1927 Detroit Titans football team

1927 Detroit Titans football
Conference	Independent
1927 record	7–2
Head coach	Gus Dorais (3rd year)
Home stadium	University of Detroit Stadium

The 1927 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit in the 1927 college football season. Detroit outscored opponents by a combined total of 235 to 47 and finished with a 7–2 record in their third year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Gus Dorais. Significant games included a victory over Michigan State (24–7), and losses to Army (0–6) and Notre Dame (0–20).^[1]^[2] The team was led by halfback Lloyd Brazil of whom coach Dorais later said: "As far as I'm concerned, there were only three great collegiate backs in my life time -- Jim Thorpe, George Gipp and Lloyd Brazil."^[3]

References

↑ "1927 Detroit Mercy Titans Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
↑ "Detroit Yearly Results (1925-1929)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
↑ Lyall Smith (April 7, 1965). "Lloyd Brazil: Titans' Titan". Detroit Free Press. p. 27.

Detroit Titans football

Venues	University of Detroit Stadium

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1906 1907 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964

National championship seasons in bold

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