1947 Hampton Pirates football team

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1947 Hampton Pirates football
ConferenceColored Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record7–2–1 (5–1–1 CIAA)
Head coach
Home stadiumArmstrong Field
Seasons
← 1946
1948 →
1947 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Shaw $ 6 – 0 – 0 10 – 0 – 0
No. 7 Virginia State 7 – 1 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
No. 4 Hampton 5 – 1 – 1 7 – 2 – 1
No. 11 Howard 6 – 2 – 1 6 – 2 – 1
No. 9 Morgan State 5 – 2 – 1 5 – 2 – 1
No. 14 West Virginia State 4 – 1 – 1 6 – 3 – 1
No. 19 Lincoln (PA) 3 – 3 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
Delaware State 4 – 3 – 0 4 – 4 – 0
Virginia Union 3 – 5 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Winston-Salem State
 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
North Carolina A&T 1 – 5 – 1 1 – 5 – 1
North Carolina College
 2 – 6 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Bluefield State 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
Saint Paul's (VA)
 0 – 5 – 1 0 – 5 – 1
Johnson C. Smith
 0 – 2 – 1 1 – 5 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from the Pittsburgh Courier using the Dickinson Ratings System.[1]

The 1947 Hampton Pirates football team was an American football team that represented Hampton Institute in the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) during the 1947 college football season. In their third non-consecutive year under head coach James Griffin, the Pirates compiled a 7–2–1 record, lost to Florida A&M in the Orange Blossom Classic, and outscored opponents by a total of 107 to 63.[2] Hampton ranked No. 4 among the nation's black college football teams according to the Pittsburgh Courier and its Dickinson Rating System.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27
Fort Bragg 555th Paratroop Battalion*
W 19–0
October 4
Johnson C. Smith
  • Armstrong Field
  • Hampton, VA
W 13–8
October 11at North Carolina A&T
W 7–05,000[4]
October 18Tuskegee*
  • Armstrong Field
  • Hampton, VA
W 19–0[5]
October 25Virginia Statedagger
  • Armstrong Field
  • Hampton, VA
W 16–136,500[6]
November 1Lincoln (PA)
  • Armstrong Field
  • Hampton, VA
T 0–0
November 8at
Washington, DC
W 19–1410,000[7]
November 15Morgan State
  • Armstrong Field
  • Hampton, VA
L 0–91,800[8]
November 27at Virginia Union
W 14–134,000[9]
December 6vs. Florida A&M*
L 0–719,000[10]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming

References

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  2. ^ "Hampton Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
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  6. ^ "Hampton Pirates Stab Va. State, 16-13". The Pittsburgh Courier. November 1, 1947. p. 13.
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