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
Fruit Bowl L 0–26 vs. Wilberforce State Prairie View Bowl L 0–13 vs. Texas Southern
Conference	Southwestern Athletic Conference
Record	6–6 (5–2 SWAC)
Head coach	Billy Nicks (3rd season)
Seasons ← 1946 1948 →

1947 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Samuel Huston	Prairie View, TX	W 12–0
October 4	at Bishop	Marshall, TX	W 8–6
October 13	vs. Wiley	Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX (State Fair Classic)	W 12–6		[4]
October 25	at Arkansas AM&N	Pine Bluff, AR	W 6–0
October 31	at Texas State*	Buffalo Stadium Houston, TX (rivalry)	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	University Stadium Baton Rouge, LA	L 12–44
December 5	at Paul Quinn*	Waco, TX	W 7–0
December 14	vs. Wilberforce State*	Kezar Stadium San Francisco, CA (Fruit Bowl)	L 0–26	10,000	[6]
January 1, 1948	at Texas State*	Buffalo Stadium Houston, TX (Prairie View Bowl)	L 0–12		[7]
*Non-conference game