1947 Lincoln Lions football team

1947 Lincoln Lions football
Conference	Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record	5–4–1 (3–3–1 CIAA)
Head coach	Manuel Rivero (13th season)

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.

The 1947 Lincoln Lions football team was an American football team that represented Lincoln University of Pennsylvania as a member of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) during the 1947 college football season. In their 13th season under head coach Manuel Rivero, the team compiled a 5–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 164 to 120. The Lions were ranked No. 19 among the nation's black college football teams according to the Pittsburgh Courier and its Dickinson Rating System.

The team opened its season on September 20, 1947, with a game against Lock Haven State Teachers College in what was billed as "possibly the first regularly-scheduled football game anywhere between a Negro college and a predominantly-white institution."

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 20	at Lock Haven State*	Lock Haven, PA	L 0–19	4,000
September 27	Fort Meade		W 32–0
October 4	St. Paul Polytechnic	Oxford, PA	W 35–0
October 11	at Delaware State	Wilmington, DE	W 20–7	2,000
October 18	at Virginia Union	Norfolk, VA	L 7–19	4,000
October 25	Morgan State	Oxford, PA	L 7–14	2,000
November 1	at Hampton	Armstrong Field Hampton, VA	T 0–0
November 8	Fisk*	Oxford, PA	W 42–0
November 15	Winston-Salem		W 21–6
November 27	Howard	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	L 0–29	13,000
*Non-conference game