1947 Catawba Indians football team
| 1947 Catawba Indians football | |
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NSC Tangerine Bowl champion | |
Tangerine Bowl, W 7–0 vs. Marshall | |
| Conference | North State Conference |
| Record | 11–1 (6–0 NSC) |
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| Home stadium | Shuford Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catawba $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 11 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appalachian State | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lenoir Rhyne
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4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
High Point
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3 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Guilford | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Carolina | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elon
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2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| East Carolina | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Atlantic Christian
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0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1947 Catawba Indians football team was an
North State Conference (NSC) during the 1947 college football season. In its 14th season under head coach Gordon Kirkland, the team compiled an 11–1 record, won the NSC championship, defeated Marshall in the 1948 Tangerine Bowl, shut out 10 of 12 opponents, and outscored opponents by a total of 265 to 27.[1]
On October 25, 1947, Catawba tied (and later broke) the national consecutive game scoring record. The prior record of 72 games was claimed by
AP Poll released on December 1, 1947, Catawba was ranked No. 20.[4]
Catawba fullback Lee Spears led the NSIC in scoring with 67 points (not counting the six points he scored in the Tangerine Bowl), and the team's place-kicking specialist Lamar Dorton led the conference in with 20 point-after-touchdown kicks.[5]
Catawba was ranked at No. 117 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.[6]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 13 | 82nd Airborne* | W 44–0 | 4,000 | [7] | |||
| September 20 | Wofford* |
| W 14–0 | [8] | |||
| September 27 | at VMI* |
| L 6–13 | 4,000 | [9] | ||
| October 4 | at High Point | High Point, NC | W 21–0 | ||||
| October 11 | Western Carolina |
| W 44–0 | [10] | |||
| October 18 | vs. Appalachian State | Winston-Salem, NC | W 19–0 | 9,000 | [11] | ||
| October 25 | Elon |
| W 38–0 | ||||
| November 1 | Presbyterian* |
| W 7–0 | 5,000 | [12] | ||
| November 7 | Newberry* |
| W 39–0 | 1,500 | [13] | ||
| November 15 | at Guilford | Greensboro, NC | W 20–14 | ||||
| November 27 | at Lenoir–Rhyne | Hickory, NC | W 6–0 | 6,000 | [14] | ||
| January 1, 1948 | vs. Marshall* | W 7–0 | 9,000 | [15] | |||
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Rankings
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| Poll | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
AP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 20 | — |
References
- ^ "Catawba (NC) Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on March 8, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
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- ^ "December 1, 1947 AP Football Poll". College Poll Archive. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
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