1947 Bluefield State Big Blues football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1947
| team = Bluefield State Big Blues
| sport = football
| image =
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| conference = Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| short_conf = CIAA
| record = 3–6
| conf_record = 1–5
| head_coach = S. Walker
| hc_year = 1st
| captain =
| stadium =
}}
{{1947 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}
The 1947 Bluefield State Big Blues football team was an American football team that represented Bluefield State College during the 1947 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach S. Walker, the team compiled a 3–6 record and outscored opponents by a total of 85 to 74.{{cite web|title=1947 - Bluefield St. (WV)|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|access-date=December 23, 2019|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/game_by_game_discontinued.php?teamid=359&year=1947|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911090232/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/game_by_game_discontinued.php?teamid=359&year=1947|archive-date=2015-09-11}}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
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|September 27|at|Howard||Washington, DC|L 0-7||
|October 4||Virginia State||Bluefield, WV|L 0-26||
|October 11||Louisville Municipal
|October 18|at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Winston-Salem State Rams|title=Winston-Salem State}}||Winston-Salem, NC|L 0-8||
|October 25|at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Saint Paul's Tigers|title=Saint Paul's (VA)}}||Lawrenceville, VA|W 48-0||
|November 1|at| West Virginia State||Institute, WV|L 0-6||
|November 8|at|Morgan State||Baltimore, MD|L 0-13||{{cite news|title=Morgan Beats Bluefield, 13-0|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=November 9, 1947|page=Sports 4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41051325/morgan_beats_bluefield_130/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|November 15||{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Knoxville Bulldogs|title=Knoxville}}
|November 22||Kentucky State
}}