR Chess Championship
The 1927 USSR Chess Championship was the fifth edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 26 September to 25 October in Moscow. Fedir Bohatyrchuk and Peter Romanovsky were declared champions, since a tie-break match cannot be scheduled. An indication of the enhanced prestige of chess ins Soviet Union was the championship venue, the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions, one of the most eminent locations in the country. That edition also featured the debut of the future world chess champion and 16 year old young talent Mikhail Botvinnik.


1927 United States House of Representatives elections
There were five special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1927 during the 70th United States Congress.


1927 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1927, in three states. Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi hold their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year.


1927 United States gubernatorial elections, Notes
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1927 Uruguayan Primera División
The Uruguayan Championship 1927 was the 25th season of Uruguay's top-flight professional football league.


1927 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
After two years without an official tournament (1925 and 1926), the 1927 tournament reunited the two associations that divided the Uruguayan football after the schism of 1922. It consisted of a two-wheel championship of all against all. It was attended by 20 teams, with the tournament with the most participants in history. The winner was Rampla Juniors, crowned Uruguayan champion for the first and only time in their history.


1927 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1927 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1927 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Dick Romney, the Aggies compiled a 3–4–1 record (3–3–1 against RMC opponents), finished fourth in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 129 to 53.


1927 Utah Utes football team
The 1927 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah during the 1927 college football season. 1927 was the first year Utah played in Ute Stadium. Although the name has changed and there have been several renovations, the Utes have played in the same location since 1927. The stadium debuted with a 40–6 defeat of Colorado Mines on October 1, 1927.


1927 VFA season
The 1927 Victorian Football Association season was the 49th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Coburg Football Club, after it defeated Brighton by 34 points in the Grand Final on 15 October. It was the club's second VFA premiership, achieved in only its third season of senior competition, and was the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1926 until 1928; and, it came after the team was undefeated in the home-and-home season.


1927 VFA season, Association membership
In the off-season, the Brunswick Football Club was re-admitted to the Association, after having withdrawn from the competition in late 1926 in protest at suspensions given to two of its players. As such, the Association membership remained the same as it had been at the start of 1926.


1927 VFA season, Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.


1927 VFL Grand Final
The 1927 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 1 October 1927. It was the season's grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1927 VFL season.


1927 VFL Grand Final, Background
Before the 1927 season, Collingwood had last won a premiership in 1919, and had suffered grand finals losses in 1920, 1922, 1925 & 1926. Great dissatisfaction brewed amongst the supporters, and at a meeting at the Collingwood Town Hall in March 1927 the committee was put under enormous pressure to end the seven-year premiership drought. In a remarkable response, the committee sacked the in-form Charlie Tyson as captain and player, and gave the captaincy to Syd Coventry. Coventry went on to win the 1927 Brownlow Medal and the inaugural Copeland Trophy.


1927 VFL Grand Final, Background
In the 1927 home-and-away season Collingwood had won 15 of its 18 matches to finish top of the table, with Richmond next, a game behind. Geelong and Carlton made up the four. In the semi-finals, Richmond had narrowly beaten Carlton, while Collingwood comfortably defeated Geelong by 66 points, and went into the match as favourites.


1927 VFL Grand Final, Background, Right to challenge
This season was played under the amended Argus system. If Richmond had won this match, Collingwood would have had the right to challenge Richmond to a rematch for the premiership on the following weekend, because Collingwood was the minor premier. The winner of that match would then have won the premiership.


1927 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
Torrential rain and freezing winds before and during the match made for atrocious conditions on the day. While Richmond tried to pick up the ball, Collingwood followed the instructions of coach Jock McHale by "marking on the chest, not out in front" and "kicking the ball off the ground wherever possible". With Syd Coventry impassable in defence, Gordon Coventry booted two goals in the 2nd quarter to take his season tally to 97 and have Collingwood lead by 14 points at half time. Both goals came from mistakes by the Richmond backmen.


1927 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
In the 3rd quarter, Richmond responded with a fierce attack on the football and the man, with Collingwood's Syd Coventry, Beveridge and Rumney all knocked out in the opening minutes, but the Tigers could not convert the effort into a score, and the Magpies maintained their 14-point margin at 3-quarter time. Richmond's Fincher scored a goal early in the last quarter but the Collingwood defence held, with the Magpies winning by 12 points at the final bell.


1927 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
The game's aggregate score of 3.20 (38) was the lowest-scoring game in the VFL since Round 6 1900, and is the lowest in any VFL/AFL grand final, the equal 11th lowest-scoring game in VFL/AFL history, and the lowest-scoring game (grand final or otherwise) in the 20th century or the 21st century.


1927 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
Collingwood's 2.13 (25) is the lowest winning score in a grand final, and Richmond's 1.7 (13) is the lowest score in a grand final.


1927 VFL Grand Final, "The Machine"
The 1927 flag was Collingwood's sixth premiership victory, they went on to win the next three grand finals. In winning four premierships in a row from 1927–1930 they set a record that has not been equaled to date. The teams from this era became known as "The Machine" for the teamwork, efficiency and effectiveness with which they played.


1927 VFL season
The 1927 Victorian Football League season was the 31st season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1927 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.


1927 VFL season, Premiership season
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 17 were the "home-and-away reverse" of matches 1 to 6, and match 18 the "home-and-away reverse" of match 11.


1927 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1927 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".


1927 VFL season, Finals
All of the 1927 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.


1927 VFL season, Grand final
Collingwood defeated Richmond 2.13 (25) to 1.7 (13), in front of a crowd of 34,511 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


1927 VPI Gobblers football team
The 1927 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1927 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Andy Gustafson and finished with a record of five wins and four losses (5–4).


1927 VPI Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1927 football team according to the roster published in the 1928 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1927 Southern Conference football season. The 1927 season was Dan McGugin's 23rd year as head coach. Running back Jimmy Armistead led the nation in scoring in 1927 with 138 points. The team's quarterback was Bill Spears. One fellow wrote Vanderbilt produced "almost certainly the legit top Heisman candidate in Spears, if there had been a Heisman Trophy to award in 1927."


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Chattanooga
Vanderbilt started the season with a 45–18 victory over Chattanooga. Chattanooga did not lose another game and was champion of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Ouachita
In the second week of play, Ouachita was defeated 39–10.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Texas
In Dallas, the Commodores suffered the season's only loss to Texas Longhorns 13–6. Texas scored on a 20-yard pass from Baldwin to Ford, and on a run from Baldwin. Vanderbilt's lone score came on a 16-yard pass to Owens. Spears fought three Texans as he threw the pass.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Texas
The starting lineup was Kelly (left end), Lusky (left tackle), Cecil (left guard), V. Sharpe (center), Oliver (right guard), Abernathy (right tackle), Creson (right end), Spears (quarterback), McIlwain (left halfback), Owen (right halfback), Armistead (fullback).


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tulane
Bernie Bierman thought of ditching his single-wingback formation after the 32–0 win over Tulane, and was convinced to keep it by McGugin.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tulane
The starting lineup was Abernathy (left end), Hawkins (left tackle), Kelly (left guard), V. Sharpe (center), Cecil (right guard), Lusky (right tackle), Creson (right end), Spears (quarterback), Owen (left halfback), McIlwain (right halfback), Armistead (fullback).


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Kentucky
Kentucky was beaten  34–6 . The starting lineup was James (left end), Hawkins (left tackle), Kelly (left guard), Oliver (center), Cecil (right guard), Lusky (right tackle), Creson (right end), Spears (quarterback), Owen (left halfback), McIlwain (right halfback), Armistead (fullback).


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech
A wet field and a strong defense, ranked by one researcher as best in the South, helped Georgia Tech reassert itself and hold Vanderbilt to a scoreless tie, despite the Commodores having the upper hand in play. A strong game had been predicted, showcasing each team's backfield stars in Stumpy Thomason of Tech and Bill Spears of Vanderbilt. Vernon Sharpe suffered a knee injury before the game.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech
The starting lineup was Abernathy (left end), Hawkins (left tackle), Kelly (left guard), V. Sharpe (center), Cecil (right guard), Lusky (right tackle), Creson (right end), Spears (quarterback), Owen (left halfback), McIlwain (right halfback), Armistead (fullback)


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee
Robert Neyland was hired to coach Tennessee in 1926 by Nathan Dougherty with the explicit goal to "even the score with Vanderbilt", and had his first great team in 1927. McGugin's Commodores led 7–0 until a late Dick Dodson run tied the score. "After the game McGugin questioned each of his players as to his whereabouts during the run. Without exception the players claimed that two men had blocked them. McGugin shrugged. "Well, we'll just protest the play. It's perfectly obvious that Tennessee had twenty-two men on the field."


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee
Vanderbilt center Vernon Sharpe arguably had the better season, but was outperformed by Tennessee's Elvin Butcher.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee
The starting lineup was Abernathy (left end), Hawkins (left tackle), James (left guard), V. Sharpe (center), Cecil (right guard), Lusky (right tackle), Creson (right end), Spears (quarterback), Owen (left halfback), McIlwain (right halfback), Armistead (fullback).


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Maryland
Spears played only in the first half in the 39–20 win over Maryland, but completed 10 of 12 passes.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee
Vanderbilt defeated Sewanee 26–6. The starting lineup was Abernathy (left end), Hawkins (left tackle), Oliver (left guard), V. Sharpe (center), Cecil (right guard), Lusky (right tackle), Creson (right end), Owen (quarterback), McIlwain (left halfback), Sims (right halfback), Armistead (fullback).


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Alabama
The Commodores faced Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide in the season finale. Spears gained more than the entire Alabama backfield as the Commodores won 14–7. The highlight of Vanderbilt's first scoring drive was a pass from Spears to Armistead of 20 yards, down to the 3-yard line, from which Armistead later ran it in. On Alabama's scoring drive, Red Brown ran 23 yards on a reverse, down to the 4-yard line. Tony Holm eventually got the score.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Alabama
In the fourth quarter, Spears led the winning drive, once circling end for 34 yards, tackling by Starling just as he seemed to break free. He then passed to Larry Creson for 10 yards, ran for 6, and then 13 more around end to the 16-yard line. After Spears and Armistead worked it down to the 9-yard line, a pass to Roy Gibson got the touchdown.


1927 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Postseason
Spears passed for 1,207 yards and 9 touchdowns. An all-senior football team at the end of the year used Vandy's offensive system.


1927 Vermont Catamounts football team
The 1927 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their third year under head coach William McAvoy, the team compiled a 2–6 record.


1927 Victorian state election
The 1927 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday, 9 April 1927, to elect the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.


1927 Victorian state election
For the first time, a Victorian state election was held on a Saturday, and voting for the Legislative Assembly was compulsory. As a consequence, voter turnout in contested seats increased from 59.24% at the 1924 election to 91.76% at the 1927 election, although the informal vote increased from 1.01% in 1924 to 1.94% in 1927.


1927 Victorian state election, Outcome
The Allan Country–Nationalist Coalition Government was defeated, and a minority Labor Government, led by Edmund Hogan, took office, but had to resign following a vote of no confidence in the Legislative Assembly in November 1928.


1927 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1927 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1927 college football season. The head coach was Harry Stuhldreher, coaching his third season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1927 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1927 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia during the 1927 Southern Conference football season.


1927 Volta a Catalunya
The 1927 Volta a Catalunya was the ninth edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 28 August to 4 September 1927. The race started and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by Victor Fontan.


1927 WAFL season
The 1927 WAFL season was the 43rd season of the West Australian Football League. It saw the last premiership of the East Perth dynasty dating back to the end of World War I, as mastermind coach Phil Matson was to be killed in a truck crash the following year and the Royals were to fall to a clear last in 1929 as most of their champions retired. Despite opening their permanent home ground at Claremont Oval, newcomers Claremont-Cottesloe showed little improvement on their debut season and again won only a single game. The most notable change in fortunes was from South Fremantle, who had their first season with more wins than losses since their last premiership in 1917, and extended Matson's Royals in the grand final.


1927 WAFL season
VFL champions Collingwood became the second Victoria club to tour Perth after Fitzroy in 1922, and although an interstate carnival meant they were without several top players, the Magpies performed well enough to win one of their two matches against a representative team from those WAFL players not at the carnival.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 2
Claremont Oval is opened for WAFL football in the fledgling club’s second season, but the local team is thrashed by a systematic Old Easts combination.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 3
In heavy rain, East Fremantle are unexpectedly thrashed by South Fremantle, with Sol Lawn and Campbell outstanding up forward.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 4
For the first time in WAFL history, both teams score 100 points in a match, but Subiaco, coming off the bye, come back to scrape home despite being without key defenders Hamilton and Brophy.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 7
Sol Lawn kicks nine goals for South Fremantle, who are joined by Old Easts on top after Perth score only 1.2 (8) in the second half.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 8
In wet conditions, eight goals by Evans gives Perth the game and keeps them within percentage of their first finals berth since 1920.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 10
West Perth, finalists in 1926, return to that season’s form after winning only one of their first eight matches, defeating the reigning premiers in slippery conditions.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 11
Claremont-Cottesloe, who had surprised Subiaco at their previous meeting only to lose narrowly, win their second WAFL match by making use of a violent wind in the first quarter and holding the Maroons in the second.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 12
With Campbell kicking seven goals, East Perth move to equal top position as the Cardinals continue their revival, defeating a seventeen-man South Fremantle team.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 14
Following this round, WAFL football was suspended for an interstate match in Adelaide.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 15
Following Perth’s win over the Cardinals, umpire Les Trotter was attacked physically by an angry spectator who failed to get the better of him, and police were required to break up the fight. The WAFL did not take further actions.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 16
In difficult conditions on a wet and boisterous day, regular Maroon ruckman Outridge is a match-winner in attack with seven goals.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 18
With all clubs depleted by Carnival commitments, the standard of play is regarded as poor, but East Perth, without eight regulars but with veterans "Digger" Thomas and Brentnall the best players afield, virtually seal the minor premiership with three rounds to play.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Collingwood Tour, First State Match
Despite the absence of Syd and Gordon Coventry, Collingwood demonstrate their power with a convincing victory in tough conditions.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Collingwood Tour, Second State Match
The local team, with a number of changes, gains revenge for its mid-week defeat.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 19
Perth fall from second to fifth with their loss on a waterlogged WACA.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 20
East Fremantle’s thrilling fight to hold of Subiaco in front of a large crowd and Perth’s loss virtually seals the top four with South playing Claremont-Cottesloe.


1927 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 21
Perth’s 10.3 (63) first quarter was the highest in the WAFL to that point and ended the most recent run of over 100 games conceding under 100 points.


1927 WAFL season, Finals, First semi-final
South Fremantle come back to win a high-standard match with four goals in the last sixteen minutes.


1927 WAFL season, Finals, Second semi-final
An eagerly awaited match proves disappointing as East Perth have no trouble winning.


1927 WAFL season, Finals, Final
South Fremantle force a challenge final with their ruck superiority led by the unheralded Sunderland, Fuhrmann and Holt.


1927 WAFL season, Finals, Grand Final
East Perth rebound to win their seventh flag in nine seasons, and the last before Matson’s death and the retirement of longstanding stars ends a dynasty.


1927 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1927 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1927 college football season. In its second season under head coach James A. Baldwin, the team compiled a 2–6–2 record.


1927 Warringah by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Warringah on 21 May 1927. This was triggered by the resignation of Nationalist MP Sir Granville Ryrie to become Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.


1927 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team
The 1927 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1927 college football season. The team compiled a 7–0–2 record. Andrew Kerr was the head coach.


1927 Washington Huskies football team
The 1927 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1927 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Enoch Bagshaw, the team compiled a 9–2 record, finished in fourth place in the Pacific Coast Conference, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 287 to 59. Earl Wilson was the team captain.


1927 Washington Senators season
The 1927 Washington Senators won 85 games, lost 69, and finished in third place in the American League. They were managed by Bucky Harris and played home games at Griffith Stadium.


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


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


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


1927 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1927 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State College during the 1927 college football season. Head coach Babe Hollingbery led the team to a 1–3–1 mark in the PCC and 3–3–2 overall.


1927 Washington State Cougars football team
During the Homecoming tie against Palouse neighbor Idaho on Friday, November 11, Governor Roland Hartley presented a cougar cub to the WSC students. The cub was originally to be called "Governor Hartley," in honor of its donor. The governor gracefully declined and suggested the name "Butch," in honor of senior quarterback Herbert "Butch" Meeker of Spokane.


1927 Washington University Bears football team
The 1927 Washington University Pikers football team was an American football team that represented Washington University of St. Louis as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1927 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach Bob Higgins, the team compiled a 5–2–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 98 to 70. The team played its home games at Francis Field in St. Louis.


1927 Washington and Lee Generals football team
The 1927 Washington and Lee Generals football team represented Washington and Lee University during the 1927 college football season.


1927 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 1927 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 27th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.


1927 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
Erin's Own won the championship after an 8-02 to 0-05 defeat of Dungarvan in the final. This was their first ever championship title.


1927 Wellington City mayoral election
The 1927 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1927, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.


1927 Wesley Wildcats football team
The 1927 Wesley Wildcats football team represented Wesley Collegiate Institute (later known as Wesley College) in the 1927 college football season as an independent. Led by coach Josh S. Faulkner his second year, the Wildcats compiled a 6–1 record.


1927 West Tennessee State Teachers football team
The 1927 West Tennessee State Teachers football team was an American football team that represented West Tennessee State Teachers College (now known as the University of Memphis) as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Zach Curlin, West Tennessee State Teachers compiled a 5–3–1 record.


1927 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1927 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach Ira Rodgers, the team compiled a 2–4–3 record and was outscored by a total of 129 to 68. The team played its home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. Winchester Latham was the team captain.


1927 Westbury by-election
The Westbury by-election, 1927 was a by-election held on 16 June 1927 for the British House of Commons constituency of Westbury.


1927 Westbury by-election, Vacancy
The Unionist MP, Walter William Shaw died on 10 May 1927 at the age of 58. He had been MP here since the last General election, when he gained the seat from the Liberal;


1927 Westbury by-election, History
In the 13 elections since the constituency was created in 1885, the Unionists had won only three times to the Liberals ten times. The Labour Party first contested the seat in 1918 and then at every election since. In every one of the four elections since 1918, the winner was elected with a minority of the vote, with Labour finishing third every time. So the constituency could be described as a Unionist/Liberal marginal.


1927 Westbury by-election, Candidates
The Unionists chose Maj. Eric Long to defend the seat. He was the 35-year-old son of former Unionist leader  Walter Long. The previous Liberal MP, Charles Darbishire who was the Liberal candidate last time, had died in 1925. The local Liberals had not got around to selecting a replacement until the by-election occurred. They settled on 34-year-old Harcourt Johnstone, a former Liberal MP for Willesden East who had been defeated at the last General Election. Johnstone was related to former Liberal leader William Harcourt.


1927 Westbury by-election, Candidates
Johnstone first tried to re-enter parliament at the 1925 Eastbourne by-election but finished second in this safe Unionist seat. The Labour candidate was George Ward, who had contested the seat at the previous three elections, never polling more than a fifth of the vote. He was a local Justice of the Peace and worked as a railway signalman.


1927 Westbury by-election, Aftermath
All three candidates again faced each other at the following General Election, with a similar result;


1927 Westbury by-election, Aftermath
Johnstone was eventually to return to the house in 1931 as Liberal MP for South Shields.


1927 Western Australian state election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 March 1927 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The incumbent Labor Party government, led by Premier Philip Collier, won a second term in government against the United-Country opposition, led by Opposition Leader James Mitchell.


1927 Western Australian state election, Results
Western Australian state election, 26 March 1927Legislative Assembly << 1924–1930 >>


1927 Western State Hilltoppers football team
The 1927 Western State Hilltoppers football team represented Western State Normal School (later renamed Western Michigan University) as an independent during the 1927 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Earl Martineau, the Hilltoppers compiled a 3–4 record and outscored their opponents, 100 to 72. Halfback/center George Fulgoni was the team captain.


1927 Wightman Cup
The 1927 Wightman Cup was the fifth edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens in New York City, NY in the United States.


1927 William & Mary Indians football team
The 1927 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Virginia Conference during  the 1927 college football season. Led by J. Wilder Tasker in his fifth and final year as head coach, 4–5–1 compiled an overall record of 4–5–1.


1927 Wimbledon Championships
The 1927 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 20 June until Saturday 2 July 1927. It was the 47th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1927.


1927 Wimbledon Championships
This was the first Wimbledon Championships where the draw used a merit-based seeding of ranked players to prevent the top players from meeting each other in the early rounds. Eight players were seeded in both the men's and women's singles and four pairs in the double. The seeding was done according to the ranking of the players in their own countries. René Lacoste and Helen Wills were the first no.1 seeded singles players. Since the 1924 Championships a seeding based on nationality was used to prevent nominated players from the same nationality to meet before the later rounds.


1927 Wimbledon Championships
Another innovation that year was the installation of a microphone and loudspeakers on Centre Court to broadcast the calls of the umpire. A special footfault judge was introduced for the centre court and court no.1. The BBC first began radio broadcast of the tournament this year, with the first radio broadcast taking place on 29 June and diffused on 2LO. Only matches on Centre Court were covered in the first year, with Teddy Wakelam providing commentary for the BBC.


1927 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Men's Singles
Henri Cochet defeated  Jean Borotra, 4–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5


1927 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Men's Doubles
Frank Hunter /  Bill Tilden defeated  Jacques Brugnon /  Henri Cochet, 1–6, 4–6, 8–6, 6–3, 6–4


1927 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Women's Doubles
Elizabeth Ryan /  Helen Wills defeated  Bobbie Heine /  Irene Peacock, 6–3, 6–2


1927 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Mixed Doubles
Frank Hunter /  Elizabeth Ryan defeated  Leslie Godfree /  Kitty Godfree, 8–6, 6–0


1927 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Frank Hunter and Bill Tilden defeated defending champions Jacques Brugnon and Henri Cochet in the final, 1–6, 4–6, 8–6, 6–3, 6–4 to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1927 Wimbledon Championship.


1927 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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1927 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Henri Cochet defeated the defending champion Jean Borotra in the final, 4–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1927 Wimbledon Championships. Cochet became the first player to win three consecutive Grand Slam matches from two sets down, a record that was not matched until Tommy Robredo did the same at the French Open in 2013.


1927 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Sidney Wood became the youngest competitor in the Men's Singles at Wimbledon at 15 years 231 days when he was defeated by René Lacoste in the first round. George Greville has been the oldest singles player in Wimbledon history, was aged 59 when he lost in the first round of the tournament.


1927 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
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1927 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Frank Hunter and Elizabeth Ryan defeated the defending champions Leslie Godfree and Kitty Godfree in the final, 8–6, 6–0 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1927 Wimbledon Championships.


1927 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
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1927 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Mary Browne and Elizabeth Ryan were the defending champions, but Browne did not participate. Ryan partnered with Helen Wills, and defeated Bobbie Heine and Irene Peacock in the final, 6–3, 6–2 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1927 Wimbledon Championships.


1927 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
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1927 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded Helen Wills defeated Lilí de Álvarez 6–2, 6–4 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1927 Wimbledon Championships.


1927 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Kitty Godfree was the defending champion, but lost to Elizabeth Ryan in the quarterfinals.


1927 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
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1927 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1927 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1927 Big Ten Conference football season. The team compiled a 4–4 record (1–4 against conference opponents), finished in a tie for last place in the Big Ten Conference, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 96 to 75. Glenn Thistlethwaite was in his first year as Wisconsin's head coach.


1927 Wisconsin Badgers football team
Halfback Ed Crofoot was selected as the team's most valuable player, the team captain, and a first-team player on the 1927 All-Big Ten Conference football team. Other notable players included halfback Gene H. Rose, end Don Cameron, and tackle Stanley Binish.


1927 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The team played its home games at Camp Randall Stadium, which had a capacity of 38,293. During the 1927 season, the average attendance at home games was 18,512.


1927 Wisła Kraków season
The 1927 season was Wisła Kraków's 19th year as a club.


1927 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1927 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington in London from 28 November - 4 December 1926. Cecily Fenwick won her second successive title defeating Nancy Cave in a repeat of the 1926 final. This championship was held during 1926 but in the 1926/27 season so is attributed as being the 1927 event. Joyce Cave was still unable to compete due to a wrist injury.


1927 World Fencing Championships
The 1927 World Fencing Championships were held in Vichy, France.


1927 World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.


1927 World Figure Skating Championships
Men's competitions took place from February 5th to 6th in Davos, Switzerland. Ladies' competitions took place from February 19th to 20th in Oslo, Norway. Pairs' competitions took place from February 22nd to 23rd in Vienna, Austria.


1927 World Figure Skating Championships, Results, Ladies
Szabo retired after she was defeated by Sonja Henie of Norway. This result was controversial because the judging panel consisted of three Norwegians, a German, and an Austrian. The three Norwegian judges placed Henie first, while the German and Austrian judges placed Szabo first.


1927 World Series
In the 1927 World Series, the New York Yankees won, sweeping the Pittsburgh Pirates in four games. This was the first sweep of a National League team by an American League team.


1927 World Series
That year, the Yankees led the American League in runs scored, hits, triples, home runs, base on balls, batting average, slugging average and on-base percentage. It featured legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig at their peaks. The team won a then-league record 110 games, finished with a 19-game lead over second place, and are considered by many to be the greatest team in the history of baseball.


1927 World Series
The 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates, with MVP Paul Waner, led the National League in runs, hits, batting average and on-base percentage.