Will Beatty would not be ready for full contact this season. He was placed on the injured reserve on November 30 with the Giants record being 6-5. The Giants won the Super Bowl this season. Beatty became the first Connecticut football player to win an NFL Super Bowl. In the offseason, during a lifting session, Beatty disrupted the sciatic nerve in his back. The nerve injury sidelined Beatty from OTA's. While allowing his Sciatic nerve to fully heal, Beatty sat out the majority of the pre-season. Due to the detached retina he sustained in the previous season, Beatty received a new helmet,
Guy Beatty to major general, and restored to full pay in August 1927. He then began a four-year tour as the Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian State Forces. At the end of which he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, just before retiring from the army on 20 June 1931. His final military appointment was as the Regimental Colonel for the 4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Hodson's Horse. Beatty married Mabel Reynolds in 1905 and they had a son and daughter, both of whom died on active service. Sir Guy Archibald Hastings Beatty died at his home