1947 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1947 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1947 college football season. In its 11th season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 4–5 record and was outscored by a total of 177 to 139.

1947 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1947 Ivy Group football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 7 Penn 4 0 07 0 1
Princeton 4 2 05 3 0
Yale 3 2 06 3 0
No. 20 Columbia 2 2 07 2 0
Harvard 1 3 04 5 0
Brown 1 3 04 4 1
Dartmouth 3 4 04 4 1
Cornell 1 4 04 5 0
Rankings from AP Poll

On October 11, 1947, at Charlottesville, Virginia, Harvard's Chester Middlebrook Pierce became the first African-American player to appear in a football game at a predominantly white university located south of the Potomac.

Harvard was ranked at No. 93 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.

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