1947 Navy Midshipmen football team

The 1947 Navy Midshipmen football team was an American football team that represented the United States Naval Academy as an independent during the 1947 college football season. In its fifth non-consecutive season under head coach Tom Hamilton, the team compiled a 1–7–1 record and was outscored by a total of 165 to 86.^[1]

1947 Navy Midshipmen football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–7–1
Head coach	Tom Hamilton (5th season)
Captain	Dick Scott
Home stadium	Thompson Stadium
Seasons ← 1946 1948 →

1947 Southern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princess Anne			–					8	–	0	–	0
Grambling			–					10	–	2	–	0
Sewanee			–					6	–	1	–	1
Memphis State			–					6	–	2	–	1
Texas State			–					9	–	3	–	0
Mississippi Southern			–					7	–	3	–	0
Oklahoma City			–					7	–	3	–	0
Virginia			–					7	–	3	–	0
West Virginia			–					6	–	4	–	0
East Tennessee State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Catholic University			–					3	–	3	–	0
Delaware			–					4	–	4	–	0
Georgetown			–					3	–	4	–	1
Chattanooga			–					4	–	6	–	0
Tennessee Tech			–					4	–	7	–	0
Miami (FL)			–					2	–	7	–	0
Navy			–					1	–	7	–	1
CCUNC			–					1	–	3	–	0
Florida State			–					0	–	5	–	0

Navy was ranked at No. 32 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	at California	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	L 7–14	80,000	[3]
October 4	Columbia	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	L 6–13	22,000	[4]
October 11	vs. No. 13 Duke	Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	T 14–14	35,000	[5]
October 18	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 38–19		[6]
October 25	at No. 8 Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–21	80,000	[7]
November 1	vs. No. 1 Notre Dame	Municipal Stadium Cleveland, OH (rivalry)	L 0–27	84,117	[8]
November 8	Georgia Tech	Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	L 14–16	35,000	[9]
November 15	No. 8 Penn State	Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	L 7–20	25,000	[10]
November 29	vs. No. 12 Army	Philadelphia Municipal Stadium Philadelphia, PA (Army–Navy Game)	L 0–21	103,000	[11]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game