1947 Lincoln Lions football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1947
| team = Lincoln Lions
| sport = football
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| conference = Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| short_conf = CIAA
| record = 5–4–1
| conf_record = 3–3–1
| head_coach = Manuel Rivero
| hc_year = 13th
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{{1947 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}
The 1947 Lincoln Lions football team was an American football team that represented Lincoln University of Pennsylvania as a member of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) during the 1947 college football season. In their 13th season under head coach Manuel Rivero, the team compiled a 5–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 164 to 120.{{cite web|title=2010 Lincoln University of PA Football Media Guide|publisher=Lincoln University|page=42|year=2010|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/lulions.com/documents/2010/8/9/ALl-time%20results.pdf|accessdate=December 15, 2019}} The Lions were ranked No. 19 among the nation's black college football teams according to the Pittsburgh Courier and its Dickinson Rating System.{{cite news|title=Tennessee No. 1 in Nat'l Grid Ratings|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Courier|date=December 15, 1947|page=14|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40070100/tennessee_no_1_in_natl_grid_ratings/|via=Newspapers.com}}
The team opened its season on September 20, 1947, with a game against Lock Haven State Teachers College in what was billed as "possibly the first regularly-scheduled football game anywhere between a Negro college and a predominantly-white institution."{{cite news|title=Lock Haven TC Opens Season Tomorrow: Lincoln University Is For For Inter-Racial Contest At LHHS Field|newspaper=The Lock Haven Express|date=September 19, 1947|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40599222/lock_haven_tc_opens_season_tomorrow/|via=Newspapers.com}}
Schedule
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|September 20||at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Lock Haven Eagles|title=Lock Haven}}
|September 27|3:00 p.m.|at|Fort Meade||Fort Meade, MD|W 32-0||{{cite news |author= |title=Fort Meade Books Lincoln |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81743719/the-evening-sun/ |newspaper=The Evening Sun |location=Baltimore, Maryland |date=September 23, 1947 |page=23 |access-date=July 19, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
|October 4|||{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Saint Paul's Tigers|title=Saint Paul's (VA)}}||Oxford, PA|W 35-0||{{cite news|title=Lincoln Smothers St. Paul Poly., 35-0|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=October 5, 1947|page=4S|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40598839/lincoln_smothers_st_paul_poly_350/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|October 11||at|Delaware State||Wilmington, DE|W 20-7|2,000|{{cite news|title=Lincoln Defeats Del. State, 20-7|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=October 12, 1947|page=2S|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40598786/lincoln_defeats_del_state_207/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|October 18||at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Virginia Union Panthers|title=Virginia Union}}||Norfolk, VA|L 7-19|4,000|{{cite news|title=Union Clips Lincoln's Win Streak|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Courier|date=October 25, 1947|page=14|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40599379/union_clips_lincolns_win_streak/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|October 25|||Morgan State||Oxford, PA|L 7-14|2,000|{{cite news|title=Morgan Rallies, Beats Lincoln|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=October 26, 1947|page=6S|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40598949/morgan_rallies_beats_lincoln/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|November 1||at|Hampton|Armstrong Field|Hampton, VA|T 0-0||
|November 8|||{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Fisk Bulldogs|title=Fisk}}
|November 15||at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Winston-Salem State Rams|title=Winston-Salem}}||Winston-Salem, NC|W 21-6||
|November 27|||Howard|Temple Stadium|Philadelphia, PA|L 0-29|13,000|{{cite news|title=Howard Victor Over Lincoln, 29-0|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=November 28, 1947|page=36|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40589747/howard_victor_over_lincoln_290/|via=Newspapers.com}}
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