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. Prairie View ranked No. 17 among the nation's black college football teams according to the Pittsburgh Courier and its Dickinson Rating System.

1947 Prairie View A&M Panthers football
Fruit Bowl L 0–26 vs. Wilberforce State
Prairie View Bowl L 0–13 vs. Texas Southern
ConferenceSouthwestern Athletic Conference
Record6–6 (5–2 SWAC)
Head coach
1947 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 8 Southern $ 7 0 010 2 0
No. 17 Prairie View A&M 5 2 06 6 0
No. 16 Texas College 3 1 15 2 3
Bishop 3 2 23 4 3
No. 20 Wiley 3 3 14 3 2
Langston 2 4 12 7 1
Samuel Huston 1 6 03 9 0
Arkansas AM&N 0 6 12 7 1
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from the Pittsburgh Courier using the Dickinson Ratings System.
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