1927 Buffalo Bisons (NFL) season

1927 Buffalo Bisons (NFL) season
Head coach Dim Batterson
Results
Record 0–5
Division place 12th NFL
Playoff finish No playoffs until 1932
Timeline
Previous season Next season
1926 1929

The 1927 Buffalo Bisons season was their eighth in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 4–4–2, losing five games and winning none.[1] They finished twelfth (last) in the league.

The "Buffalo/Texas Rangers" experiment from the previous season was discontinued (the city's cold weather was the primary reason), and previous head coach Jim Kendrick left the team for the New York Giants. Reverting to the Bisons name, a man with the name Dim Batterson was named as head coach.

The team failed to score a single point in all but one game, resulting in a 1.6 point per game average, a near-record low offensive output. The Bisons suspended operations five games into the season and would not return until 1929.

Schedule

Week Date Opponent Result
1 September 25, 1927 at Pottsville Maroons L 22–0
2 October 2, 1927 at Providence Steam Roller L 5–0
3 October 12, 1927 New York Yankees L 19–8
4 October 15, 1927 at Frankford Yellow Jackets L 54–0
5 October 16, 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets L 23–0

Standings

NFL standings
W L T PCT PF PA STK
New York Giants 11 1 1 .917 197 20 W9
Green Bay Packers 7 2 1 .778 113 43 W1
Chicago Bears 9 3 2 .750 149 98 W2
Cleveland Bulldogs 8 4 1 .667 209 107 W5
Providence Steam Roller 8 5 1 .615 105 88 W3
New York Yankees 7 8 1 .467 142 174 L4
Frankford Yellow Jackets 6 9 3 .400 152 166 L1
Pottsville Maroons 5 8 0 .385 80 163 L1
Chicago Cardinals 3 7 1 .300 69 134 L1
Dayton Triangles 1 6 1 .143 15 57 L4
Duluth Eskimos 1 8 0 .111 68 134 L7
Buffalo Bisons 0 5 0 .000 8 123 L5

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

References

  1. ↑ 1927 Buffalo Bisons