1947 Wisconsin Badgers football team

The 1947 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an

• In a game against
  punt return yards; two punt returns for touchdowns, an 85-yard return; and an average of 52.7 yards per return. Three of those record still stand (the record for longest punt return was broken in 1970).^[10]
• In a game against Purdue on September 27,
  yards per carry (10 carries for 127 yards). That record stood for 26 years.^[11]
• In a game against Michigan on November 15, Clarence Self set Iowa's single game record with 178 kickoff return yards. That record stood for 60 years.[12]

Wisconsin was ranked at No. 16 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.^[13]

The team played its home games at Camp Randall Stadium. During the 1947 season, the average attendance at home games was 44,200.^[14]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Purdue		Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	W 32–14	38,000	[15]
October 4	at Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN	T 7–7	30,000	[16]
October 11	No. 8 California*		Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L 7–48	45,000	[17]
October 18	at No. 12 Yale*		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 9–0	65,000	[18]
October 25	Marquette*		Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	W 35–12	45,000	[19]
November 1	at Northwestern		Dyche Stadium Evanston, IL	W 29–0	43,000	[20]
November 8	Iowa	No. 19	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI (rivalry)	W 46–14	45,000	[21]
November 15	No. 2 Michigan	No. 9	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L 6–40	45,000	[22]
November 22	at Minnesota		Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN (rivalry)	L 0–21	63,862	[23]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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