1947 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team

The 1947 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team was an American football team that represented Prairie View A&M University in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1947 college football season. In their third season under head coach Billy Nicks, the team compiled a 6–6 record, lost to Wilberforce State in the Fruit Bowl and to Texas Southern in the Prairie View Bowl, and was outscored by a total of 137 to 89.[2] Prairie View ranked No. 17 among the nation's black college football teams according to the Pittsburgh Courier and its Dickinson Rating System.[3]

1947 Prairie View A&M Panthers football
ConferenceSouthwestern Athletic Conference
1947 record6–6 (5–2 SWAC)
Head coach
1947 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 8 Southern $ 7 –0 –0  10 –2 –0
No. 17 Prairie View A&M 5 –2 –0  6 –6 –0
No. 16 Texas College 3 –1 –1  5 –2 –3
Bishop 3 –2 –2  3 –4 –3
No. 20 Wiley 3 –3 –1  4 –3 –2
Langston 2 –4 –1  2 –7 –1
Samuel Huston 1 –6 –0  3 –9 –0
Arkansas AM&N 0 –6 –1  2 –7 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from the Pittsburgh Courier using the Dickinson Ratings System.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Samuel HustonPrairie View, TXW 12–0
October 4at BishopMarshall, TXW 8–6
October 13vs. Wiley
W 12–6[4]
October 25at Arkansas AM&NPine Bluff, ARW 6–0
October 31at Texas Southern*Houston, TXL 7–13
November 8at Texas CollegeTyler, TXL 6–9
November 15Grambling*Prairie View, TXL 0–13
November 22LangstonPrairie View, TXW 19–7
November 29at SouthernL 12–44
December 5at Paul Quinn*Waco, TXW 7–0
December 14vs. Wilberforce State*L 0–2610,000[5]
January 1, 1948at Texas Southern*Houston, TX (Prairie View Bowl)L 0–13
  • *Non-conference game

References

  1. "Tennessee No. 1 in Nat'l Grid Ratings". The Pittsburgh Courier. December 6, 1947. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Prairie View A&M; Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
  3. "Tennessee No. 1 in Nat'l Grid Ratings". The Pittsburgh Courier. December 6, 1947. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Marshall Football Clubs Hit Road for Games This Week-End". Marshall News Messenger. October 13, 1947. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Bob Brachman (December 15, 1947). "Wilberforce Wins Bowl Tilt, 26-0". The San Francisco Examiner. pp. 24, 26 – via Newspapers.com.
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