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 | |
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| Conference | Southwestern Athletic Conference |
| Record | 6–6 (5–2 SWAC) |
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
edit| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 27 | Samuel Huston | Prairie View, TX | W 12–0 | ||||
| October 4 | at Bishop | Marshall, TX | W 8–6 | ||||
| October 13 | vs. Wiley | W 12–6 | [4] | ||||
| October 25 | at Arkansas AM&N | Pine Bluff, AR | W 6–0 | ||||
| October 31 | at Texas State* | L 7–13 | [5] | ||||
| November 8 | at Texas College | Tyler, TX | L 6–9 | ||||
| November 15 | Grambling* | Prairie View, TX | L 0–13 | ||||
| November 22 | Langston | Prairie View, TX | W 19–7 | ||||
| November 29 | at Southern | L 12–44 | |||||
| December 5 | at Paul Quinn* | Waco, TX | W 7–0 | ||||
| December 14 | vs. Wilberforce State* | L 0–26 | 10,000 | [6] | |||
| January 1, 1948 | at Texas State* |
| L 0–12 | [7] | |||
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References
edit- ^ "Tennessee No. 1 in Nat'l Grid Ratings". The Pittsburgh Courier. December 6, 1947. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Prairie View A&M; Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
- ^ "Tennessee No. 1 in Nat'l Grid Ratings". The Pittsburgh Courier. December 6, 1947. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Marshall Football Clubs Hit Road for Games This Week-End". Marshall News Messenger. October 13, 1947. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Texas upsets P.V., 13 to 12". The Pittsburgh Courier. November 8, 1947. Retrieved July 13, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bob Brachman (December 15, 1947). "Wilberforce Wins Bowl Tilt, 26-0". The San Francisco Examiner. pp. 24, 26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Texas State blanks Prairie View 12–0 for bowl crown". The Amarillo Globe-Times. January 2, 1948. Retrieved July 13, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.