The 1927 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the sixth NCAA track and field championship. The meet was held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois in June 1927.

Team scoring

No team championship was recognized at the 1927 event. However, the Associated Press reported that, if team points had been counted, the following universities would have been the points leaders:

1. Illinois - 17-7/10 points
2. Texas - 14 3/4 points
3. Washington - 14 1/3 points
4. Iowa - 13 3/4 points
5. Pittsburgh - 13 points
6. Michigan - 11 points
7. Michigan State - 11 points
8. Northwestern - 10-6/10 points

Track events

100-yard dash

1. Fred Alderman, Michigan St. - 9.9 seconds
2. Dean Anderson, Washington
3. Hermansen, Northwestern
4. Aubrey Cockrell, Texas
5. Wibecan, Pittsburgh
6. Lowell Grady, Kansas 120-yard high hurdles
7. Weems Baskin, Alabama Poly - 14.9 seconds
8. Frank Cuhel, Iowa
9. Ray Dunson, Oklahoma
10. Don McKeever, Illinois
11. George Otterness, Minnesota
12. Charles Doorbos, Kansas 220-yard dash
13. Fred Alderman, Michigan St. - 21.1 seconds
14. Lowell Grady, Kansas
15. Della Maria, Notre Dame
16. John Everingham, Iowa
17. Bohn Grim, Michigan St. 6. Aubrey Cockrell, Texas 220-yard low hurdles
18. Edwin Spence, College of City of Detroit (Wayne State) - 23.4 seconds (NCAA record)
19. Frank Cuhel, Iowa
20. Reay, Carelton
21. Goeriz, Hillsdale
22. William Shelley, Washington
23. Paul Toolin, New Hampshire 440-yard dash
24. Herman Phillips, Butler 48.5 (NCAA record)
25. Ed Haynes, Denver
26. Butler, Geneva
27. Ernest Knotz, Georgia Tech
28. Ben Brite, Southwest Texas State Teachers
29. Ed Peltret, Washington 880-yard run
30. John Sittig, Illinois - 1:54.2 (NCAA record)
31. Jim Charteris, Washington 3.Virgil Gist, Chicago
32. Lindus Caulum, Iowa St. 5. Glenn Johnson, Nebraska
33. Emmett Brunson, Rice Institute One-mile run
34. Ray Conger, Iowa St. - 4:17.6 (NCAA record)
35. Galen Elliott, North Carolina
36. Emmett Brunson, Rice Institute
37. Burke, Utah Aggies
38. Hooper, SMU
39. Jim Little, Purdue Two-mile run
40. Melvin Shimek, Marquette - 9:34.4
41. Harold Kennedy, Ohio St. 3. Poco Frazier, Kansas
42. Arnold Gillette, Montana
43. Ray Hall, Illinois
44. Harold Fields, Indiana

Field events

Broad jump

1. Ed Hamm, Georgia Tech - 24 feet, 1 inch
2. Joseph Simon, Illinois
3. C.B. Smith, Texas
4. McCormick, Hendrix
5. Arthur Meislahn, Illinois
6. Williams Mullins, Oklahoma High jump
7. Anton Burg, Chicago - 6 feet, 5 1/2 inches
8. Garland Shepherd, Texas - 6 feet, 5 1/2 inches
9. Summerfield Brunk, Drake
10. Geer, Doane
11. Nolder, Illinois Normal
12. McCormick, Hendrix
13. John Kingerly, Iowa St. 6. Rettig, Northwestern
14. Ted Wachowski, Illinois Pole vault
15. William Droegemueller, Northwestern 13 feet
16. J.B. O'Dell, Clemson
17. Claude Dailey, SW Texas St Teachers
18. Frank Glaser, Marquette
19. Frank Wirsig, Nebraska
20. Xavier Boyles, Iowa
21. Ralph Hammons, Texas Discus throw
22. James Corson, College of Pacific - 144 feet, 2 inches
23. Welch, Pittsburgh
24. Tiny Gooch, Texas
25. Jack Taylor, Baylor
26. Cecil Mau, Iowa
27. Peter Rasmus, Ohio St. Javelin
28. Doral Pilling, Utah - 199 feet, 8 inches
29. Jack Lovette, Michigan
30. Lee Bartlett, Albion
31. Wilmer Rinehart, Indiana
32. Dunkak, South Dakota
33. Fred Stuttle, Illinois Shot put
34. Herman Brix, Washington - 48 feet, 7 5/8 inches
35. Daniel Lyon, Illinois
36. Forest Rinefort, Grinnell
37. Leland Lewis, Northwestern
38. Jack Lovette, Michigan
39. Karsten, Northwestern Hammer throw
40. Dan Gwinn, Pittsburgh - 155 feet, 8 inches
41. Holly Campbell, Michigan
42. Howard Linn, Pittsburgh
43. Wilford Ketz, Michigan
44. Vern Lapp, Iowa
45. Olwin, Chicago