1947 Auburn Tigers football team

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1947 Auburn Tigers football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record2–7 (1–5 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumAuburn Stadium
Legion Field
Cramton Bowl
Seasons
← 1946
1948 →
1947 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 13 Ole Miss $ 6 – 1 – 0 9 – 2 – 0
No. 10 Georgia Tech 4 – 1 – 0 10 – 1 – 0
No. 6 Alabama 5 – 2 – 0 8 – 3 – 0
Mississippi State 2 – 2 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Georgia 3 – 3 – 0 7 – 4 – 1
Vanderbilt 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Tulane 2 – 3 – 2 2 – 5 – 2
LSU 2 – 3 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
Kentucky 2 – 3 – 0 8 – 3 – 0
Tennessee 2 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Auburn 1 – 5 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Florida 0 – 3 – 1 4 – 5 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1947 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1947 college football season. It was the Tigers' 56th overall and 15th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Carl M. Voyles, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Auburn Stadium in Auburn, the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of two wins and seven losses (2–7 overall, 1–5 in the SEC). Auburn was ranked at No. 114 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.[1]\

To date, 1947 is the last season that the Tigers did not play in-state archrival Alabama.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Mississippi Southern*
L 13–1915,000[2]
October 4
Auburn Stadium
  • Auburn, AL
    		• W 14–011,000[3]
    October 11Florida
    • Cramton Bowl
    • Montgomery, AL (rivalry)
    		W 20–1413,000[4]
    October 18at Georgia Tech
    		L 7–2737,000[5]
    October 25at Tulane
    		L 0–4030,000[6]
    November 1at Vanderbilt
    		L 0–2818,000[7]
    November 8Mississippi State
    		L 0–1420,000[8]
    November 15vs. Georgia
    		L 6–2822,000[9]
    November 22at Clemson*
    		L 18–3411,000[10]
    • *Non-conference game
    • daggerHomecoming

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    10. ^ Scoop Latimer (November 23, 1947). "Clemson's Dazzling Forays Beat Auburn, 34-18". The Greenville News. p. Sports 1.
    11. ^ DeLassus, David. "Coaching Records Game-by-game: Carl M. Voyles, 1947". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
    12. ^ "1947 Auburn University Football Schedule". Auburn University Athletics. Archived from the original on September 1, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2015.


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