1947 BYU Cougars football team
| 1947 BYU Cougars football | |
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| Conference | Mountain States Conference |
| Record | 3–7 (1–5 MSC) |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Utah $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Denver | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Utah State | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colorado | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colorado A&M | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wyoming | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BYU | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1947 BYU Cougars football team was an
Mountain States Conference (MSC) during the 1947 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Eddie Kimball, the Cougars compiled an overall record of 3–7 with a mark of 1–5 against conference opponents, finished seventh in the MSC, and were outscored by a total of 182 to 168.[1][2]
In the final Litkenhous Ratings released in mid-December, BYU was ranked at No. 132 out of 500 college football teams.[3]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 20 | Western State (CO)* | Provo, UT | W 45–0 | 6,000 | [4] | ||
| September 26 | Montana State* | Provo, UT | W 19–14 | [5] | |||
| October 4 | at Wyoming | L 7–12 | [6] | ||||
| October 11 | at Utah | L 6–28 | 19,000 | [7] | |||
| October 18 | at Colorado | L 7–9 | 12,000 | [8] | |||
| October 25 | Utah State | Provo, UT (rivalry) | W 27–12 | 11,000 | [9] | ||
| November 1 | at Denver | L 6–20 | [10] | ||||
| November 8 | San Jose State* | Provo, UT | L 19–28 | 5,000 | [11] | ||
| November 15 | Colorado A&M | Provo, UT | L 25–27 | < 2,500 | [12] | ||
| November 22 | at San Diego State* | L 7–32 | [13] | ||||
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References
- ^ "1947 BYU Cougars Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ "BYU Football 2015 Almanac" (PDF). Brigham Young University. 2015. p. 168. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 3, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
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