[4] The team included two consensus All-Americans (John Charlesworth and Bill Webster) and was retroactively recognized by the Boand System[1] and College Football Researchers Association as the national champion for 1927.
A Yale fumble at its own nine-yard line set up an early Georgia touchdown, and the Bulldogs led by a 14-to-10 score at halftime.
[11][12] The line included two players who were consensus first-team picks on the 1927 All-America team: center John Charlesworth and guard Bill Webster.
[13] Charlesworth received first-team honors from, among others, Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice,[14] the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and the United Press.
[15] Webster received the same honors from the All America Board,[16] Associated Press,[17] International News Service selected by Davis Walsh,[18] North American Newspaper Alliance, and NEA.