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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]
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Conference | Southwestern Athletic Conference |
Record | 6–6 (5–2 SWAC) |
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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