Captain - Coach: Bert Chadwick
Finishing Position: 5th
Best and Fairest: n/a
Leading Goalkicker: Harry Davie (40)
Best First Year Player: n/a
| Matches | Ladder | Playing List | Seconds | ||
Defending their first premiership since 1900, the Redlegs were top of the ladder midway through the year, but from there they fell apart and missed the four.
Despite a far superior percentage to fourth placed Carlton, a four win/four loss end to the season put them a full game behind in fifth. The club blamed illness and accident for the inability to repeat the 1926 premiership triumph. Only five players managed to appear in all 18 matches, and most of the club's stars missed several matches during the year.
Players were given a bonus of 15/ each at the end of the year.
The committee consisted of H. Parker, JG Smith, GG Coulter, A. Sowden, JA Henty-Wilson, CH Lilley, GH Watson, C Taylor (football club appointee)
Premiership Season
| Round | Opposition | Result | |||
| 1 | Richmond | WIN | |||
| 2 | South Melbourne | LOSS | |||
| 3 | Fitzroy | WIN | |||
| 4 | Essendon | WIN | |||
| 5 | Geelong | LOSS | |||
| 6 | Hawthorn | WIN | |||
| 7 | North Melbourne | WIN | |||
| 8 | St. Kilda | WIN | |||
| 9 | Footscray | WIN | |||
| 10 | Carlton | WIN | |||
| 11 | Collingwood | LOSS | |||
| 12 | Richmond | LOSS | |||
| 13 | South Melbourne | WIN | |||
| 14 | Fitzroy | LOSS | |||
| 15 | Essendon | WIN | |||
| 16 | Geelong | LOSS | |||
| 17 | Hawthorn | WIN | |||
| 18 | Footscray | WIN | |||
Ladder
| W | D | L | % | P | |
| Collingwood | 15 | 0 | 3 | 150.6 | 60 |
| Richmond | 14 | 0 | 4 | 134.6 | 56 |
| Geelong | 14 | 0 | 4 | 132.0 | 56 |
| Carlton | 13 | 0 | 5 | 121.7 | 52 |
| Melbourne | 12 | 0 | 6 | 132.4 | 48 |
| South Melbourne | 9 | 0 | 9 | 95.9 | 36 |
| St. Kilda | 8 | 0 | 10 | 75.3 | 32 |
| Essendon | 6 | 1 | 11 | 96.8 | 26 |
| Fitzroy | 6 | 1 | 11 | 85.7 | 26 |
| Footscray | 6 | 0 | 12 | 85.4 | 24 |
| North Melbourne | 3 | 0 | 15 | 73.5 | 12 |
| Hawthorn | 1 | 0 | 17 | 63.1 | 4 |
Exhibition match
| Opposition | Result | ||||
| Hamilton | ? | ||||
Playing List
| Number | Player | Games | Goals | ||
| 1 | Stan Wittman | 12 | 15 | ||
| 3 | Ted Thomas | 12 | 1 | ||
| 4 | Jim Abernethy | 18 | 11 | ||
| 5 | Tommy McConville | 10 | 26 | ||
| 6 | Jim Veal | 1 | 0 | ||
| 7 | Frank Jorgensen | 1 | 0 | ||
| 8 | Herbert White | 17 | 9 | ||
| 9 | Charlie Streeter | 12 | 0 | ||
| 10 | Jack Collins | 18 | 1 | ||
| 11 | Derek Mollison | 7 | 1 | ||
| 12 | Bob Corbett | 18 | 0 | ||
| 14 | Ivor Warne-Smith | 16 | 6 | ||
| 15 | Charlie Barnes | 8 | 0 | ||
| 16 | Robert C Johnson | 9 | 22 | ||
| 17 | Bert Chadwick | 18 | 3 | ||
| 18 | Percy Tulloh | 3 | 11 | ||
| 19 | Harry Coy | 15 | 0 | ||
| 20 | Les Meade | 6 | 0 | ||
| 22 | Harry Moyes | 14 | 25 | ||
| 23 | Francis Vine | 13 | 15 | ||
| 24 | Harry Davie | 12 | 40 | ||
| 25 | Peter Hannan | 2 | 0 | ||
| 26 | Charles Young | 2 | 0 | ||
| 27 | Bill Tymms | 14 | 0 | ||
| 28 | Hugh Dunbar | 11 | 12 | ||
| 29 | Jimmy Davidson | 17 | 7 | ||
| 31 | Col Deane | 13 | 7 | ||
| 33 | Fred Dick | 2 | 0 | ||
| 34 | Ernie Shaw | 1 | 0 | ||
| 35 | Richard Taylor | 18 | 5 | ||
| 36 | Bill Latham | 4 | 0 | ||
Seconds
| W | D | L | % | P | |
| Carlton | 16 | 0 | 2 | 64 | |
| Geelong | 13 | 1 | 4 | 54 | |
| Collingwood | 13 | 0 | 5 | 52 | |
| South Melbourne | 12 | 0 | 6 | 48 | |
| Essendon | 11 | 0 | 7 | 44 | |
| Richmond | 11 | 0 | 7 | 44 | |
| Fitzroy | 10 | 8 | 0 | 40 | |
| Melbourne | 6 | 0 | 12 | 24 | |
| Footscray | 6 | 0 | 12 | 24 | |
| Hawthorn | 4 | 0 | 14 | 16 | |
| North Melbourne | 3 | 0 | 15 | 12 | |
| St Kilda | 2 | 1 | 15 | 10 | |
| Round | Player | Charge | Sanction | ||
| Round 8 | Tommy McConville | Throwing ball at player | 4 matches | ||
Seconds
1927 Seconds Season
Best and Fairest - Martin Bolger
Media
The Horsham Times - 09/12/1927
The Argus - 10/02/1928
Links
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