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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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September 27 | Samuel Huston | Prairie View, TX | W 12–0 | |
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October 4 | at Bishop | Marshall, TX | W 8–6 | |
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October 13 | vs. Wiley | | W 12–6 | | [4]
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October 25 | at Arkansas AM&N | Pine Bluff, AR | W 6–0 | |
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October 31 | at Texas Southern* | Houston, TX | L 7–13 | |
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November 8 | at Texas College | Tyler, TX | L 6–9 | |
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November 15 | Grambling* | Prairie View, TX | L 0–13 | |
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November 22 | Langston | Prairie View, TX | W 19–7 | |
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November 29 | at Southern | | L 12–44 | |
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December 5 | at Paul Quinn* | Waco, TX | W 7–0 | |
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December 14 | vs. Wilberforce State* | | L 0–26 | 10,000 | [5]
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January 1, 1948 | at Texas Southern* | Houston, TX (Prairie View Bowl) | L 0–13 | |
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- 1947 Southwestern Athletic Conference football season
- Prairie View A&M Panthers football seasons
- 1947 in sports in Texas
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