1947 Southern Jaguars football team

{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1947

| team = Southern Jaguars

| sport = football

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| conference = Southwestern Athletic Conference

| short_conf = SWAC

| record = 10–2

| conf_record = 7–0

| head_coach= Ace Mumford

| hc_year = 12th

| captain =

| stadium = University Stadium

| champion = SWAC champion

| bowl = Yam Bowl

| bowl_result = W 46–0 vs. Fort Valley State

}}

The 1947 Southern Jaguars football team was an American football team that represented Southern University in the 1947 college football season. In their 12th season under head coach Ace Mumford, the Jaguars compiled a 10–2 record, won the SWAC championship, shut out eight of 12 opponents, defeated {{cfb link|year=1947|team=Xavier Gold Rush|title=Xavier (LA)}} in the Creole Classic and Fort Valley State in the Yam Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 380 to 53.{{cite web|title=Southern Yearly Results (1945-1949)|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|access-date=December 4, 2019|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/s/southern/1945-1949_yearly_results.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905200424/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/s/southern/1945-1949_yearly_results.php|archive-date=2015-09-05}} The team played its home games at University Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Southern ranked No. 8 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 6, 1947|page=14|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40070100/tennessee_no_1_in_natl_grid_ratings/|via=Newspapers.com}}

Schedule

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|September 27||Texas State|University Stadium|Baton Rouge, LA|W 51-0||{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/alabama-tribune-southern-smothers-texas/128182982/|title=Southern smothers Texas University by 51–0 count|newspaper=Alabama Tribune|date=October 3, 1947|access-date=July 13, 2023|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 4|at|Grambling||Grambling, LA (rivalry)|L 6-21||

|October 11|at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Samuel Huston Dragons|title=Samuel Huston}}||Austin, TX|W 31-0||

|October 18||{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Arkansas AM&N Lions|title=Arkansas AM&N}}|University Stadium|Baton Rouge, LA|W 25-0||

|October 25|at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Langston Lions|title=Langston}}||Langston, OK|W 13-0||

|November 1||Texas College|University Stadium|Baton Rouge, LA|W 35-7||

|November 8|at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Bishop Tigers|title=Bishop}}||Dallas, TX|W 58-0||

|November 15||Wiley|University Stadium|Baton Rouge, LA|W 23-0||

|November 22|at|Florida A&M||Tallahassee, FL|L 9-13||

|November 29||Prairie View A&M|University Stadium|Baton Rouge, LA|W 44-12||

|December 6|at|{{cfb link|year=1947|team=Xavier Gold Rush|title=Xavier (LA)}}||New Orleans, LA (Creole Classic)|W 39-0||

|December 25|vs|Fort Valley State|Dal-Hi Stadium|Dallas, TX (Yam Bowl)|W 46-0|1,500|{{cite news|title=Southern Sweeps Fort Valley 46-0|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Courier|date=January 3, 1948|page=13|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40443958/southern_sweeps_fort_valley_460/|via=Newspapers.com}}

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References

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