The 1947 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
team that represented
Bowling Green State University as an independent during the
1947 college football season
The 1947 college football season finished with Notre Dame, Michigan, and Penn State all unbeaten and untied, but the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were the first place choice for 107 of the 142 voters in the final AP Poll in early December, and re ...
. In its seventh season under head coach
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, the team compiled a 5–5 record and was outscored by a total of 149 to 134.
Wayne Bloker and James Knierim were the team captains.
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Bowling Green was ranked at No. 116 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.]Bowling Green, Ohio
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.
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