1947 UCLA Bruins football team

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1947 UCLA Bruins football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record5–4 (4–2 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadiumLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Seasons
← 1946
1948 →
1947 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 8 USC $ 6 0 0 7 2 1
No. 15 California 5 1 0 9 1 0
Oregon
5 1 0 7 3 0
UCLA 4 2 0 5 4 0
Montana 2 1 0 7 4 0
Oregon State 3 4 0 5 5 0
Washington 2 5 0 3 6 0
Washington State 2 5 0 3 7 0
Idaho 1 4 0 4 4 0
Stanford 0 7 0 0 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1947 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1947 college football season. In their third year under head coach Bert LaBrucherie, the Bruins compiled a 5–4 record (4–2 in PCC, fourth).[1] Home games were played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

UCLA was ranked at No. 8 in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Iowa*W 22–789,800[3]
October 4at Northwestern*L 26–2744,000[4]
October 11
Oregon
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 24–743,713[5]
October 18at StanfordNo. 19W 39–625,000[6]
October 25No. 14 SMU*No. 16
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
L 0–764,197[7]
November 1No. 14 CaliforniaNo. 19
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA (rivalry)
L 0–680,266[8]
November 8at Oregon StateW 27–730,870[9]
November 15Washington
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 34–743,777[10]
November 22at No. 4 USCNo. 18
L 0–6102,050[11]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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Rankings

Ranking movements
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— = Not ranked
Week
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AP
191619181719

References

  1. ^ "1947 UCLA Bruins Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
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  6. ^ Frank Finch (October 19, 1947). "Bruins Batter Tribe, 39-6". Los Angeles Times. pp. 11, 13.
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  12. ^ "2015 UCLA Bruins Football Media Guide Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). Retrieved December 15, 2016.